The horrific Boston Marathon bombing was a very unhappy déjà vu for all of us involved with the Olympic Park Bombing in 1996. Not only was I conducting a photo shoot in the sound tower where the bomb was placed that night, but as the chief publicist and site coordinator...

At first blush, an American heretic like me would find hope in a south hemi pope who prefers public transportation. After all, during a time of global climate and economic crisis, he chose the name of Francis of Assisi who championed nature and served the poor. Yet, a closer examination...

Each fall the last few annual Pride festivals are held around the United States. As a lifelong fan of celebrating the luscious lives and liveliness of my friends, I always look forward to October's Atlanta Pride, when my best gays fly in from around the country and I get to...

We already know what a schmuck she is. Today Palin proved herself to be a coward.

After the Tucson shooting, Palin offered a pro-forma statement of "condolences," that even conservative thought leader David Frum agreed was anemic at best. Worse, she issued the statement on her...

In the tsunami-sized wake of yet another shooting rampage, the mainstream media, blogosphere and Twitterverse have been ablaze with blame. During the first eight hours of reporting on Tuscon, the blogs and TV and radio pundits were awash with liberals pointing fingers at conservative leaders. Later there was a coordinated...

As the new year dawns, a new Congress is about to be installed, and America is bracing for the next mosh-pit battle over whether to repeal the pallid health care reform that was achieved. If one is to believe the propaganda, at issue is who is in control of your...

So much for protecting the integrity of the vote by requiring picture IDs. (Are you listening Elizabeth Hasselbeck?) How ironic that I was almost unable to vote this morning because of voter ID fraud when just minutes before I had heard Hasselbeck squawk on ABC's "The...

No, this is not an April Fool's prank. I actually do agree with Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council that conservative voters should stop giving money to the Republican National Committee. And Democratic voters should follow suit. There. I said it.

The fact of the matter is...

The first time I met The Lion of the Senate, I was not nearly as in awe of him as I was of then House Speaker Tip O'Neill. I was about eleven years old, four-foot nothing, and the Speaker was enormous to me. In truth, he dwarfed most. Being precocious...

This is not your grandfather's Grand Old Party. Now revealed as a cabal of quitters, liars and philanderers who propagandize a new brand of Hatriotism, there's nothing grand about it.

In their desperation to replay an election they lost last year, they have left no lie unchampioned. They use...

How ironic. I caught the flu right in the middle of blogging about health care reform. After two days of misery, I awoke this morning to see Tina Brown on CNN talking about how, as a Brit, she has been able to go to the doctor whenever necessary without question...

The need for healthcare reform has been a brewing storm for decades. It became an emergency in December, 2007 when the U.S. economy entered into the worst recession in seventy years because of the disastrous economic policies of the George W. Bush administration. Their policies not only inflicted a class...

As Congress prepares to leave D.C. to sip cocktails by the pool, the healthcare debate is mired in spin, slick advertising and parliamentary brinksmanship, leaving the rest of us dazed, confused and not a little scared. This is not change, and we don't believe in it.

One of the most...

Forty years ago today, I was a four-and-a-half-year-old tot sitting on the floor of my grandparents' den staring at a black and white television with rabbit ear antennas as astronauts walked on the Moon. I was so small, but I remember it all so clearly. In that single moment, suddenly,...

I never go to the beach. What's the point? I'm not going to get in the water. No way. I know what's in there. Personally, I prefer to eat the buffet, not to be the buffet.

Yes, I admit it. I have the world's most ridiculous shark-phobia. In 1975, I...

Live by the press release, die by the press release. This is one of the many rubrics of public relations that I share with my clients. If you put it out there, it will likely come back to bite you in the nether regions, unless of course you have the...

I wonder if Congressman Pete King bothered to watch the Michael Jackson memorial service today? Or did his cynicism win out? Don't get me wrong. With the Iranian people still courageously protesting their oppressors and the Chinese ethnic conflict and our brave U.S. troops still fighting on two fronts overseas...

Sarah Palin has announced her abdication of the Governorship of Alaska. If I were a citizen of Alaska, and especially if I had voted for her, I'd be pissed off.

Who cares if she feels she has checked off her personal laundry list of things to do? There remains...

Everyone and his mother's uncle's second cousin is talking about Michael Jackson today. (Sorry Farrah.) Many are blogging and Tweeting about him. Lord knows I spent several hours doing just that and simultaneously texting, calling and emailing while live monitoring CNN and finishing up my client deadlines du jour. In...

In the branding biz, there is no greater measure of success than when your name or tag line becomes part of the cultural lexicon: We FedEx a package, even if it's sent UPS. We Twitter, even if using another micro-blog service. To this end, Nancy Reagan must be so proud...