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How to Survive Holiday Travel

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas Everywhere you go. See hysterical women and men Traveling once again Wishing relatives had agreed to come to them. With apologies to songwriter Meredith Wilson, as well as crooners Perry Como, Bing Crosby, and Johnny Mathis, that fractured lyric sums up the …

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Obama Takes Heat for Inaugural Speaker

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Frank Assessment Democratic Congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts is upset with President-elect Obama’s selection of the prominent Evangelical Minister Rick Warren to give the inaugural invocation. The first openly-gay member of Congress said on Sunday’s “Late Edition” on CNN: “Mr. Warren compared …

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Oprah Won't Get Fooled Again

Oprah Won’t Get Fooled Again Oprah Won’t Get Fooled Again How do we measure 2008? Wasn’t it the year of Oprah? She selected the new president of the United States, tried to start a new age cult, avoided a major fire at her Montecito mansion, her mom got sued by …

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