Is The Battle of The Sexes Over? Your Sexual Harassment And What To Do About It

Eli Davidson, 11.06.2009

Reinvention Expert, Executive Coach and Speaker

With such heated discussion on the topic of sexual harassment, I asked two of the top experts, Barry Halote, Ph.D., and Allan Gerson, Ph.D., to weigh in on the issue.

Halloween Costumes Ripped From The Headlines

Glynnis MacNicol, 10.31.2009

Senior Editor, Mediaite.com

So it's the morning of Halloween, and you don't have a costume. You were going to be Kanye West, but the friend you were counting on to be your Taylor...

Cheryl Hines Tells Letterman About Directing Her First Film, the Adrienne Shelly-Penned Serious Moonlight

Andy Ostroy, 10.28.2009

New York City-based political analyst

Adrienne wrote Serious Moonlight as her follow-up to Waitress, and was in development with it at the time of her tragic death November 1, 2006.

Why Does a Woman Sleep with Her Boss?

BJ Gallagher, 10.28.2009

The story of a woman sleeping with her boss seldom has a happy ending - so why are some women still willing to do it?

Our Morally Superior Nation: Movies That Reflect The Corrosive Influence Of Religious Extremism

John Farr, 10.26.2009

Writer, editor and lecturer on timeless film

The disturbing, persistent vein of religious fanaticism and corruption existed in this country long before those interminable dog days of George W., as these film titles indicate.

Letterman Type Blackmail Common in Legal System

Judge H. Lee Sarokin, 10.24.2009

Retired in 1996 after 17 years on the federal bench.

So many law suits that are settled are designated confidential because they are frequently the result of blackmail and extortion, which has become an accepted and common practice in our legal system.

Top Ten Things Dave Should Have Done Differently With Female Staffers

Tom Matlack, 10.21.2009

Co-founder of The Good Men Project

7. Refused to take the Viagra

Lessons From Letterman in Health Reform

Robert Reich, 10.19.2009

Former Secretary of Labor, Professor at Berkeley

If Obama doesn't weigh in forcefully and say "no" to the hush money arranged in January for Big Pharma, big insurance, and the AMA, America's middle class will get walloped. And so will he in 2012.

'Joe' Halderman Should Shave his Devil (Van-Dyke) Goatee - NYS' Beleaguered Governor Patterson Took My Advice and Shaved! Time Will Tell if it Helps Him Keep His Job!

Stephen Viscusi, 10.18.2009

America's Workplace Guru

Robert "Joe" Halderman is the former CBS News Producer, who worked on the CBS show 48 Hours. The same news department that Walter Cronkite made so fam...

No "Glee" on NBC, Less Violence on the BBC, "Monty Python" on IFC, "Leave It To Lamas" on E!

Ed Martin, 10.19.2009

JackMyers.com Television Critic

As I watched Tina Fey promote the season premiere of 30 Rock Wednesday on CBS' Late Show with David Letterman and Thursday on ABC's The View I couldn'...

How to Live On $0 a Day: Bailouts for the Rest of Us

Lesley Stern, 10.15.2009

Writer, counselor to the nouveau poor

It doesn't really matter why you need the money, all you know is that life as you know it will cease to exist if you don't get your hands on a big chunk of cash. Yesterday.

'Joe' Halderman Should Shave his Devil-(Van-Dyke) Goatee and Imus' Son "Wyatt" Looks Like a Young Pudgier 'Glen Beck' in Training! (If the Dad (Imus) Can Make Fun of Other People's Kids, Is the I-Man's Little Tele-Tubby Fair Game?) Me Thinks So.

Stephen Viscusi, 10.15.2009

America's Workplace Guru

Robert "Joe" Halderman is the former CBS News Producer, who worked on the CBS show 48 Hours. The same news department that Walter Cronkite made so fam...

Revisiting Misstressed Opportunities

Meredith C. Carroll, 10.15.2009

Colorado Columnist

If only Monica Lewinsky had made a name for herself a few years earlier, I could have had the perfect role model. After all, Monica and I are the same age, attended good colleges, have loving parents.

Sexual Harassment: Just The Facts, Ma'am

BJ Gallagher, 10.13.2009

The issue of sexual harassment is fraught with ambiguity. It's emotionally loaded because it is so personal and intense - involving both sex and power.

Remember Privacy?

Tamar Abrams, 10.13.2009

Tamar Abrams is a strategic communications consultant based in Arlington, VA.

It's one thing to voluntarily relinquish all pretense to one's one privacy, but totally different to spill the most intimate details of the lives of others, particularly if they aren't around to defend themselves.

Free David Letterman! Newswitness News Cartoon Ep 2

Marc Singer, 10.12.2009

Marc Singer writes TV, comedy, and webisodes including Newswitness News.

The point is we gotta stop constantly judging other people's sex lives. Unless they produce an amateur sex tape. Then it's fair game. Until then leave Letterman alone!

Joe Halderman Should Shave If He Wants to Influence Public Opinion and a Jury: Maybe You Should Too

Stephen Viscusi, 10.11.2009

America's Workplace Guru

Don't goatees remind you of the devil? Not exactly a way to face a jury of your peers or a job interview. You may be in a creative field, and you think you can get away with it. It just makes you look like the devil.

No Women Featured in NY Comedy Festival! No Joke!

Beverly Wettenstein, 10.15.2009

New York City-based journalist, national public speaker, media critic and women’s historian

The Primetime Emmy Awards showed that women writers on a comedy or variety series are a rare and endangered species. Only seven of the 81 writers were women.

What Do Dog-Fights and Gloria Allred Have In Common?

Judge H. Lee Sarokin, 10.10.2009

Retired in 1996 after 17 years on the federal bench.

When lawyers speculate about wrongdoing, as in the Letterman case, and advance claims without factual basis, I wince for all of us who view the practice of law as an honorable and worthy profession.

Our Noisy Sun: Happy Solar Outage Month

Lisa Napoli, 10.10.2009

Author of "Three Good Things"

The other night when I turned on my boob-tube, there was no signal. Control freaks take heart: If you must know exactly when this might happen to you and your TV service, type in "solar outage calculator" online.

David Letterman, Married Men and the Single Women Who Want Them

Tabby Biddle, 10.09.2009

Writer

In the aftermath of the Letterman saga, I would like to follow the topic of single women having affairs with married men. Why are women dissing other women by sleeping with their husbands.