A big thank you to Movies, Silently,  an excellent blog that I like to read which explores silent films(did you know that Hopalong Cassidy was a silent film hunk before he was a cowboy hero to baby boomers?)  Movies, Silently has nominated me for the Super Sweet Bloggers Award!  I was very surprised and humbled to receive this nomination.  It’s a nice affirmation to know that other bloggers are reading your work and appreciating it.

It’s that time. If you’re a teacher in a school with a large concentration of Hispanic students, you’re doing end-of-year reviews and preparing for final exams -- and you have kids trickling up to you to let you know they won’t be around for them. This also happens at the beginning of the school year and during the holidays as parents take their children out of classes for long family trips. But I can tell you from first-hand experience that there’s nothing worse than...

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Dancing with the Stars crowns its Season 16 winner! But before that happens, one couple falls achingly short in fourth place and the top three duke it out one last time with the Instant Dance. Who took home the Mirrorball ...

Dancing with the Stars crowns its Season 16 winner! But before that happens, one couple falls achingly short in fourth place and the top three duke it out one last time with the Instant Dance. Who took home the Mirrorball ...

Some weeks it’s tough to keep up spiritually and emotionally with all that swirls around us. In the last couple of days we’ve seen images of devastation coming out of Oklahoma. We continue to be pummeled with disheartening world news and violence in our communities, even as many of us are still trying to process […]

One of the things I like the most about the beer world is there is a sense of community – those who work at various breweries seem to really get along with each other and seem united against the big boys of brewing.However, being a brewery is still a business. The people who own and work at the breweries must protect their interests and sometimes that involves lawyers.

THIS is pretty interesting:

Haddon passed away May 10 in Santa Monica, Calif., due to complications from Lewy body disease, a form of dementia.Haddon got his start in entertainment as a stage and live TV actor in the late 1950s after serving as a ...

Haddon passed away May 10 in Santa Monica, Calif., due to complications from Lewy body disease, a form of dementia.Haddon got his start in entertainment as a stage and live TV actor in the late 1950s after serving as a ...

 David Sirota NAILS IT:

When you are going on TV to promote your book, you expect that you will be talking about…

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The man SAYS the GOP needs greater diversity:

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Why am I not surprised that the silly 1984 fantasy “Red Dawn” (above) tops THIS LIST?

Gene Robinson has a strong piece today about the accelerating trend toward investigating and prosecuting journalists under the 1917 espionage act. That’s the law under which the AP phone records were subpoenaed and under which Fox News reporter James Rosen was secretly targeted.

Two major public-opinion polls released this week have lots of good news for President Obama and lots of bad news for the Republican Party.

Well, when the doc says you will get nerve and joint pain in all your big/major joints… he wasn’t lying. Today it’s my hip and is almost unbearable. I can’t walk, and can barely even move. I’m not sure how much more I can take.