My introduction to the FCC was in the late sixties when President Nixon appeared to use his FCC to punish CBS, NBC, and ABC for having the temerity to publicly oppose the Vietnam War.

Naïve person that I am, I continued to hope that the FCC's prime responsibility was to...

News as defined by dictionary.com is the presentation of a report on recent or new events [intelligence; information] in a newspaper or other periodical or on radio or television.

In my rarely ever humble opinion, the use of the word to describe those few moments dedicated to what...

A message for Ben Stein.

Ben, hyperbole means "obvious and intentional exaggeration, an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally."

Ben Stein's writings are like putting your tongue on a tooth that is hurting. I do not want to read what he writes yet I...

This very snarky piece came out of my annoyance with a new book written by Lee Iacocca, now 82 years old, entitled Where Have All The Leaders Gone?

Before getting to Iacocca and his book, I will first speculate about my own attitudes.

In my 78th year I fear...

My 28-year mostly monogamous marriage ended over 21 years ago. As soon as I realized that there was no reconciliation possible, I became a machine dedicated to the "business of dating."

As I entered my second year of "serial dating," I became aware of a woman who...

Alvin Paris was my Father's florist, he was also his friend, but most important of all he was one of my Fathers bookmakers.

It was on a Sunday in 1945 or 1946 that as usual I brought home the morning newspapers for my father and there on the front page...

I imagine that when man first decided a long, long time ago that there might just be a higher power that needed to be mollified in some way, he decided that paying homage by himself to whomever or whatever was not going to be enough so he decided to recruit...

It was over 30 years ago that a nearly 90-year-old Rumanian Jewish intellectual pointed out my naïveté to me.

After all, I was raised by smart liberal parents, went to good schools (once in a while) and I listened to the radio every afternoon.

Jack Armstrong, Terry and the...

America's Socialist President seized a valuable moment to address the students of our great country recently.

As part of his secret leftist agenda he irresponsibly encouraged students to study hard, set goals, accept personal responsibility and "get serious this year.''

Thankfully conservative parents stood up to the President and...

To all of you young people out there who want to succeed in talk radio or on Fox News, here are some things that will get in your way if you do them. They are: Stay in school until you finish college, avoid drugs, work hard in a real job,...

I was virtually unconscious during my first nineteen years of life alternating among rebellion, confusion, and lassitude. The Korean War and my four years of Air Force service, I believe, saved my life. I continued to rebel, be confused, but the lassitude went away.

It has been easy for me...

Bullshit is not a derogatory term. As defined, Bullshit is:

Foolish, Deceitful, Boastful language,

Something worthless, Deceptive, or Insincere.

Bullshitting is an art form that requires creativity, talent, and imagination. It requires years of practice like any other art form.

Here Come the Brides was an ABC television series which aired in the late sixties. The pilot was set, as was the series, in the nineteenth century. It depicted "the brides" sailing from New England to Seattle. In the pilot episode the young and attractive Bridget Hanley is hanging her...

This is my attempt at satire. Some of what follows is serious but most is just my fooling around.

Health care in our country was a mess, is a mess, and will continue to be a mess. Many are pleased to have it remain exactly the way it is.

The 71 year old woman I love has Ocular Melanoma with metastasis. This was diagnosed seven months ago as terminal cancer.

She relies on Medicare and a supplement to pay for her care, and she has responded well to the treatment she has received from the dedicated...

This arrived as part of an email last week.

To say the very least: I DEPLORE THIS ABC 20/20 PIECE!

John Stossel's misleading and distorted anti-Obama health plan segment features the unbiased opinions (yes I am joking) of the Pacific Research Institute.

The entire piece is equal...

Wikipedia defines this word as:
"... American political jargon that is used as a strong pejorative description of some kind of attack that the speaker considers unfair or untrue -- for example, an ad hominem attack or a smear campaign.

The term comes from the Swift Vets and POWs...

Collusion: a secret understanding between two or more persons to gain something illegally.

As a person who has watched "the media" expand in its number of delivery opportunities over the last thirty years, I also have observed its pernicious consolidation since the 1996 Communications Act revision.

I also notice in...

My primary connection to health care is my being a consumer of it, and nothing more. I will apologize at least once for having the temerity to suggest what could be a possible course of action to solve or rectify the problem of American Health Care.

This is part of...

In the late '40s, my father's dress manufacturing company was located in the garment district on Broadway in Manhattan. I loved visiting him there. He employed some very nice and interesting people. Bookkeepers, cutters, machine operators, shipping clerks, and a bunch of others. Almost always there were visiting dress buyers,...