When I was a contributing editor for the National Lampoon in its early years, we did a pornography issue with the heading: Pornography: Threat or menace?
It’s in that spirit that I now wonder about Joe Biden, who seems on the path to becoming our next vice-President. Never much of a fan of his, I now have to ask, “Joe Biden: Dumb or stupid?”
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Mr. Blackwell, who yearly created a worst-dressed list of celebrity women and sometimes men, has died from complications of an intestinal infection at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
Blackwell’s acerbic criticisms of celebrity fashion spared no one. Madonna was “The Bare-Bottomed Bore of Babylon,” Meryl Streep “Looked like a gypsy abandoned by a caravan” and Patti Davis packed “all the glamour of an old, worn-out sneaker.”
if Obama is elected president.
Despite the Kumbaya marmalade being spread across the country, Obama as president will not soften tensions between blacks and whites, as well as among other players in the race and victim industries. There will not be the post-racial understanding his election is expected to bring.
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Many years ago, when I was beginning my career as a television writer, Norman Lear launched his now famous All In the Family sit com, featuring the bigoted Archie Bunker.
While surfing the web recently I came across a 2004 story which reported that in Montreal, there had been a decrease in the prevalence of drug resistance in HIV-1 transmitters among men who have sex with men.
Any positive report about this terrible disease is a welcome oasis in the desert of bad news about AIDS, but in reading further, a similar decrease had not occurred among men having sex with men in other parts of Canada, specifically Ontario and Vancouver.
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