A lot has been written and said since the West Virginia primary about what recent results indicate in regard to Barack Obama's chances in a general election. Some of it's been said by pundits, in print and on television, and some of it's been said by mere citizens. A lot...

Two months ago I wrote a piece for Huffington Post in which I carefully and delicately expressed my growing desire to see Barack Obama win the Democratic party's nomination for president. The main reason I outlined in that piece was my admiration for Obama's call to action from the...

This is my tenth post here at the Huffington Post. So far I've covered my invitation to blog, media madness, the so-called "mortgage crisis," Italian vs. American sensibilities, a recent reunion tour of the super group Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, and my feelings about the forgiveness sometimes afforded imposter...

Pat Morrison, whose radio show I love, writes on Huffington Post about the recently exposed fraudulent memoir Love and Consequences, "Only the memoir sets up itself, and us, for hopes and disappointment...Does our hunger for ''true stories'' feed this phony memoir machine?...What's the difference (whether a story is true or...

I am not a devotee or disciple. I am a skeptic, and remain somewhat skeptical. Still, over the past few weeks I have become convinced that Barack Obama is the better choice for the Democratic Party's presidential nominee. And, well... God help us all if that's not enough to make...

I'm sorry to "go negative" here, but there are so many repulsive things to expound upon these days. There are minor, but not meaningless, matters, such as member after member of a congressional oversight committee hobnobbing with Roger Clemens in the days before they publicly interrogate him for possibly perjuring...

I've just completed trips to two large-scale American trade shows. The first was CES, the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. The second was the 2008 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Desert heat/mountain snow. Neon lights/moonshadow. Anything you want 24 hours a day/last call before 1...

I'm a meat eater. Not necessarily red meat. In fact, I only rarely eat beef, and when I do, it's almost always a hamburger. I haven't eaten steak in years, except to take a small bite when someone says I have to. You know how that goes: "Oh, my God...this...

My wife, she ain't from around here. She's Italian, I tell people. Or she tells them herself.

"Oh, and have you ever been to Italy?" they ask her.

"I'm Italian," she says, with as much patience as she can muster. "That's where I'm from."

"Ohhhhhhhhhh...," they say. "So...

I'd like to say something about news coverage in this country.

It sucks.

There, I said it.

Okay, okay. That's a gross generalization, I know. But something awful has happened, and the situation is far more advanced than a trend. I'm not even going to harp on...

When I was asked to start writing a "blog" for Huffington Post - "on anything you want," no less - two thoughts entered my mind. First I thought, "What will I write about?" Then I thought, "Who will fuck with what I write?" You see, I'm at the tail...