Ben Stein’s Diary
Ben Stein’s Diary
by | Jun 20, 2020

Friday I awakened to a blizzard of emails from my anorexic nutcase, former top model and actress “friend.” She wants to commit suicide. She slit her wrists two nights ago, but it wasn’t enough and she’s healing rapidly. She has…

by | Jun 19, 2020

Thursday It’s four a.m. and I cannot get to sleep. I’m up because I watched a documentary about World War II and a large part of it was about the Holocaust. The documentary in particular focused on anti-Semitism in the…

by | Jun 17, 2020

Tuesday Another perfect day here. But my pool is not working right. The heater is broken, and the pool is too cool to use. I keep calling the pool masters and they have not fixed it. Maddening. I struggled on…

by | Jun 10, 2020

Monday A full day. I slept late, but then I couldn’t swim because there were too many dead leaves in the pool. There have been powerful Santa Ana winds all over SoCal, and leaves and branches are everywhere. Instead, I…

by | Jun 8, 2020

Monday It’s another perfect day today. Yesterday, I slept late, then rode with my pal Judah and my nurse Glenn Miller to our home in Rancho Mirage. There was no traffic at all, and we flew down the TEN to…

by | Jun 7, 2020

Overcast this morning. I hate it. I got a barrage of texts from a close woman friend, pretty much the tallest woman I have ever known well, telling me that her sister had recently had a baby. The new mother…

by | Jun 4, 2020

Now for a few words about the criminal looters, arsonists, and murderers — and the good people — of today: 1. Yes, of course black lives matter. But 99.9 percent of the blacks killed violently in this country are killed…

by | Jun 2, 2020

Rancho Mirage Morningside CC No riots here, I am happy to report. It’s hot and I had a great swim this morning and then shopped for lunch and dinner for my entourage of wife and nurses and a very special…

by | May 29, 2020

Thursday Another perfect day here in Beverly Hills. Not a cloud in the sky. Eighty degrees. No humidity. I am so blessed to live here I cannot even start to say. How do I get to live here? About 30…

by | May 24, 2020

Saturday Another perfect day in God’s gift to mankind, Beverly Hills. But today is a big change from two days ago. That was Thursday, and I went to see my great physician, Dr. William Skinner. He’s been my doctor for…

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