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I am a writer, media analyst, and psychotherapist. I'm interested in comedy, satire, politics, entertainment, pop culture, and business; exposing how the media powerfully spins the news we hear, and how this spin creates our feeling states and directs the way we live!
I want to resurrect intelligence(aka thinking),connection, personal engagement with life; making it fun to nail the truth inside the official news stories.
I translate what passes as news in media broadcasts. It's time to wake up!
(4 comments) SHARE Sunday, February 10, 2013 Remembering Whitney Houston: The Quiet Curse of the Homophobic Mother
On the anniversary of Whitney Houston's death, an acknowledgement of the truth of her life and why she destroyed herself is a worthy tribute to this brilliantly talented, tormented soul.
(5 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 23, 2017 Death By Social Media
We have traded our independent thought and life experience for the promotion of the social media lie. We must wake up to this! Series: Prison (38 Articles, 90728 views), Judy White (19 Articles, 50721 views)
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, May 1, 2017 Grabbing Power (and Humor) by the "Pu**y"
We live in a country where freedom is under siege by our president-elect. Trump has created a quick shift from the potential of our freedoms to the likelihood of fascist tyranny. As the Trump novelty wears off, let us be awake and take positive action.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, April 10, 2015 I Love Me!: New Stories For Children
The world is a tougher place than ever for children to learn to thrive emotionally and grow to be healthy adults. Books that help children learn self-respect, and encourage the ability to know the self and learn to love are rare and needed. Here are 2 examples.
(5 comments) SHARE Saturday, December 9, 2017 Franken "Trauma" Vs The Real Thing
Trauma is a real, specific event where there is serious psychic damage. Al Franken's actions have no connection to sexual abuse and any resulting trauma. We have lost our good Senator and our minds here in America.
(14 comments) SHARE Friday, February 11, 2011 Arianna Huffington: The Cookie Who Cares
Analysis of the AOL-HuffingtonPost merger/acquisition. What does Arianna Huffington have in mind for her role in the future of journalism? Rather than being "sold out", could the HuffingtonPost marriage with AOL ignite more intelligence in the media?
(5 comments) SHARE Sunday, June 10, 2012 Facebook for Dummies: What Were You Thinking?
Facebook hacking, the meaning and impact of social media as a replacement for true knowing of self and real relationship with others.
(14 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 5, 2015 The Trumping of Real Over Unreal
Why is Donald Trump so popular? Why is he a viable candidate for president of the United States?
We must look deeper into the American psyche to understand his appeal.
(15 comments) SHARE Sunday, May 12, 2013 To the Motherless on Mother's Day--Part 2
Not everyone has a mother to celebrate on Mother's Day. For those who have mentally ill or abusive mothers, this is a sad, even bizarre, holiday.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, June 20, 2014 What Would John Kennedy Do?
President Kennedy successfully averted a nuclear war during his presidency. Can we learn from his example?
(6 comments) SHARE Friday, August 17, 2012 Give It Up for Joan Rivers
Originality everywhere is vanishing. In the arts, specifically in comedy, I believe no one does it better than Joan Rivers.
Laughter is the medicine we desperately need.
(14 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 30, 2016 Can I Vote for Hillary and Still Have An Inquiring Mind?
We must be free to question any candidate. The lack of questions in the media about Hillary and the defensiveness of her supporters is cause for discussion. To support Hillary requires daring to speak out and question more.
(15 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 17, 2013 Santa Monica Fascism Alert
How do we explain the true meaning of pop-up checkpoints for DUIs and the pulling over of random innocent drivers? This happened on Friday August 16, 2013 in Santa Monica, California. What is the truth behind the invasive behaviors of police checkpoints? Is this correct procedure or the trial runs of a more fascist society?
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, June 2, 2013 You Don't Have To Be Jewish: Putzel, the Movie
Putzel is an exceptional new movie that delivers a much-needed uplift; a rare example of the nearly lost art of emotionally moving narrative film making. A valuable antidote to these treacherous times.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, August 14, 2016 Trust, Suspicion, and Facebook
What purpose does Facebook serve and how do people incorporate Facebook into their lives?
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, November 2, 2013 The Educated Uneducated: Is the World Too Much With Us?
It is important to know and understand the world outside of America. However, is world news becoming a distraction taking us away from facing our own lives?
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 2, 2015 Turning the Page On Hatred and Commercial Christmas "CaCa"
Listen carefully and you will hear more and more people turning away from hatred, and specifically Republican rhetorical insanity. This political and commercial holiday season is turning out to be a surprising one.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, July 18, 2016 Breaking News: Love Heals the World
In this disheartening time, we would do well to study love and apply love to our personal world. This is a crucial step toward spreading love as a way of being, which may impact the larger world, in its expression of division and hate. It's a worthy start.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, June 23, 2013 The Quiet, Powerful Courage of Lambda Legal
Lambda Legal is an organization at the forefront of gay liberty.
The 40th anniversary of Lambda Legal was celebrated on June 13, at the West Coast Liberty Awards.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, January 25, 2015 Turning the Other Cheek is Bad for Your Other Cheek: President Obama's Brilliant Moment
During his State of the Union speech,President Obama displayed an admirable evenness and balance during the Republican applause of his leaving the office in two years. I am more open to his achieving positive results for everyone in this country.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 12, 2012 Siri, Say It Ain't So
Introducing the robot girl voice of Siri, Apple iphone's new friend substitute for the lonely American.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, May 11, 2014 Mother's Day: The Good Child
Mother's Day is not for everyone. It certainly is not a day of celebration for those children, young and old, who have survived a mentally ill mother.
(5 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 21, 2014 Oh No! The #1 Reality Television Side Effect
Is reality television maiming the mind, depressing our mental functioning, erasing the brain? I say, "Yes!", to all of the above.
Please remember: this is an opinion piece. My opinion, (and my imagination).
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, November 22, 2013 The 50th JFK Assassination Anniversary and the Power of Questioning
On this 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination, let us not stop asking for the truth of what really happened. We need to speak out and question those events in our country and our lives that are not truthfully exposed.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, December 5, 2014 Come Home for the Holidays
This is my holiday challenge for all of us: To hold onto our minds and take ownership and responsibility of who we are and how we independently think and feel.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 28, 2010 Don't Ask, Don't Live
The anti-gay truth that lies beneath Obama's political words.
(5 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 1, 2012 Clint Eastwood: Don't Quit Your Day Job
The Republican convention ended with Presidential nominee Mitt Romney and his opening act, Clint Eastwood.
An embarrassment for all.
(5 comments) SHARE Saturday, June 29, 2013 Paula Deen's Damage Control
The controversy over Paula Deen is important because it reveals that we are not living in a post-racial world. Racism is leaked occasionally yet remains alive undercover today.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 2, 2013 To the Motherless on Mother's Day
Not all adult children have mothers to celebrate on Mother's Day.
This is to acknowledge their plight.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 10, 2012 40 Is The New 70
Ageism is rampant in advertising, and no one seems to care.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, June 21, 2012 Eating Is Dangerous
Food crisis in America. Healthy foods becoming hazardous with higher levels of toxicity and genetically modified for financial gain.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, May 13, 2012 Obama's Accidental Heroism
Obama's announcement on ABC in support of gay marriage was specifically driven by the threat of losing the gay voting block as well as the vice president and the secretary of education publicly supporting gay marriage days earlier.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, December 14, 2012 Como Estas La Casa?
What do the events of the grade school killing in Connecticut and the report that Los angeles real estate is up 19% have in common?
This is our world today.
What is really going on?
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 8, 2012 Hillary Clinton's World Affairs
Hillary Clinton stands in for all Americans who remain ignorant of the affairs of the world outside their lives.
The world news overwhelms us with nightly violence involving places we know nothing about.
Our ignorance is a problem.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, January 11, 2013 Whoops, There He Goes Again
President Obama has once again shown his true sentiments against gay rights and homosexuals in his choice of Pastor Louie Gigilio for the upcoming Presidential Inauguration.
(5 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 6, 2014 The Power of Support
What would our world be like if we bothered to connect with other people?
A much less depressed society.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 4, 2012 July 4th and the Renovation of America
America is under construction.
We have the freedom and the right to notice this and ask about it.
Let's celebrate July 4th this way.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, December 1, 2012 Baby, It's Cold Outside
What is our real life experience beneath the Christmas hype and false news of a prosperous holiday season?
What is the truth of the state of our lives?
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 24, 2012 Health Alert
We baby boomers are responsible for taking our health into our own hands, beyond the medical expertise of professionals.
How we strike a balance is the key to better living.
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, April 20, 2013 What Are We Adults Telling Ourselves About Boston?
Adults are called upon to soothe children in the aftermath of terrorism in America. How are American adults responding to the Boston bombings?
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, November 5, 2012 The Morning After
The Morning After the Election: Will we have a political Sandy, Part 2?
Or has everyone gone back to sleep in the wake of "no hope" candidates?