I am no expert on Arizona politics but I have visited there several times and my father and stepmother go to their house there all the time. It's...sad, I guess, that Arizona has been cast in the role of this super-conservative, xenophobic area. I can't say how accurate that is but I will say at least the Sedona area is a mixture of very ( Read more... )

I think it's really depressing when, in the first wave of reaction to this horrible event yesterday, there's more attention paid to the so-called "finger pointing" and "blame" than to, you know, six people who were murdered in cold blood and how a political system was hijacked yesterday. Because let's remember who the real victims are here--ranty ( Read more... )

I have to say, I find the recent revelation that the "study" linking MMR vaccination with autism to be so terribly sad. I'm not particularly surprised that the study is a fake--it just seemed so obvious that the science was fishy, although I thought the guy behind the original paper, Wakefield (no longer a doctor now) was just being sloppy, not ( Read more... )

Ann Richards, former Governor of Texas, died.I thought she was terrific. I still remember her ad a couple of years later after her defeat for re-election, when she was talking about the Cowboys and I guess they'd been losing or they lost the Super Bowl, and she said ruefully "they always won when I was Governor." What a great sense of humor. She ( Read more... )

My knee looks bad--it's considerably swollen. I have no idea what happened but I'm putting ice on it for awhile. Julie let me go early from rehearsal, as I was gimping around the studio feeling like Tiny Tim, so I can kick back and rest for a little while ( Read more... )