Hollywood, America's greatest modern contribution to world culture, is a business, a religion, an art form, and a state of mind.

In the real world, very smart people fail and mediocre people rise. Part of what makes people fail or succeed are skills that have nothing to do with IQ. Also, the idea that intelligence can be gauged by an IQ test is erroneous.

A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.

And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the 'mob' - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.

The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.

My problem is that I do not get along with lesbians at all. They don't like me, and I don't like them.

Bisexuality is our best hope of escape from the animosities and false polarities of the current sex wars.