It was a little more than a year ago that John McCain introduced Sarah Palin to us, the final nail in the coffin of his presidential...
David Buer | Posted November 26, 2009 | Living
Use these 15 tips to prevent your Thanksgiving from getting the best of your waistline and having you struggling to recover for days to come.
1. Eat before you arrive to the Thanksgiving party -- Consuming a small meal or snack consisting of lean proteins and fiber before you...
Esther Wojcicki | Posted November 26, 2009 | Impact
Ten years ago my student, Palo Alto High '99, Gabe Fossati-Bellani went off to Princeton University to major in economics with a goal of working on Wall Street. It took only one summer of Wall Street work for Gabe to realize that was not where he wanted to spend his...
Julie Spira | Posted November 26, 2009 | Living
There's so much pressure around the holidays. Christmas ornaments arrive now before Halloween. The thought of "Bah Humbug" at the first site of mistletoe may be on your mind.
So what's a single person to do when Thanksgiving rolls around?
I have an excerise that can help minimize the holiday...
Harry Shearer | Posted November 26, 2009 | World
Now we're getting somewhere, and it's only day three of Britain's inquiry into the origins of the Iraq war, a quaint little enterprise to strip away years of political folklore. Britain's ambassador during the period leading up to the invasion places the date when Tony Blair signed up for...
Sybil Adelman Sage | Posted November 26, 2009 | Comedy
Gatekeeper needed immediately.
-Must be able to stay awake during shift
-Someone who can distinguish invited guests from party crashers
-Demonstrate ability to read names on list
-Entry level position
Salary TBD
Greg Mitchell | Posted November 26, 2009 | Entertainment
To give us some perspective on this day: Beethoven in 1825, very late in his life, wrote the third movement, molto adagio, of his string quartet opus 132, offering thanks for being alive, despite having gone completely deaf, the worst possible fate for a composer and musician.
Music lovers around...
Bob Franken | Posted November 26, 2009 | Politics
Those Humane Society commercials on behalf of neglected, abused and hungry dogs and cats are heart wrenching to me . No one loves animals more than me, dotes more on his own pets.
HOWEVER: Don't we need a similar campaign for human children? Given the new study that...
Christina Patterson | Posted November 26, 2009 | Living
One of the exhausting things about being a woman is that there's no brief answer to that social stalwart: "How are you?" In the workplace, maybe. In the street, maybe. Even at a party, maybe, but only if you don't know the person asking you well. But with a friend?...
Kathy Freston | Posted November 26, 2009 | Living
I grew up in a household of very loud, opinionated people. There were hardcore conservatives and what my father called "bleeding heart liberals" among us and everyone was at each others' throat vying to make their point. I always remember gearing up for what I knew would be a test...
Jamie Lee Curtis | Posted November 26, 2009 | Living
When I was on a double family RV trip to Big Sur this last Spring Break, when we arrived at our campground a young man who was helping us set up the two large rigs, dropped his campground manifesto on me, "There are two kinds of people. One who wakes...
Gary Hart | Posted November 26, 2009 | Green
Having chosen many years ago to live in the foothills of Colorado, and to have the opportunity to protect some unspoiled property, Thanksgiving time is always a reminder of the unique blessings of nature. Elk and deer, red, grey, and black foxes, coyotes, an occasional rare bobcat, and the silent...
During my last visit to Honduras with a delegation that included Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, we met a man named Jose David Murillo. Jose's son, 19-year old Isis Obed, was shot and killed on July 5, as he and thousands of others clamored for the return of President Manual Zelaya who'd...
Arianna Huffington | Posted November 26, 2009 | Impact
Thanksgiving always evokes memories of the days when, as mothers of young children, we would bundle them up to deliver turkey baskets -- family to family -- to those in Washington, DC who couldn't afford a holiday dinner of their own.
That simple act connected our children to the original...
Jon Soltz | Posted November 26, 2009 | Politics
This Thanksgiving, the thing that will stick the most with me is while watching football, we'll surely see the thanks to and from the troops videos just before commercial breaks. You know, the ones that have a young Army Sergeant in Iraq saying hi to his wife and kids, and...
Alison Rose Levy | Posted November 26, 2009 | Living
When your sole surviving parent is in her eighties, you think about thanks in an entirely different way --one day, one holiday, one small blessing at a time. Because you never know whether that person, that familiar face, that ongoing, deepening, shared conversation will be going on over the sweet...
The NFL has issued new initiatives regarding head trauma which include independent medical evaluations, evaluations of playing rules and equipment, safer practice guidelines and public service messages, an important moment in the evolution of this percolating "concussion issue".
The initiatives originate from recent events including:
(1) Congressional hearings where...
Brian Ross | Posted November 26, 2009 | Media
American television news is returning to its roots as an information wasteland. Pretty faces with largely empty heads read teleprompters and mug for the camera. A dollop of information surrounded by a thick sugar coating of Kewpie doll. The major difference between the evening news and Jeopardy is that Alex...
Beth Arnold | Posted November 26, 2009 | Living
GROWING UP IN Arkansas, we relished our Thanksgiving turkeys. Mother roasted them until the skin was crispy brown, and even the white meat was juicy. She admonished me and my brothers, Blair and Brent, not to pick at her beautiful birds while they were still being carved. But where was...
Huff TV | Posted November 26, 2009 | Media
If you were traveling on Thanksgiving Eve, you might have missed Arianna on The Charlie Rose Show. She was there to discuss President Obama's forthcoming decision on US troop levels in Afghanistan. Joining Arianna were Yale English Professor David Bromwich, Council On Foreign Relations President Emeritus and Board Senior Fellow...
Steve Marmel | Posted November 26, 2009 | Comedy