A blog provides an outlet for disseminating your opinions and thoughts. Without it, your disseminations are restricted to family and friends. And when they get tired of you, your final option is disseminating in your head, the recipients of your wisdom, an audience of neurons.

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On a trip to Toronto during hockey season, I remember with excitement and affection the Maple Leaf hockey great, Ted "Teeder " Kennedy. Who wouldn't?

Okay, you hate hockey. You have no interest in a guy who played half a century ago. Anything Canadian makes you yawn. Get over it!...

Yom Kippur morning. I'm nine years old, sitting in our sanctuary, surrounded by thousands of fashionably overdressed congregants. Conspicuous consumers were wearing fur coats in September, with God, in Playful Mode, delivering an Indian Summer heat wave.

The Yom Kippur requirement demands twenty-four hours of fasting. No eating. No drinking....

Ten or so years ago, while consulting on the Al Franken/ John Markus show, Lateline - a half hour comedy version of ABC's Nightline - I had the opportunity to visit the Nightline production offices in Washington, D.C., our nation's capital - I get excited about these things - and,...

Of all the awards - and there certainly are a lot of them - the Emmys are by far the strangest. No other award I'm aware of gives out multiple recognitions for the same performance.

Peter Falk won four Emmys (1972, 1975, 1976 and 1990) for portraying the supershlep...

It's officially "Election Season" (in contrast to that two-year warm-up we recently endured). And during "Election Season", they - "they", meaning the people who address us during "Election Season" - like to throw words at us, the electorate, in an effort to control our brains and affect who we vote...

Okay, writers, how do I frame this fiasco? Is it a provocation, like in Curb Your Enthusiasm, where Larry argues that, when a husband pays for his and Cheryl's dinner, he shouldn't also be required to thank the wife? Is this an "Asking for trouble?" situation?

Or is "one...

As a Canadian by birth, the Olympics do not have the same meaning for me that they do for Americans. They mean less because Canadians rarely win anything. Our greatest achievement during the 2004 Olympics was when it was announced that the American Olympic Team had requested that a Canadian...

I know you've missed him, so here he is: my highly opinionated, and not always wrong, Uncle Grumpy. Comments, as usual - directly to him.

Hit it, Unc.

I've never belonged to anything.

"That's because nobody likes you."

Shut up! I hate that wise-ass Inner Voice.

Pixar makes a ton of money for Disney. So when the Pixar guys want to do a movie about a rodent with a talent for gourmet cooking, or an affable trash compacting machine in a movie with almost no decipherable words uttered during the first half of the picture, Disney...

Have you ever been in a stadium filled with eighteen thousand people, where you had the unquestionable certainty that you were by far the oldest person in the room? That was me, when I recently attended a Honda Center concert in Anaheim, starring the Jonas Brothers. Had the Honda Center...

I once wrote this sketch for Canadian radio. It was constructed as an interview with a man who knew where fish went in the winter.

The interview began very cordially. The interviewer was enthusiastic about the piscatorial "scoop" that was about to be exclusived on his show. In moments, the...

Another Supreme Court session has concluded, and once again, I am left scratching my head.

I'm not a dope, and I'm not an ignoramus. I took two classes on the Supreme Court at UCLA extension -- twelve sessions each, from 7 to 10 -- and I understood pretty close...

There are a lot of things I don't understand. And when I say, "I don't understand", I'm not using "I don't understand" the way Dr. M (my wife, for confidentiality) uses it when she says, "I don't understand how you can put your dirty dishes in the sink without running...

It's been a while since we've had a visit from my opinionated, but not always wrong, Uncle Grumpy. My uncle doesn't let me read his posts ahead of time, so I take no responsibility for their content. Refer all your responses directly to him.

Okay, Unkie, the floor is yours:

I may have been on the David Letterman Show.

I know that's kind of a strange thing to say. A long-running, late night television show, people have been on it; people have not been on it. But very few people say -- or imagine even -- that they may have...

I've been thinking recently about the musical comedy, Little Me, which has a very funny script by Neil Simon. In one scene, an ocean liner is sinking, and the captain's assigning his officers various responsibilities. One officer's ordered to supervise the non-swimmers. Minutes later, the officer comes racing back with...

It's four o'clock in the afternoon. I finished my work, and I turn on the Dodger game. They're playing in Cincinnati, an Eastern Time Zone game; it's seven there, four here in L.A.

"Play Ball."

I start watching - Dodgers versus Reds.

I'm happy I have a game to watch....

I have no direct experience of the practice of law in the United States. But I have impressions, gathered from courtroom movies and TV shows, from an exhaustive viewing of the "O.J." trial, from my extension classes on the Supreme Court, and from my reading. Four things. Pretty impressive.

As...

Christianity's just getting started. Their religion has twelve followers; they need more or they're in trouble. A "Recruitment Committee" is formed, their assignment: to come up with appealing reasons to entice Jews to switch over. The committee consists of two members, both once Jews, but now, Christians. There's Matthew (formerly...