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Experts estimate there will be less than a year's worth of drinking water in California's reservoirs at the end of 2015 Yet the rich and famous of Los Angeles continue to water their lawns with apparently no concern for conservation Aerial images have shown the ever-green lawns of Kim Kardashian, Barbra Streisand and Petra Stunt among others Barbra Streisand appears to have been shamed into cutting her water usage after shocking aerial photographs showed her Malibu yard looking lush and green despite California experiencing its worst drought in history. Residents across California have been demolishing pools, cutting back on showers...

Close friends of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton are always saying that she has a great sense of humor — witty, sarcastic, playful — and that skeptical voters would come around if they saw that part of her personality. Well, skeptical voters, take note: Mrs. Clinton has had some pretty amusing moments on the campaign trail this fall, wearing her personality on her sleeve more than she has in the past. This campaign season has been something of a dress rehearsal for Mrs. Clinton, as she considers auditioning for a bigger role in 2008. Her political issues, campaign advertisements and public...

I understand that for most of you reading this website...I am in many ways preaching to the choir. You know how I feel about this current administration, and many of you feel the same way. But can you believe that some polls now show that more people believe Bush/Rice/Cheney's take on their handling of intelligence pre-and post-9/11 than the many people inside the administration who have come out to tell us the facts about what really went on - including Richard Clarke and Paul O'Neil (see last week's statement about Clarke's take on Bush's handling of 9/11 for more of...

<p>"Darling, a sponge fits in anywhere."</p> <p>So went the exchange between Barbra Streisand and the late great Kay Medford in "Funny Girl."</p> <p>BARBRA STREISAND'S admiration for Bill Clinton hasn't wavered, despite the fact that he is no longer president. Streisand was like a giddy school girl at a chi-chi dinner for California's Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, last week in L.A. (At the Pacific Palisades home of venture capitalist David Fisher.) Clinton, still wildly popular with Democrats, attended, and Barbra was starry-eyed, protective and affectionate with him.</p>

The woman who doesn't know Saddam from the Ayatollah is now espousing a Paul Wellstone "conspiracy theory" according to the N.Y. Post. Not on her Web site, or to the press, mind you ... but presumably to the only people left who will listen to her (hint: they have to if they want to get paid): her designers. Streisand expressed her paranoid musings to an audience of interior decorators bidding on the chance to work on her Malibu estate. She told the group that Wellstone's death was "no accident," according to the Post. "I was shocked but, knowing a bit...