The stigma of the prostitute is the badge of her identity. That is why the client goes to her. If he wanted someone without a stigma, he'd go and screw the lady next door.

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman.

Male urination really is a kind of accomplishment, an arc of transcendance. A woman merely waters the ground she stands on.

Considering the popularity of soaps with the African-American audience, it's grotesque that the entertainment industry, for all its vaunted liberalism, is lagging so far behind social changes in the United States. And why has there never been an all-black daytime network soap? It would probably blow the white soaps off the map.

A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.

Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?

Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.