A few weeks ago, I had a horrifying PC moment. For the first time in twelve years of Internet surfing, a terrible virus oddly named Total Security disabled my computer. No programs would open. Total Security left me in a total mess.

The price for excising the virus was $200....

I am generally a supporter of Barack Obama. I voted for him and campaigned in print for his election. However, as I turned on CNN early this morning and saw the news that he'd been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, I actually gasped in disbelief. Twitter, Facebook and YouTube videos...

To paraphrase William Shakespeare's renowned query, made more appropriate since it took place in Denmark, the big question is why there is so much furor posed in the Main Stream Media citing Obama's mostly Republican critics over the president's decision to help Chicago win its bid for the 2016 Summer...

I'm a huge fan of David Letterman's and think he's the best of the current breed of talk show hosts, even though his monologues often hit and miss. Indeed I sometimes wonder if Dave realizes he's not doing a nightclub act in front of a different audience (nationwide that is)...

I had some experiences recently I thought I'd share that may have happened to you. Experiences that cost time and money and seem designed to screw us, while perpetuating a steady flow of income for other parties. In the first case, before you remind me, I will readily admit I...

A couple of months ago, I wrote about my dismay concerning the proposed reverse stock split of AIG to a ratio of twenty to one. What was on the table was a drastic diminishing of stockholder shares to one twentieth of what they owned in order to prop up the...

While watching the president's rambling press conference Wednesday, I was jolted out of a near snooze when he made a sharp comment, saying the Cambridge, Massachusetts police had behaved stupidly. I was excited, because Barack Obama usually plays to the middle ground. Not because he's a political centrist -- he's...

For those who commented that I didn't know what I was talking about in my recent article about the AIG Reverse Stock Split of 20 to one, here's what Jeanine Poggi of Street.com said today of the split action, which has apparently gone through:

Meanwhile, investors are awaiting...

As I mentioned in another article, I returned to the stock market in March after a long absence to take advantage of the very low stock prices of large companies. So far so good with my choices, Citigroup and AIG, as both have produced good results. In spite of...

I feel sad for David Letterman, because in spite of the reasons he put forth in his latest mea culpa Monday night on The Late Show, he caved in, I believe, out of misplaced fear that he might be banished from his late night throne.

Are you as amazed as I am Sarah Palin is still invited on mainstream talk shows? I'm not talking about Rush Limbaugh or the cable religious shows, but respected venues like CNN's Wolf Blitzer's Situation Room and to chat with NBC's Matt Lauer on The Today Show.

I've been noticing over the past several years a tendency for the Media to depict racial togetherness in a manner that doesn't come close to representing reality. For example, almost every prime-time television show features romantic inter-racial relationships, most notably between its Caucasian and African-American continuing characters. While there are...

It was a surprise, though not completely shocking, that Susan Boyle didn't win Britain's Got Talent. Her performance in the finals held today in London surpassed her original rendition of the same song she sang in her introduction to the world, I Dreamed a Dream from Les Miserables and was...

I was captivated by Susan Boyle when we all first saw her in the auditions for Britain's Got Talent and eagerly awaited her progression to the next tier of competition.

I'm still a fan, but felt her song choice in the semi-finals,...

I love The Amazing Race, though reality shows reduce work for me and my entertainment colleagues. It's far more special than a recycled talent contest like American Idol (think Major Bowes, Ted Mack's Amateur Hour or Star Search) or a program like Survivor featuring repetitive stunts and ad nausea confabs...

It's been a week and I still can't get enough of the Susan Boyle phenomenon.

I've watched her video countless times and sent the link to others who might not have known. It was amazing and almost historic, because there've...

I'm not an economist, though I did get a "B" in one course at CCNY. I submit, however, that Lou Dobbs, employed on and off at CNN for many years, is an inveterate right-wing naysayer and appears to be no more knowledgeable about the subject than I am.

He and...

P.R. brouhahas regarding our airlines are now legend. First, most of them instituted a fee on domestic flights if we checked more than one bag and then, having gotten away with that, doubled the ante in only a few months by charging for the first bag as well. Soon after,...

At lunch today, a friend told me he'd just heard on the radio that Robert Anderson died at the age of 91. He knew that I knew the renowned playwright and wanted to make sure I was aware.

For those...

It seems like there've been an unusual spate of Nazi/World War II/Holocaust films in 2008, bundled together at the end of the year in a perhaps too apparent hope for the awards success that often accompanies sad, difficult stories.

We've had The Reader and Defiance, which I've previously...