Laughing Matters

Tomorrow is the ninth anniversary of 9/11, one of the darkest days in American history. Everybody remembers where they were...

Last week’s column was about what brought me to Santa Monica. This week’s is about one of the odd jobs...

Until this recent mini “heat wave” we’ve hardly had a summer. Sunday, I went to the beach and the water...

When I watch the news, it often seems like the world has gone mad. An example is Steven Slater, the...

Going through a divorce is considered among the most stressful of human experiences, second only to a life-threatening illness, followed...

Wednesday night I was surfing the Internet for the latest about Brett Favre when I inadvertently came across President Obama’s...

Tomorrow marks an auspicious anniversary for me. A staggering number of years ago, I was bar mitzvah’d, which, for those...

Last week I wrote about Mel Gibson’s phone calls to his ex-girlfriend, Oksana Grigorieva. This week Gibson’s lawyers and PR...

This week, I debated whether to write about LeBron James or Mel Gibson, both of whom didn’t exactly endear themselves...

I can explain it if this brief look back at July 4 seems a bit “disjointed.” (And no, that’s not...