Please remind me. Which decade am I living in?

Schadenfreude is so right..We all seem to enjoy the gossip vicariously even when we don’t own T.V.s. I own one but never looked at the show until you couldn’t avoid the in your face stories at every checkout etc.

Liz, really good insight into the Gosselins. He and She are so immature and made such bad decisions all along the way. The kids need to be supported and are very cute the few times I have seen them. The answer lies in the parents growing up and behaving like real parents. That means spending time with the children and behaving decently to each other.

As for Jodie Foster, she just happens to be gifted mentally and mom did something right in sending her to good schools and keeping her priorities in order.  I don’t know about the other young actors like Lindsay Lohan but even if she is gifted the parenting lacked maturity from both of the publicity hounds.  She is young enough to get on a better path and I hope she does.

All of the answers on this site are so good and intelligent that is why I like WOW.  Thanks fellow WoWers.

A Full Life is the one you look back on when your life is almost over. The choices you made, children or childless, career or home are done. If you look back only at the mistakes and wrong decisions then it was not a full life.  If you can look back and say, "hey that wasn’t so bad". Then you had a full life whether you choose to look at it in that way.

As Robert Burns said so well."If you could see yourself as others see us You would be happy with the gifts that God Gave Us". (paraphrased from the Scots.) And I say this not as a religious person but as one who has led a life with all the good times and all the bad times.  Just live your life.

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A lot of us love to write and probably know how. but on the blogs when I look back my syntax is horrible.  Maybe we should learn from James Joyce.  All kidding aside E,B. White was one of my heroes and still is. Or perhaps stream of consciusness is the way to go these days.No tweeting for me, it is not even interesting. Do we really want to know when some actor takes a walk down fifth Avenue?

Very interesting conversation. three things stood out to me. #1 These guys are probably inadequate sexually in some way and the wife knows and stands by for her own reasons, children,family,lifestyle.

#2 Political women who have their own political agenda in mind for the future.

#3 Don’t compare us to the French.  If we wanted their life style we would have adopted the French as our role models in the 1700’s.

Bottom line. Polanski come back to the U.S. voluntarily.  It will no doubt be a slap on the wrist. Just think then you will be able to stay in Hollywood and enjoy more stays at Jack Nicholsons’ house. The thirteen year old has forgiven you(thanks to a money settlement). Why are you worrying?

I guess I  was clueless because I only became aware of class and societal distinctions after I graduated from Nursing School in Jersey city , New Jersey.  I was brought up in a proud family of Scottish emigrants who never discussed social class or ethnic problems.  As with many people  born into the depression it is a cliche but I never realized we were poor and not very well dressed etc. Moving to California and working in a Veterans Hospital I really woke up to the difference in social classes.  Also grew up in a small  town where everyone went to the same schools and there did not seem to be any distinctions.

What? Rush Limbaugh is my father. Get me Brad Pitt PLEASE!

People who give you the New York Salute when you are stopped in traffic and can’t move. They somehow want you to drive over the other cars blocking you in order for them to move up one space. What?

Very lovely tribute to a very interesting man and writer.  I never met him but did see him at a trial in Santa Monica years ago.  He was following a trial known as The Billionaire Boys Club. I am not sure if it was before or after he lost his daughter.

I then started following his general writings and later his stories on T.V.

What a talented family he came from.  I will miss him in spite of never having met him.  Thank you Liz

Levi is a post-teenager blip on the radar screen of life. Everyone who has been a teen at one time or another or who has had the joy of living with them knows that they speak before they think. Anyone ever seen "Bridezillas"?  Well there should be a Teenzilla program.  As for Sara Palin, that is old news.  We should only care about her as a possible future political menace.  But we know there is always a shade of truth in the Teenzillas’ when they speak.  Go Margo.  P.S. Sara will never be a real influence in politics again..She has found a new way to get wealthy. 

Stop talking personal stuff in front of your teenzillas. Sara is done with higher office.  Very sad.

Write a book, Go on National TV shows, Hang on the coat-tails of the Republican party. Maybe even become a spokesman for handi-capable children.  There must be a way to stay in the public eye and she will find it.

Congratulations Margo, You really know how to stir things up. I love it.

 Your analysis is correct.  Do not worry about undocumented workers or their families.  Just worry about the general population of the U.S.A.. I appreciate your opinion and your clear thinking.  But there must be a solution.  Wish I were smart enough to figure it out.No one should be vilified for having an opinion. Do not worry about the smug vilifiers.  Be your own person.  Just read and ignore…

You are 100% right.  If we do correct the Health Care and Prevention program there must be a way to pay for it. Here in California all of the taxes going to state level seem to get diverted no matter who is in charge.’

Perhaps it means more taxes for everyone.  If so then I believe it would be worth the pain. I am retired and on a fixed income and Nurses starting when I became one did not earn much money.  I still believe in expanding our health care to everyone and there must be some guarantee. First we support our troops and get them out of foreign soil as soon as possible.  Use some of that money . 

You are totally right on.  Preventative care is the key.  And I believe that complications of heart attacks, cancer, etc.  along with prevention of everyday diseases is the way to go.  I believe that at one time or another every family in the U.S. will cope with the aftermath of illnesses that could have been prevented.  This is a personal issue for everyone.  they just may not have dealt with personal or family illness.  

I wish I Had the solutions.  No one is saying Senior Citizens should lose anything. What we are saying is that the type of care some are entitled to should be available to everyone.We do not all want to go to the Mayo Clinic. 

The Government has to get their priorities in order. Lower some of the privileges of our Legislature members in Washington. Reorder the spending practices of add-ons to legislation that makes their rich or powerful supporers happy.

This down financial period will end. As a child of the depression Health Care was more available  then it is now. Mainly the medications and treatments were limited.  And the follow up expenses were low.  I do not say we should go back to the time with no antibiotics or heart surgery and medieval medicine.We just have to find a way to include everyone. No one is lucky enough to escape family and personal health issues if they live long enough.  

I do wish I had the solutions except for prioritizing our needs and Health Care is number one on the list.

I repeat.  People should not lose care, but all families as far as Health Care and Prevention should be on the same level. Prevention and proper treatment is the key for everyone.