For years, I've been begging my Mom to drive. She's 74 years old and she hasn't driven since she was 17. At that time she was living in Venezuela and she was driving around with friends and she accidentally ran into a police car, then she left the scene and...

Republicans are all about lower taxes and less government, right? They want less bureaucracy, less government spending, less regulation, less, less, less! Why then, after years of GOP controlled congress and two Bushes and Reagan, did the government keep growing? Why does the bloated behemoth that is our federal Government...

Homeless people scare us. They remind us of our own vulnerability. We avoid eye contact as they ask for money, as if simply gazing upon them could infect us with whatever disease put them on the street. Homeless people, we think, have given up on life. We wonder whether we...

Frankly, I didn't watch The Golden Globe Awards. Why? Because I have tried to watch them in the past and was bored to the point that dental records would not identify my smoldering remains. The fact is, awards shows are, almost without exception, dreadful; they are too long, the actors...

My mom called yesterday and said, "Do you know what just happened?" She sounded the saddest I've heard her in years. I figured one of her beloved cats had died and braced myself for the bad news. "Tony just got shot and killed."

"Tony" was Everett "Tony" Collins, my mother's...

(The following is a rough draft of former president Bill Clinton's recent "Bucket List." It was found in the trash by an anonymous source.)

My Bucket List:

1. Bounce a grandchild on my knee.
2. Bounce Lady Gaga on various body parts.
3. Curb the spread of AIDS in the...

About two minutes ago I finished my second listening to the Mel Gibson rant posted today by RadarOnline. Wow!

Not what I expected. First off, he sounds sober. Second, he sounds volcanically angry, and jealous to the point of obsession. The two minute and two second clip starts off...

We all know them, people who smugly say, "I don't watch television." Then, when you ask them what they do at home at night, they say something about "reading" or "meditating" or some such nonsense. You will notice these types are oddly unreachable during the finals of Dancing with the...

On May 10, 2005, I went surfing and broke my neck badly and have been crippled ever since. I walk with a cane. My balance is bad, sometimes I fall down. It could have been a whole lot worse. I could have been paralyzed from the neck down for life....

There hasn't been a good new rock band to come along in about 18 years, and I'm getting a little tired of pretending The Killers are rock & roll. Rock music is in rough shape when the rockingest song around is from a Kia commercial. You know, the one that...

"Tell me what you want, what you really really want..."
Spice Girls

What does Sarah Palin want? Does she want to be president of these United States? No. In fact, Sarah Palin found the job of governor of Alaska so tedious that she bagged it for the greener pastures...

Lookit, we didn't have cell phones when I was a kid. Didn't even have an answering machine. The phone rang, if you were home, you picked it up, if you weren't home, you didn't. If the call was important, you figured, they'd call back. Sometimes, if you thought you knew...

There are books we enjoy and there are books that remove the tops of our skulls and change how we think forever. The Catcher In The Rye falls into the latter category for generations of readers. It damn sure did for me. I was in my late 20s when I...