The best response to Abercrombie and Fitch CEO award goes to Greg Karber. This teenager from LA heard Abercrombie's chief exec say only cool, thin teenagers should wear his clothes. Now, when Kirstie Alley heard this, she got mad and made a stink, which only made her look silly and bitter.

Karber instead organized a social media campaign to encourage teens to round up old Abercrombie clothes they may have bought "by mistake" and donate them to a local homeless shelter. He made the cool kids comment look silly and petty and clothed some homeless at the same time.

Well done, kid.

Did you see the great father daughter reunion at the Florida baseball game? These videos get to me EVERY time. This father was the "catcher" at a Tampa Bay Rays game and the daughter throws the first pitch. He stands up and takes his mask off. My favorite part is how she is walking toward the mound, thinking that's what she is expected to do, and when she sees her dad's face she breaks into a sprint. It's a great reminder to be grateful for all soldier homecomings as we head into next weekend's Memorial Day holiday.

Are Attorney General Eric Holder's days numbered?

Maybe.

The president said Thursday morning at a Rose Garden ceremony that he has complete confidence in his AG. But if this week has been a nightmare for Obama, you have to believe Eric Holder is having a bad dream of his own.

Holder has never been a favorite of Republicans on Capitol Hill, but that is never a huge surprise. Republicans always look sideways at Democratic attorneys general, especially those who are personal friends of the president who appoints them. But after the details on the Fast and Furious gun-running debacle came to light, Holder was an official target of some on both sides of the aisle.

The week of May 13th has not been kind to Holder either. First, the IRS controversy involving special scrutiny given to conservative tea party groups, and then the questions about the phone records being seized from the Associated Press. Holder was grilled about the issues on Capitol HIll on Wednesday and, much like his answer on Fast and Furious, basically said he had removed himself from the AP operation. That works sometimes, but not forever.

Thursday, a CNN report said that the Justice Department failed to oversee two terrorists or suspected terrorists in the witness-protection program, and that these two, with new government-provided IDs and passports, may be out of the country, How much did he know or not know about that?

There are mistakes and there is lack of oversight. This looks like both.

Here's something I have said -- never.

There's something interesting going on down at the State Capitol. And it has to do with the state budget. And the governor is on the right, or shall I say "correct" side of it. And so is the president of the United States.

I know, not possible, right?

Here it is.

The governor thinks that expanding Medicaid (allowing more Arizonans access to AHCCCs, our version of the Medicaid plan) is good for the economy because it makes us eligible for $1.6 billion every year as part of Obamacare.

There are already 1.3 million Arizonans on our state Medicaid/AHCCCS rolls anyway. That's a lot of working poor, both adults and children. But Arizona does a particularly good job at Medicaid -- it might be one of Arizona's best-kept secrets.

But here's the thing. We know Jan Brewer doesn't like Obamacare. We know she doesn't like Obama! But she looked at the numbers and decided that expanding Medicaid was best for the state. She can't run for governor again, so she's not pandering to an electorate. In fact, she is bucking her own party for what she thinks is right for the state. Are we really to believe she has some other motivation?

Let's hope common sense prevails at the legislature and she gets this done.

Tuesday morning's headlines about Angelina Jolie have brought the breast cancer discussion to the table for everyone.

And while most of us know someone who has won their battle with breast cancer, and medical science can do more than ever to cure the disease, many women still lose. And a lot of women already know they can be tested for the gene most responsible for causing breast cancer.

But Tuesday, because someone who is a household name and Hollywood A-lister has taken matters into her own hands and aggressively, officially disarmed the disease, you can bet that women across the country will want to know how they can do it too.

The science is readily available. The surgery is neither new, nor cutting edge. But the biggest stumbling block for most women won't be the act of asking for a preventive mastectomy.

It will be the cost.

Insurance companies have yet to embrace, for the most part, personalize medicine like the kind Angelina Jolie just went out and got. For most of us, the answer to the question, "Can I have what she is having," is, "No."

Yet, because of genetic research, doctors are now able to treat the specific subtype of a particular disease and their rates of success keep going up. Pretty soon, we will have a test for just about every kind of cancer and doctors will be able to predict with certainty whether or not you ill get it. Maybe they'll even know WHEN you will get it.

Will your insurance company pay for that test? We have to hope so.

In the end, it will cost less to treat us all.

Justin Upton is back in the Valley on Monday.

He is having a career year with the Atlanta Braves after being traded in the off-season. Arizona Sports 620 has an online poll up on its website, and so far, "Boo Justin Upton" is beating "Applaud Justin Upton" which I think is a shame.

Upton didn't ask for this, and booing almost always looks bad. Don't do it.

Please?

Tesla S

Did you see the sales numbers for the Tesla S?

In the first quarter of this year, more people bought the all-electric Tesla S than a similarly priced Mercedes, BMW or Audi.

Now, this isn't a perfect comparison, as the cars compared here aren't exact equals. Tesla only makes one top model as opposed to the other car makers, but we are talking about expensive cars, ones that are purchased by a demographic who may have never considered electric before. Wwhat it tells us is that Americans WILL buy electric if it's a car they want to drive.

On Thursday, Consumer Reports called the Model S the best car it has ever tested. The only reason it didn't get 100 points because it goes just 300 miles on a single charge.

Still. Does anyone doubt that this kind of technology is the future?

Mother's Day

Hoping all my fellow moms out there had a fantastic, relaxing Mother's Day weekend! I hope your kids spoiled you rotten and you felt happy and loved.

Now, welcome back to reality...

What a week in news we had! From Jodi Arias to the Cleveland kidnappings, House hearings on Benghazi and the burial of one of the Boston Bombing suspects.

Lets skip Arias, as we will get our fill of her next week when the penalty phase of her trial begins.

Cleveland abductions

The story of the Cleveland kidnapping gets stranger every day and the details become even harder to read. Friday we learned that one of daughters of kidnapping suspect Ariel Castro is serving time in an Indiana prison for attempted murder of her own child. We heard from two of his other daughters Thursday and they seemed, by most accounts, pretty normal. Both said they are overwhelmed by what their father is accused of having done.

And about himself, Castro said he is cold blooded, and alleges he was both physically and sexually abused as a child. Makes you wonder how we ever stop such a cycle of violence, doesn't it?

Will the House ever be satisfied about what Obama and his administration knew about Benghazi? My bet is no. I remember thinking that the very public deaths of four Americans in the consulate in Benghazi would be too much for the White House to live down before the election, but I was wrong.

But I think that no matter how many hearings are held and sworn statements taken, not too many minds will be changed at this point about who was at fault. We are just too dug in.

And finally, we now know where the body of Tamerlan Tsarnev was buried. In a small Islamic cemetery in Virginia. That didn't take long. Just goes to prove that secrets are very hard to keep these days.

Did you see this story today? I heard Pamela read this story this morning and I couldn't believe it! Here goes … .

HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- A judge in Montana has ordered the Fort Harrison VA Medical Center to pay nearly $60,000 to a man who was wrongly diagnosed with brain cancer and told he had just a few months to live. U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy wrote that the distress Mark Templin and his family suffered was caused by a doctor's ``negligent failure to meet the standard of care'' in delivering the diagnosis in 2009. The judge says in the months Templin believed he was dying he quit his job, sold his pickup truck, celebrated a "last" birthday and contemplated suicide.

I hope the guy gets his job back. I really do. But mistakes happen, and I think I might be OK with the "living like I am dying" idea, if only for a year. I mean, isn't that what most people say they would do if they could do it over? And we never seem to do it.

I am 99 percent serious when I say that I think instead of a lawsuit, this "victim" should send the doctor a thank-you note.

Well, it's finally here: Verdict day in the Jodi Arias trial.

Soon we'll know what the jury of eight men and four women have decided in this case, which, for all the publicity it has garnered now, WORLDwide, is still a murder case, perhaps not even in the first degree.

This officially qualifies as a very busy news day.

In a week when three girls in Cleveland were re-introduced to the world after a decade of captivity, the national media didn't know where to go. Scores of reporters are in Cleveland on Seymour Street, waiting for the girls to talk. The REST of the media is on the street outside Maricopa County Superior Court waiting for the Arias verdict.

It's obvious to us here in Phoenix that the Arias story is number one, in terms of the amount of coverage we give the story. It happened here, after all. And the world has been, for very sensational reasons, watching very closely.

And a man was murdered. A man with friends and family in the Valley who want to see justice done.

But in Cleveland, three girls lost 10 years of their lives. A man who lived in a closely built neighborhood had them under everyone's noses the whole time and who knows what unspeakable things went on inside that house. They have years of healing to do and years to catch up on. Some of what they lost they can never get back.

Let's try to do their story justice too.

What? Arizona's not on the top 10 list of states to retire?

Arizona rates surprisingly low on list of best states for retirement.

Don't tell anyone in Sun City West. Or Sun Lakes. Or Scottsdale. Or ...

I guess it's the cost of living, which is so much lower in the Southeast, but it sure seems like this is the place I would come to retire from Cleveland, or Chicago, or New York. Although the summers are a bit hot. Isn't that when you go visit your grandkids?

Speaking of Cleveland, I think it's officially time that Clevelanders get over LeBron James. The 28-year-old was named the NBA's Most Valuable Player over the weekend, becoming the youngest player to ever do so. He got 120 of 121 first-place votes, and no, the one writer who voted him second was NOT from Cleveland.

Look, I root for Cleveland as much as anyone, but he didn't have to stay there. The town only makes itself look bad by continuing to demonize the world's BEST basketball player.

For James' part, he said he actually worked harder to be the leagues best defensive player but lost out to Marc Gasol of the Memphis Grizzlies.

Pat Riley said, when giving James the award, that in all his years in the league, he's the best he's ever seen.

You've got to think that, if California firefighers are having this hard of a time NOW, it's going to be an all-time fire season.

For those of us who spend a lot of time in the high country of Arizona in the summer, be ready. All these years of high temperatures and little snowfall in the winter are officially an emergency.

Good luck to those on the front lines in LA this weekend.

Was the Boston bomber's wife in the dark?

You want to believe that the widow of the elder Boston bombing suspect didn't have anything to do with the bombs, right?

Katherine Russell said she didn't know her husband was building bombs in their apartment, but the younger brother, now talking to investigators, said that's where they were building them.

It's hard enough to accept such an awful act, but to believe that an American citizen could go along with it makes it even worse.

Great Friday on Wall Street

Amazing numbers on Wall Street Friday.

The Dow and S & P are both in record territory. Add to that the jobless numbers that show more Americans are working and fewer are looking and not finding work and you have a much brighter economic picture than we had just six months ago.

And the sequester, the dreaded spending cuts that were supposed to result in mass layoffs and people going without? Are we still waiting?