While everyone is trying to figure out what happened in the jury room, the problem in the Spector case goes much deeper and involves the women who testified about Spector's violent past - and the men who didn't.

Yours truly was one of several featured participants in a real-time, online discussion of Wednesday night's debate between Democratic contenders for the White House.

All across TV Land, from "House" to "Desperate Housewives," actresses are doing what is known in the theater world as "mask work" -- where they must express through their bodies what can no longer be read in the face.

In this era of hothouse child-rearing, to question achievement-oriented education is close to heresy.

Who is this prolific writer who enjoyed the company of women, got in a tussle now and then, and consumed more than two glasses of wine at fireside each evening?

The 101st Airborne escorted nine black students to an all-white high school.

Saturday's changing weather

Let's say Charles Bukowski is still shaking LA's literary landscape. Then what in God's name are poetic giants like Maya Angelou doing to it, and when is the literary arm of FEMA going to get here?

Idleness is the Devil's workshop.

There is a pox on my neighborhood. A quick count reveals there are no fewer than twelve rapist/pedophiles between my house and the mall.

Lots of birds and rushes and even big fish. I only capsized 4 times. I traversed one set of rapids on a floating mattress.