TV commercials were always somewhat annoying, but never terrifying. They showed attractive young people at parties, drinking beer, gulping soft drinks, and singing the catchy…
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The toll booths still stand forlornly at every parking lot entrance, with no one inside. The students and retirees who handed out your ticket when…
By Carol Poster 5 June 2017 Your social media feed is filled with people reporting Fitbit steps. While the whole Fitbit fad may seem silly…
Not only is he very instinctual, but “my instinct turns out to be right”. The president said so himself, in the memorable Time magazine interview…
Eddie Fisher, Joan Rivers, Tommy Lasorda, Marlo Thomas and others remember the master of the insult, Don Rickles. Insulted uncle David L. Wolper, television…
Right on schedule, we’ve developed the great, great, greatest plan for medical care in the world. We haven’t copied England’s failing National Health, with its…
You know when I look back at photos of my great-grandparents’ generation, I can’t help but to feel a bond and comradery. They were tough.…
The January 2017 edition of Coastlines, the UCSB alumni magazine, doesn’t display a sensational sunset view, plans for a new building or honor a Nobel…
If Congress was composed of teenagers, laws intended to rein-in outrageous parental behavior would be passed with lightening speed, proving that teens are actually capable…
Though spending a month abroad could be possible, a year away fanciful, or four years in another country beyond imagining, at least two million Americans…
Even if your town has public consolation spaces where you can be bear-hugged by like-minded total strangers, that really doesn’t help PESS, especially if the…
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