To Jenny McCarthy, Gwyneth Paltrow and all celebrities who make baseless claims to promote health, beauty and anti-aging nostrums, understand this: “You are entitled to your own opinion, but not to your own facts.” Although late-Senator Daniel Moynihan’s admonition was…
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Calling all puppeteers! In anticipation of the presidency of Donald Trump, there is an immediate need for talented string pullers, aka public relations professionals. Candidates must be skilled in discreet manipulation, the art used so masterfully to control the actions…
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Every new year we make resolutions; and have a chance to make things right. So for this upcoming year let’s all agree to save valuable time by saying “twenty-seventeen.” Instead of the cumbersome “two-thousand-seventeen,” that is. If the simplicity and…
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Not only have you left and gone away, Joe DiMaggio, you seem to have taken the virtue of humbleness with you. “Culture changes in ways that are both superficial and profound,” writes David Brooks in The Road to Character. The…
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Like all epiphanies, the idea to learn to play the harmonica came to me while stuck in L.A. freeway traffic. What an incredible waste of time, I would think as traffic inched along. I should be doing something productive, something…
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Hate graffiti and the so-called “artists” who scribble or sign on, or otherwise deface streets, walls, bridges, trains, rocks and other innocent surfaces? You’re not alone. Aside from the vandals themselves, it is unlikely anyone would consider this criminal activity…
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By Stuart Greenbaum Queen of selfies Kim Kardashian West made a 448-page book of selfie photos. She called it Selfish, which can only be taken literally since she’s not clever enough to be ironic and certainly not ironic enough…
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Roger Angell, The New Yorker essayist and author on sports and culture turned 96 this year. He is living proof you can be both great and humble. His story “This Old Man: Life in the Nineties” (The New Yorker, 2-17-14)…
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This is an old story with a new plot twist: Add to Hollywood’s well-documented biases against woman and minorities a new category: older adults. More confirmation than revelation, ageism exists in the entertainment industry, according to a comprehensive study of…
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The damage is done. By the automobile. The most destructive, harmful, wasteful, aggravating invention in history. We took a major wrong turn when we committed to travel primarily by single-occupancy vehicles rather than mass transit. Instead of improving quality of…
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