First, I was poking around on the Internets yesterday and happened upon a link back to an article from Pensito Review on the website for Barbra Streisand. I am one of two gay men over 50 in the United States who is not gaga over Streisand’s music (and, perhaps not coincidentally, I have lived with [...]

Magnitudes of disaster: Editor-In-Chief Jon always takes on a slightly condescending attitude when Co-Editor Trish and I complain about hurricanes. As a denizen of West Hollywood, Jon likes to point out that he lives right on top of a REALLY BIG FAULT LINE THAT COULD GO AT ANY MINUTE, WITHOUT WARNING (emphasis mine).
While Jon [...]

Missed hits: Pensito Review Editor-In-Chief Jon sweats the Web site traffic numbers every month. He crunches them, massages them and analyzes them to ascertain how many above-average people visit Pensito Review and how many stick around to read its insightful and occasionally irritating content.
Just the other day at the watercooler, he was lamenting to [...]

Unfiltered inspiration: Here at Pensito Review, we receive lots of spam e-mails every day. Hundreds of them, most having to do with erectile dysfunction, offers for weird pharmaceuticals cheap, pornography involving animals and/or Siamese twins, and a wide variety of poker games.
We hate the spam because it takes lots of time to go through [...]

Buck and I are getting a bit gloomy up here in Pensito Review’s musty, dusty electronic garret because our cohort Trish has been out of commission due to a bit of scheduled (as opposed to emergency, but not elective, so don’t go there!) surgery.
We heard from her today and all is as well. Please [...]

On this date in one of the years of the last century (it’s not important which), the man who would one day have a cousin named Trish and a college chum named Buck was born.
Today, since it’s three hours earlier in California, he’s probably just getting really sloshed in celebration. I hope so anyway. Happy [...]

Executive power play: President George Bush today vetoed a bipartisan bill that sought to expand the limitations currently imposed on human stem cell research purportedly based on his religious beliefs. It was Bush’s first veto of a congressional bill in the five-and-a-half years of his presidency.
Instead of vetoing bills he disagrees with, Bush usually [...]

Check out Googlism.com. You enter your name, or any other word, and it gives you a list of phrases. Not sure what it means but it’s a fun way to waste a few minutes. It said it didn’t yet have enough information on “jon ponder” to provide results but on my last name (and cousin [...]

Our first (and I think most important) reader sent a note:
On Thursday, July 7, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., appeared on PBS’s Charlie Rose Show. He announced his agreement with the PENSITO REVIEW editors that GWB is the Worst President Ever.
Thanks, Mom!

The prurient pen: An article in Editor & Publisher discusses a recent survey of U.S. newspaper columnists and how they viewed their craft. It came up with some interesting findings:
The University of San Francisco’s J. Michael Robertson unveiled the results of his survey Saturday at the National Society of Newspaper Columnists (NSNC) conference here. [...]