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That Age Mocking Super Bowl Ad

Okay, maybe I've lost my sense of humor in my late seventies but there's one Superbowl ad that I hated, and it's the one that is getting the most attention. It featured the elderly but ever game Betty White as a football player who gets tackled and ...

From SHERMAN YELLEN, Huffington Post,  8 Feb 2010
Related Topics: Carol Channing,  Betty White,  Mike Tyson,  Abe Vigoda

The Enemy Within: The Supreme Court Declares War Against the American People

There is nothing a shoe bomber or a terrorist on a jihad could do that would endanger and destroy our democracy as much as the Supreme Court has done yesterday in its decision to allow corporations unlimited means to influence political outcomes ...

From SHERMAN YELLEN, Huffington Post,  22 Jan 2010
Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Samuel Alito,  Osama bin Laden,  Fritz Lang,  U.S. Congress

Sherman Yellen: Leno, Conan, Simon and Me. Who Gives a Damn?

In 1994 I was living in Los Angeles during the Northridge earthquake. One side of my house fell over taking the brick fireplace down with it, and the staircase collapsed leaving my wife and I trapped in our upstairs bedroom. Somehow we got through it ...

From SHERMAN YELLEN, Huffington Post,  15 Jan 2010
Related Topics: American Idol,  George W. Bush,  New York Times Company,  Jeff Zucker,  Barack Obama

Sherman Yellen: Mixed Signals in GOP Terrorland

Lately, like so many of President Obama supporters I've felt genuinely aggrieved by the administration's failure to force the banks to give up their risky stock dealings, their brazen bonuses, and stick to guarding those savings accounts and making ...

From SHERMAN YELLEN, Huffington Post,  10 Jan 2010

Sherman Yellen: Hope for Esperanza in 2010

Today, right before the New Year begins, Esperanza and her two daughters came to visit my wife and me in our New York apartment. Thirty four years before today's visit, Esperanza was a runaway from a South American embassy in Manhattan that had ...

From SHERMAN YELLEN, Huffington Post,  30 Dec 2009
Related Topics: Ivy League,  Malcolm Gladwell,  F. Scott Fitzgerald,  Lou Dobbs

Sherman Yellen: Joe Lieberman and Tiger Woods: The "Self-Insured"

It is remarkable to me that this country is so obsessed by the sexual infidelities of a golfer, Tiger Woods, which affects no one but his immediate family, his rich sponsors, and a tabloid crazy press, while Joseph Lieberman, the Senator from ...

From SHERMAN YELLEN, Huffington Post,  17 Dec 2009
Related Topics: Tiger Woods,  Joe Lieberman,  Rupert Murdoch

Sherman Yellen: Sarah Palin: Our First Deather

So you're sick and tired of the birthers, those who claim that Obama was born on the planet Zohar and does not meet the Constitution's born in America qualifications for the presidency. Well folks, I propose an entirely new group for you to deal with -- ...

From SHERMAN YELLEN, Huffington Post,  6 Dec 2009
Related Topics: Sarah Palin,  Barack Obama,  Glenn Beck,  Rush Limbaugh,  Sean Hannity

Sherman Yellen: In Praise of Bad Cooking and Good Mothers: A Thanksgiving Memory

I've never been a big fan of Halloween -- I don't scare easy and I don't believe in ghosts, not the spooky kind. Ah, but Thanksgiving! My favorite holiday; one filled with the real ghosts of my childhood. My mother Lilly -- movie star beautiful, ...

From SHERMAN YELLEN, Huffington Post,  12 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Noel Coward,  Norman Rockwell,  New York Times Company,  Martha Stewart

Sherman Yellen: Why I Voted Against Michael Bloomberg (It Wasn't the 3rd Term Folly)

When I say I am an old New Yorker you can take that literally. I was born under Mayor Jimmy Walker in 1932, the year Walker fled the investigators of his corruption, and I grew up under the great Fiorello LaGuardia, who saw us through the Depression ...

From SHERMAN YELLEN, Huffington Post,  4 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Michael Bloomberg,  Jimmy Walker,  U.S. Republican Party,  Columbia University,  Bank of America

Murder by Mortgage

It seems I've known Molly forever, at least for the fifty six years that I have been married to my wife. My wife met Molly in high school, where they suffered the terrors of Mme. Farley's French class together. They became close friends: Molly, the ...

From SHERMAN YELLEN, Huffington Post,  9 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Louis XIV (musician)

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