Caffeine Freaks: Vote and Get a Buzz On!

The big day finally arrives, and after waiting in line at your local polling place, what better way to get you through a night of watching election returns than a free cup of Starbucks coffee? That’s right, the McDonalds of coffee is offering everyone who says they voted a free cup, and this brilliant marketing ploy is already generating contfoversy over its legality. But here’s the deal: unlike some other restaurants or...

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Traffic Emergency!

OK, so I’m stuck in bone-crunching, mind-numbingly inching along traffic going from Santa Monica to Century City at 5:15 pm. Totally stressed out, it was  a trip that ends up taking almost an hour. Just stupid, but typical, and pity those poor souls who have to brave this every day. Whether you scream, swear, chain-smoke, lay on the horn, talk on the phone, check email, listen to books on tape. music, read or put on mascara, it...

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It Was 20 Years Ago Today…

…that Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play. No, it was when Kirk Gibson hit that surreal, cinematic, mind-blowing, life-changing homerun at Dodger Stadium, making for one of the greatest all-time sports moments in history. Now we’re headed to the stadium for Game 5, determining whether the boys in blue can pull it out to stay in the game and possibly get to the Series for the first time in 20 years. Unbelievable...

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Haven’t These People Heard of Birth Control?

As we used to say in the news business, “You can’t make this shit up.” Just days after John McCain shocked the nation with his choice of veep running mate–that sly old dog–it’s revaled that Alaska governor Sarah Palin’s 17-year old daughter, Jamie Lynn Spears, or Bristol, is pregs by some guy named Levi. As an advocate of abstinence over sex education, guv’s girl obviously wasn’t...

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Michelle vs. Hillary: Rocky Mountain Competition

Poor Michelle Obama. She’s been painted by the right as an unpatriotic, angry black woman, but she held up under scrutiny during her 15-minute speech at opening night of the DNC in Denver, looking picture-perfect in everything from her hair to her shoes.  But Jon Stewart was right about the kids: they needed to zip it a bit.  Sure to be an embarassing, yet cute, moment for them later on in life.  Unscripted? Who knows… But...

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