Mel Ferrer Beats Obama

A highly recognized actor, I can still remember his distinctive voice, a sharp edge covered with molasses. As a student of acting myself, I still think his voice ranks with Gable’s as one of the clearest enunciation in a smooth relaxed delivery.

Politics and Sex, Vito and Laura

What is our fascination with another politico’s sex life. I bet most have liaisons sometime, so why are we so enamored with their dalliances?

Indiana Jones

Waiting for this probably final episode is like stepping back in a time machine to all those 10 cent matinees I attended when my dad was away in the Korean War.

Charles Manson

Do you know we could support over a thousand third-world orphans with what we pay to sustain this demented ape? Common, put the man out of our misery.

Brain Can Change

The violent game players, the first shooter types may be training themselves to be super soldiers in the future. Also, violent race drivers may be programming themselves to be terrible drivers. More research needs to be done.

Where’s the Beef?

I do have a memory of rubber chicken served on several flights of yesteryear. My first flight from San Francisco to Eugene, Oregon in 1952 served an excellent shrimp cocktail. These are memories of a bygone era.

Bikini Wearing Teacher Fired!

How stupid can she be? School boards always have as very narrow view of the actions of teachers under contract. That narrow view is nearly always puritanical or something very close to that. All school boards have a secret collection of “scarlet letters” still packed away in a back room somewhere.

Sandwich Island Interlude

While in the Pacific, he got into a fight on ship and was given a skull fracture. Not being fit to sail, he was marooned on one of the Sandwich Islands.

Vito Fossella and Laura Fay

Seems most if not all politicians have this undeniable need to prove themselves sexually, despite their apparent success.

From Here to Eternity

As a picture of the living conditions of the old, pre-war army, it gives a good picture of life and priorities. Barracks life was communal which drew the soldiers into close-knit, almost family groups.