Opinions

Whenever we see a star like Patrick Swayze it's always through a lens that filters all imperfections. But our celebrities are not perfect, and they bled like you and I.

We live in a 'free society' that should allow its citizens the right to choose the type of healthcare they deem best for themselves.

Our current strategy to cure the obesity epidemic focuses on individual weight loss when instead we need to transform the American lifestyle as a whole.

It's not only your crazy uncle or your hermit uncle who isn't hooked up to cable, there are 70 million TV sets that receive only over-the-air broadcasts.

When the building was a motel I'm sure that a lot of topless activity went on in those rooms. A topless coffee shop is a more respectable enterprise than a seedy motel in the outskirts of town.

There is no reason why Oprah's mug should grace every cover of her magazine, it's her brains and not her homely face that is responsible for her success.

There's been more and more talk as the economy tanks that 'dark days are here' and there will be 'tough times' ahead, as if two wars, a washed out American city, and 9/11 were the good old days.

If I asked 9 out of 10 people what nepotism was they would never come back with a positive response. The hiring of family and friends, or a token patronage hiring is frowned upon pretty much everywhere.