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Updated: November/20/2009
In a dog's life, there's nothing to worry about
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WHY do pets make people lose all perspective? Why does any sweet/scary animal story in the news predictably grab more public curiosity than practically anything else in the world? Seriously, what makes us go all soft and squishy over accounts of, say, abandoned kitties, while barely reacting to significant global developments of war and peace?
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Updated: November/13/2009
Health-care reform: too big to fail
RIGID adherence to an all-or-nothing philosophy in life is a recipe for missed opportunities. Same goes for politics, as is evident by the all-or-nothing battles threatening to derail relief for millions of Americans struggling to afford health care in this country.
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Updated: October/30/2009
Nation needs to know how long it will be in Afghanistan
WHEN you're preoccupied with jobs, families, and futures, it's easy not to think of the U.S. military stuck in two war zones. It's easy to lose interest in Iraq knowing our nightmare will end even if the Sunnis, Shiites, and Kurds self-destruct.
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Updated: October/23/2009
Issue 3 a lousy gamble, not a jobs panacea
WE ARE so primed to be duped in Ohio. The punishing recession has robbed us of all perspective. We're weary of job losses and ready to grab at anything that looks like a lifeline.
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Updated: October/16/2009
Better for children to get H1N1 vaccine than not
THE parental panic button has been pushed. Not about any of the usual mischief linked to child-rearing, but about a new flu strain that hits kids the hardest. And any day now the H1N1 virus, also called the swine flu, could come to a school or neighborhood near you.
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Updated: October/09/2009
Capital punishment in Ohio needs serious tweaking
EVEN before my cousin, Ann, was brutally murdered more than two decades ago, I supported the death penalty. Capital punishment renders justice. I believed that then and now.
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Updated: October/02/2009
Polanski must be brought to justice, even after all these years
SHE was a 13-year-old kid when a 40-something movie director performed oral sex, intercourse, and sodomy on her after drugging her with champagne and Quaaludes. He was the world renowned Roman Polanski, who made such celebrated films as Chinatown and Rosemary's Baby before he fled Hollywood like a coward.
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Updated: September/25/2009
Disgraced DeLay dances back on America's radar
TOM DeLay was, as an apoplectic dance judge sputtered, "crazier than Sarah Palin!" I don't usually watch ABC's Dancing With the Stars - OK, I've never watched it - but I couldn't miss the dancing fool touted as the program's "highest-ranking star."
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Updated: September/18/2009
Grand Old Party in danger of being the Game-Over Party
TO DISMISS all the "tea party" protests, parades, and rabble-rousing during the past few weeks as just so much more "weirdness of the wing-nut summer," as one blogger put it, is tempting. But the multifaceted - some would say incoherent - demonstrations of fear-based anger signal a more worrisome development in the political dynamics of the country.
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Updated: September/11/2009
Obama debate shows how far we've come since 9/11
IN THE immediate aftermath of 9/11, eight years ago today, we were countrymen first, conservatives or liberals a distant second. I saw the nation coalesce like never before in my lifetime. We were all Americans, determined to persevere and avenge ourselves on those with the gall to attack us.
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Updated: July/10/2009
Sarah, the erstwhile barracuda, has gone fishin’
WHEN the going gets tough the tough go fishing. That’s right, isn’t it? No. If it’s too hot, get out of the kitchen — and then go fishing for something less intense and more suitable to a rising star too big for small-stage Alaska. That’s it.
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Updated: July/03/2009
Addiction to latest celebrity news can't be denied
BETWEEN you and me, I can't get enough of the Michael Jackson mania. If you whisper a word of my consuming interest, I'll deny it. Same thing about the Jon and Kate carnage. I have to read every he-said, she-said - discreetly, of course.
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Updated: June/26/2009
Ohio politicians face big decisions as D-Day nears for budget cuts
THE recessionary ball rolling down the hill is turning into an avalanche that is burying us all. Brace yourself, Ohioans, the ramifications from the mortgage mess and banking excesses of Wall Street have come home to roost in state capitals nationwide, and there’s no escaping the pain.
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Updated: June/19/2009
Trumped-up Palin-Letterman debate worked
THE phony controversy between David Letterman and Sarah Palin served them both well. It boosted the comedian's ratings on the CBS Late Show and gave the Palin national brand a boost when the spotlight on the Alaska governor was dimming. That's what it was all about anyway, right?
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Updated: June/12/2009
For eye-opening experiences, simply walk the dog
MY morning treks around town with the beast have gone on summer hiatus. With school out, the early rituals of peaceful solitude with the puppy - who now resembles a small bear - won't be the same until fall.
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Updated: June/05/2009
Will the real Dick Cheney please stand up?
OMG. Did we totally misread the former veep from the dark side of the Bush administration? Is it possible he is not the sinister, snarling, soulless evildoer we have come to know and abhor? Could it be, as some on the left are venturing to opine, that the bitter old man determined to defend the indefensible of the last eight years, is actually more progressive that President Obama on something?
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Updated: May/29/2009
Sotomayor would bring new dynamic to high court
HER honesty may get her in trouble with right-wing ideologues itching for a fight, but I thought it was refreshing. Federal appeals Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's first Supreme Court nominee, acknowledged that her gender and ethnicity color her outlook on life and no doubt affect her judicial decision-making.
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