On November 1, 2006 my daughter Sophie and I became statistics. Not quite three, she joined the ‘Motherless Children’s Club’. And I became part of the 8% of U.S. households where a single father is raising a child. That was the day my wife, actor and filmmaker Adrienne Shelly (WAITRESS)…

Elon Musk, the billionaire egomaniac who’s recently made a deal to buy Twitter, caused a shitstorm this week with a few tweets essentially equating the Democratic and Republican Parties: “I strongly supported Obama for president, but today’s Democratic party has been hijacked by extremists.” That was followed by: “The far…

The phenomenon that we know today as reality television began with “Cops” thirty-three years ago (although technically more innocent ‘family-friendly’ programs such as “Candid Camera” and “Real People” preceded it). Adrenaline-addicted viewers were literally taken on a ride inside squad cars for a sometimes thrilling, often boring AF first-hand experience…

Every day I tell myself, of course Donald Trump will be held accountable for his myriad crimes and misdemeanors. How can he not be, right? I remind myself that in the grand battle of good vs evil, Democrats won the presidency, House and Senate and managed to flip Georgia and…

By now you have to be living under a rock (pun intended) not to have seen or heard about the ‘slap heard ‘round the world’. To quickly recap, Oscar presenter Chris Rock made a questionable joke about Will Smith’s wife Jada Pinkett. A reference to her baldness (which some took…

As 2021 draws to its welcome end it’s time to share my my frustration and disappointment with certain people and things… I’m sick and tired of Covid, Delta, Omicron or whatever the hell you prefer to call this life-disrupting, deadly beast. I’m sick and tired of stupid and selfish people. …

Call me an eternal optimist. Call me naive. Or even delusional. But I believe there will not be another violent insurrection of the size and scale as what we witnessed at the nation’s Capitol this past January 6th. For many reasons. To begin with, and most significantly, there’s a new…

On November 1, 2006 my daughter Sophie and I became statistics. Not quite three, she joined the ‘Motherless Children’s Club’. And I became part of the 8% of U.S. households where a single father is raising a child. That was the day my wife, actor and filmmaker Adrienne Shelly (WAITRESS)…

2020 has been an awful year. But truthfully? The prior three were no picnic either. As the year draws to an orgasmically welcome end, and as the minutes to the Donald J. Trump Reign of Terror painfully crawl toward January 20th, I confess that I’m tired of it all. …