You know you're going old when ...

The lead singer from one of your all-time favorite bands has to cancel a tour because of a bad back. That's right, no U2 in July because Bono -- perhaps from carrying the weight of the world too long -- can't do it right now.

And I had a whole day planned; one that included breaking my diet for a cheese steak at Pat's or Geno's (my policy is hit whichever one has the shorter line).

But it gets worse.

The lead singer of another all-time favorite band does an exclusive interview with ... Larry King.

That's right, and he fit right in on the set with the human insect.

Oy.

My days in Miami Beach, the retirement home for Jews from the mid-Atlantic, are coming.

Get pregnant, get rich. Get nauseated. Only in America. Like mother, like daughter ...

Bristol Palin set to earn up to $30k on the lecture circuit
From the New York Post

Sarah Palin's nineteen-year-old daughter Bristol plans to join her mother on the lucrative speaking circuit and could expect to earn between $15,000 to $30,000 per appearance, People reported Tuesday.

Bristol is now a member of the Single Source Speakers Bureau. According to her profile she is available to speak on "pregnancy prevention, abstinence, faith and life."

Bristol gained notoriety during her mother's 2008 vice-presidential run when it was revealed she was pregnant with then boyfriend Levi Johnston's child.

Bristol previously said that she is financially independent of her parents and is not leaning on her parents for financial help.

"I'm doing it by myself," Bristol told People magazine. "I would say the majority of any paycheck I receive is going to Tripp. Childcare is very expensive, formula is expensive, diapers are expensive -- and you don't think about that as a kid, at all."

Bristol's mother, Sarah, makes frequent appearances at speaking events across the U.S. and has reportedly earned $12 million since she resigned as Governor of Alaska in July 2009.

One has to almost feel badly for Arlen Specter. One day before E-Day, he is fending off a serious challenge from Joe Sestak for the Democratic nod for Novemeber's senate race against Pat Toomey.
Specter -- once a Democrat trapped in a Republican's body before becoming the opposite -- has been his own worst enemy as Sestak traced and tracked him, like a magic bullet, to make this one too close to call.
Heck, Specter's cials can't even make him look and sound like someone who is more likely to plotz, or worse, than to finish out his term. He has become the poster senior for term -- and age -- limits for our lawmakers.
Sestak has hit below the belt at times, but Specter has slung mud as well.
And the choice, if you are still undecided, is go with Sestak. He has the energy, vision and best chance to keep the seat on the righteous side of the aisle in November.
And Specter has no one to blame for it but himself. Sometimes some guys just don't know when to quit. It's up to the rest of us to put people such as this out of their misery.
They shoot horses, don't they?
The least we can do is put an old politician out to pasture.

Let us not forget that today -- May 4, 2010 -- marks the 40th anniversary of one of the darkest episodes in American history: The needless gunning down of four students during an anti-war protest at Kent State University in Ohio.
Literally, and figuratively, that tragic event -- along with the Manson murders -- signaled the end of the 1960s and the promise that decade held.