Tony Hicks

CONGRATULATIONS ON, so far, surviving the bloodthirsty rampage known as holiday shopping. Read More

With UC Berkeley professor Oliver Williamson winning a Nobel Prize for economics earlier this week, as well as President Barack Obama stunning claim of the Nobel Peace Prize, there's been a lot of talk of Nobel Prizes around these parts lately. Read More

But the fear has nothing to do with ghosts and monsters, or the prospect of finding my pumpkins splattered in the road when I get back from trick-or-treating with my kids. Read More

Sure, it seems easily diagnosed and curable. Read More

SO I WAS DRIVING down the freeway the other day, reading the newspaper, checking my e-mail, texting, changing lanes, watching TV and worrying about health care reform, when it dawned on me that it's never to early to start Christmas shopping. Read More

Hollywood isn't doing much to refute the conservative notion it's a cesspool of wacked out, pampered liberals who lack values, can get away with anything, and possess no firm standing in reality. Read More

It's that wonderful time when kids can become monsters, witches and Fart-o-Meters. Read More

JAWS DROPPED everywhere last week when actress Mackenzie Phillips announced to the world that she had an incestuous relationship for a decade with her father, John Phillips, of The Mamas & The Papas. Read More

I WAS ON an airplane recently, attempting to keep from popping open my head and extracting my brain. Read More

ONCE A MAN gets to a certain age, he should know when to shut up. Read More