These two older women are a perfect metaphor for the “economic crisis”, a.k.a. GD2 (Great Depression 2) CLICK HERE FOR DIRECT IPOD LINK...

Unlike some of our politicians, Crabby Old Lady believes that Earth’s environment is deteriorating due to mankind’s reckless behavior – lack of good stewardship, if you will. Since Earth is the only planet we’ve got, it behooves us to clean up our act and every person needs to do his or her ...

Crabby Old Lady’s ISP and domain registrar, through which her email is filtered to her inbox, work hard to identify and quarantine spam. Her email program, which employs Baysian filters, is another stopgap that can be taught to identify spam by Crabby herself. Nevertheless, about 60 to 70 percent ...

Back when I was in the record business one of my bosses would always say you can find the future by looking at the edges. Well he didn’t say that exactly but he would always go first to the gay clubs and see what they was listening to now because he claimed, by next year, everyone would be lis...

I don't get my hair cut too often. As a mid-30s man, I feel a certain sense of smug glee when I see many of my younger friends with a shiny pate as I hide behind a veritable Eagle's Nest of hirsute glory. My hair is thick, healthy, and shows no signs of graying - yet another point of self-satisfacti...

Frequent contributor to this website, Yisroel Pensack, tipped me off to this story. Maria Altmann, 89, wasn’t in the Holocaust but as a niece of the late Czech sugar baron Ferdinand Bloch she (along with four other heirs) was awarded the ownership of his five paintings by Austrian Gustav Klimt...

Is it Crabby Old Lady or has politics become annoying in the three weeks since a new president was elected? For the better part of a year, Crabby’s life went all to hell as she spent too many hours every day reading newspapers and magazines, online and off, and followed political blogs and pundits...

I have a Spanish speaker who constantly emails me and who has been emailing me the last 4 years asking for nude pictures of Leeza Gibbons. I am guessing he’s one of those weird dudes who doesn’t know how to let go and move on, because I haven’t really heard much about Leeza Gibbons...

[EDITORIAL NOTE: Anyone who has sent an email that needs a response between about last Tuesday and Friday – please resend because it is no longer in my possession. I do have all new contributions for The Elder Storytelling Place.] Having spent the majority of Saturday and way too much of Sunday re...

[IMPORTANT ACTION NOTICE: Later today, the U.S. Senate will vote again on H.R.6331, a bill that would roll back Medicare pay cuts to physicians and maintain assistance to low-income elders. Watch this :37 second video and call your senators this morning at 800.998.0180 to ask them to vote yea for th...