Tweet Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich pleaded not guilty this morning in a Chicago courtroom to 16 charges of criminal corruption including racketeering conspiracy and wire fraud.  The former Illinois governor remained free on bond after the brief hearing in which his lawyer Sheldon Sorosky did most of the talking.  After the hearing, Sorosky told U.S. [...]

Tweet Thank you Farhad Manjoo of Slate.com for asking the burning question of the month and then spelling out the pros and cons– Do I Really Have To Join Twitter? It seems that every Tom, Dick, and Henrietta, is on Twitter.  Teenagers do it, U.S. Senators tweet during speeches, athletes do it during halftime.  I [...]

Tweet An animal attacks a zoo patron… at the Berlin Zoo.  I always assumed Germans were smart people, not the sort to jump a fence during feeding time.  Somehow this woman decided that she would get into the walled off polar bear habitat– it turned out about as well as you would think.  The bears [...]

Tweet My recent TV viewing has both gratified and frustrated me. A couple of my stories have ended. It got me to thinking about series finales in general… the good, the bad, and the painful. Here are a few that stuck out in my viewing Rolodex. Great Endings or endings I really liked… Six Feet [...]

Tweet What is the fascination with this particular form of supernatural creature?  They aren’t sexy or smart, they are just the opposite hideous and mindlessly dull.  Its just a waddling hunk of decomposed flesh wandering about.  As mystical creatures go, I prefer vampires.  They look good most of the time (my vanity stays intact), they [...]

Tweet I took my act on the road last week to the Windy City… Chicago.  The trip was part business, part pleasure.  Flew into O’Hare, which is a bit of pain because I couldn’t get a nonstop flight from LA to Chicago Midway for the dates I needed.  On the plus side, I did get [...]

Tweet Life on Mars (the US version) had the worst series end since the Sopranos or Seinfeld. (Don’t argue.  We all watched Sopranos not because of the insipid family dynamics, and they were. We watched it for a small and blown up peek into the world of a crime family from New Jersey of all [...]

Tweet Anger has been the theme of the last few posts, so let’s flip to the other side and investigate love.  Somewhere in Europe, scientists have determined that the time needed for a man to fall in love at first sight is 8.2 seconds. The longer a man’s gaze rests on a woman when they [...]

Tweet Continuing the theme of last week’s post on riots, now we’re drilling a little deeper on the subject of anger.  I learned last week on the radio that one enterprising woman has a place where you can break stuff.  Literally, you sign up to go and smash stuff to blow off steam.  I love [...]