From classic character roles to MARY TYLER MOORE to the bridge of THE LOVE BOAT, Gavin MacLeod has entertained TV audiences for decades and his stint as Captain Stubbing is...
My mother would have turned 90 on Sunday, if she had lived. Instead, she’s been gone for more than 34 years. I’ve lived more of my life without her than...
@farmer_whitney (Twitter/FLICKR) or farmerwhitney (Instagram) and Facebook #edcmooc #edcmooc3 #edcmooc.rocks #iLoveGypsies Note: The University of Edinburgh’s MOOC “Digital Cultures and E-Learning” begins on Sunday night, midnight GMT. The course is...
Last winter, what with the heavy snow and the darkness and my particular brain chemistry, I turned into something of a hermit. If I didn’t have to leave the house,...
@farmer_whitney (Twitter/FLICKR) or farmerwhitney (Instagram) and Facebook #iLoveGypsies We had only been settled into the Gypsy camp for a few hours when the gendarmes arrived and told the community we...
When I decided to write about the episode known in the media as #GamerGate, I called my son to make sure I wasn’t completely misreading it. I know relatively little...
@farmer_whitney (Twitter/FLICKR) or farmerwhitney (Instagram) and Facebook Whitney Farmer – McLane High School Class of 1982 – miraculously has an M.B.A.… Arno Strasser was beautiful. He was the best reason...
One classically right-wing premise that has always interested me is this (at least as I understand it): Taxes should be kept low, especially on the wealthy, because they are better...
@farmer_whitney (Twitter/FLICKR) or farmerwhitney (Instagram) and Facebook Whitney Farmer graduated from McLane High School, Class of 1982, but occasionally dated the ‘81s. Tim had plans to make me a starlet...
Silly boy ya, self-destroyer. / Paranoia, the destroyer / Self-destroyer, wreck your health / Destroy friends, destroy yourself / The time device of self-destruction / Light the fuse and start...
Perhaps this won’t shock you as much as it shocked me, but I’m still reeling. It seems that the world does not revolve around me. Let’s consider the implications. My...
These are the Days of Awe, the time between Rosh Ha’Shonah and Yom Kippur, when Jews are supposed to look back over the last year and atone for their sins....
If the response to they first episode is any indicator, CBS TV’s SCORPION might be they first big hit of the new TV season. We talk to the show’s stars,...
There’s a new domestic violence scandal in the National Football League. This is in addition to Ray Rice beating his fiancee (now wife) in an elevator, and Adrian Peterson beating...
If you were to conduct a survey that tried to determine which groups of people are the most hated right now, you’d doubtlessly select “Muslims” for that vaunted “11,” right?...
