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What I would like to tell my son's fifth grade teacher at his graduation: For weeks now, my friends have asked me, "Are you sad? Are you sad the year is over?" and I have ...
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Last night there were two separate attacks on mosques in England. An incendiary device was brought into a mosque in Braintree Essex and in Gillingham Kent a window was broken ...
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Watching major media coverage about Amanda Bynes recently, I hit my breaking point. Is the self-destructive behavior of a troubled young actress who used to be on a TV really ...
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Without the artistic and emotional contributions of gay people there would be no gospel music. Throughout the middle decades of the 20th century, a significant number of gay ...
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Memorial Day is a unique and special holiday for many reasons. However, unlike others, the American flag is lowered to half-staff until noon, when it is then raised to ...
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in the Middle East with a rather full plate. I don't want to pile on more, but there is an issue connected to both the Syrian civil war ...
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Click here to read an original op-ed from the TED speaker who inspired this post and watch the TEDTalk below. This is war... and the battle is depression. I've never been a ...
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Need a break from scrambled eggs? Change it up using the mighty avocado (derived from the Aztec word for "testicle" [ahuacatl], by the way). With the instructions below, you ...
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Sari had been working in book publishing for a long time. And she was the first to admit: She preferred to work with women. In her experience, women were far superior to men ...
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We work with a lot of heroes. Of course, typically, they aren't real. Four years ago, Paramount Studios allowed us to travel to the Middle East, to screen our Star Trek film ...
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Last month, the Walton Family Foundation, led by heirs to the Wal-Mart fortune, announced an $8 million grant to StudentsFirst, headed by Michelle Rhee, the ousted chancellor ...
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What would you do for a cheap airfare? If you said "anything" then you're probably going to love flying in the future. It's a place that will be filled with steals and deals, ...
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50 Years Later, the Birmingham Pledge of Nonviolence Still Inspires By John Dear I've been pondering the 1963 Birmingham campaign which led to the March on Washington and ...
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The honor of Muslims is the Syria that stands up, doubly insurgent, fighting on two fronts: that of a dictatorship that has become insane, killing with a vengeance ...
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May is not only National Barbecue Month, but this Monday, May 27 th , it's Memorial Day ! There is no better time than now to, er, beef up, your hamburger grilling skills. ...
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Continuing to ban lesbian den mothers and gay scoutmasters is sending a horrible message to American youth, including the scouts, gay and straight. The Boy Scouts of America ...
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All these men are honorable. None has broken any law. But they and their ilk in congress -- the Democrats who are now rolling back Dodd-Frank -- don't seem to appreciate the ...
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Ever since the Keystone fight began, the smart money has insisted the pipeline will be approved. But so far: no pipe.
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I spent last weekend driving a Tesla Model S from Washington DC to Atlantic City and back. Never before in my life have I driven a car that has started so many conversations. ...
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Mention you want to go to a nudist colony to friends and right away everyone starts giggling and nervously laughing. Say you want to try "European style" sunbathing or go to a ...
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Sometimes surprising and good things happen completely out of the blue. Like this interview. I'm at the gym last night when I got an email from the author A.M. Homes to tell ...
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Destroying the Planet for Record Profits Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com We have a word for the conscious slaughter of a racial or ethnic group: genocide. And one for the ...
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When I was five-months-old, I was diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), a motor neuron disease that affects all gross motor skills in the body. At the time of my ...
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I saw World War Z last night at a small screening at the MoMA. There were a few journalists, some industry types and a pretty large collection of celebrities: Bruce Willis and ...
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In my amateur experiments in the kitchen, trying to teach myself to cook, I often find myself straying from recipes. My kitchen is too small, I don't have the right ...