Happy Birthday, Dr. Ruth!

Psychologist Dr. Ruth Westheimer is a brave woman. She grew up in a Swiss orphanage after her parents were taken by the Nazis in Germany. At age 17 she moved to Jerusalem and fought in the Israeli War of Independence. (And she's only 4 foot six inches tall!) After the war she moved to Paris to study psychology at the Sorbonne University. After graduating, she moved to New York City, received her doctorate at Columbia, and became the most famous sex therapist alive today.

Here are just a few of the books she has written:

Westheimer, Ruth K, and Groat D. De. Dr. Ruth Talks to Kids:
Where You Came From, How Your Body Changes, and What Sex Is All About. New York: Aladdin, 1993. Print.

Westheimer, Ruth K, and Steven Kaplan. Power: The Ultimate Aphrodisiac. Lanham, Md: Madison Books, 2001. Print.

Westheimer, Ruth K, and Jonathan Mark. Heavenly Sex: Sex in the Jewish Tradition.
New York: New York University Press, 1995. Print.

Westheimer, Ruth K. Sex for Dummies. Foster City, CA: IDG Books Worldwide, 1995. Print.

Westheimer, Ruth, and Gil Sedan. Shifting Sands: Bedouin Women at the Crossroads. New York: Lantern Books, 2009. Print.

Westheimer, Ruth K, and Ben Yagoda. The Value of Family:

A Blueprint for the 21st Century. New York: Warner Books, 1996. Print.

Happy Birthday, George Thorogood!

Thorogood, George. Bad to the Bone. Hollywood, Calif: EMI Manhattan, 1982.

He sure does stutter a lot in that song! Here are some m-m-m-m-more great stuttering songs:

* Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes by David Bowie.

Bowie, David. Hunky Dory. New York, N.Y.: RCA, 1971.

* B-B-B-Benny and the Jets by Elton John.

John, Elton, and Bernie Taupin. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. NYC: Rocket, 1973.


*[B-B-B-Baby] You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet by Bachman-Turner Overdrive.

Bachman Turner Overdrive (Musical group). Not Fragile. [Chicago, Ill.]: Mercury, 1974.

* T-T-T-Time Machine by Cracker.

Cracker (Musical group). Sunrise in the Land of Milk and Honey. Santa Monica, CA: 429 Records, 2009.

*Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lola by The Kinks.

Kinks (Musical group), and Ray Davies. One for the road. New York, N.Y.: Konk Records, 1999.

Who (Musical group). My Generation. London: IBC Studios, 1965

And talking about my generation . . .

Here's my karaoke version of the Cracker hit, I Hate My Generation:


And here's the real deal:


Now why would anyone want to die before getting old?