(Note: This column was prepared by E. Haig, the Sacramento-based performing arts critic whom Ed Telfeyan most admires.)             The annual Hollywood love-fest, otherwise known as the Academy Awards Show, brought back host Billy Crystal (for the ninth time, but first since 2004), and made the most of his presence by playing up the comedy while […]

            My sense is that shortly after our earliest forebears discovered God (or discovered his existence, if you prefer), they determined that sex was evil.  And from that moment in our evolution, the act that for all other species is as natural as eating became our forbidden fruit.  Except for the fact that the act […]

            Rick Santorum doesn’t like feminists.  He also doesn’t like homosexuality (he loves homosexuals, just hates their acts).  He vehemently opposes abortion, child killing in his view.  He also condemns birth control.  He considers any pre-marital (and, of course, extramarital) sex a sin and, presumably (if he is true to his Catholic faith), only condones […]

            I recently engaged in an e-mail exchange with a reader who had sent me an invitation to join in a petition drive to reaffirm America’s long-time motto, “In God We Trust.”  I rejected the offer in no uncertain terms, which led to an exchange of views: she is a devout Christian; I (hopefully this […]