OK, you're in your early 50's. More frequently than you'd like to admit you wake up with a new ache, scratching your graying head wondering "where did that come from?" Well, you can still dream big. And here's proof. This is from regardinghorses.com. Japanse Equestrian Hiroshi Hoketsu is the oldest athlete competing at the Beijing Olympics. At 67-years-old, Hiroshi is "...a dressage rider for the Japanese equestrian team. His first Olympics was in 1964, where he placed 40th in the show... Read Full Story

Sandy Mall is a baby boomer. He can remember the days of idealistic fury, of wanting to change the world and make it a better place. Mall is trying to do just that. Ironically, he’s committed himself to helping out the very people “his generation” often thought were part of the problem. Now at 54, he’ll tell you he’s not the bad guy, but one of the good guys. “We are living longer. Longevity brings a variety of different financial and legal planning challenges. I want to do my part to make... Read Full Story

Are you one of those baby boomers whose VCR light is still blinking? I mean, do you still have a VCR? If you do, I’ll take the gamble and bet you’re 50 or older. Have you ever spoken with someone in their 20’s, 30’s or 40’s (though those of us in this highly evolved 40 age bracket bridge the 8-track tape, the VCR and DVD) about their entertainment centers? If you have, you’re well aware that the VCR is not in the ballpark. In fact, if you’ve even uttered the letters V-C-R, you’re opening... Read Full Story

My Republican friend is at it, again. You know, the guy who likes to talk politics at the gym when I’m at my worst and most distracted --- pumping iron and working up a sweat on the cross trainer. Let’s call him “Richard.” I think the name fits on a couple of levels. Richard’s that ever present, tormenting gadfly. I can just hear the thoughts rattling around in his head. “Let me kick the progressive when he’s out of breath, blue in the face, spent --- burned out and lacking any intellectual... Read Full Story

A Republican friend (yes, we bleeding hearts have a soft spot for the misguided) recently interrupted my workout at the gym to quiz me about Barack Obama's legislative accomplishments. My friend, after committing to memory the talking points of the Republican National Committee (that's Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, etc.) must have mistaken me for Kirk Watson, the Texas State Senator and Obama supporter who was incapable of naming one Obama legislative accomplishment during his... Read Full Story

With the 2008 Veepstakes just beginning, I'll make the case for former Democratic Senator Bob Graham of Florida. As Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Graham opposed the war in Iraq. He said it would divert U.S. attention from what he believed was the right fight in Afghanistan. In February 2002, after meeting with military leaders and reviewing U.S. intelligence, Graham concluded a war with Iraq would be a distraction that would end poorly. Score one for Graham. In 2000, before... Read Full Story

Poor Dubya. He’s running out of time to play on our fears and further his “compassionate conservative” agenda. But, he’s trying desperately to leave no fear unturned before next January. If he’s not careful, he’ll have Poppy Bush in tears again, and soon. The 43rd president of the United States was in Israel this week to address the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, representing you, me and all Americans in wishing our ally well as it marked its 60th anniversary. Thousands of miles from... Read Full Story

Hillary Clinton remembers 1976. President Gerald Ford versus former California Governor Ronald Reagan. An epic battle for the GOP presidential nomination.  By the time the primary season was done, so was Ford. Actually, he was almost done. Ford was so bloodied by Reagan, who ridiculed "Dr. Kissinger and Mr. Ford," for what the Gipper saw as weak foreign policy with the impending return of the Panama Canal, not to mention that dreadful Cold War detente, that Ford won the nomination by a... Read Full Story