Democrats from the House Judiciary Committee held a forum yesterday to discuss racial profiling and hate crimes in the wake of Trayvon Martin’s shooting in Florida last month.   Since the matter remains under Florida’s jurisdiction, the forum functioned primarily as a gesture—an...

A few years ago, I read somewhere that we had it all wrong: that the Democrats’ real obsession is with money not with sex, and that the Republicans’ real obsession is with sex not with money.   Now, I have a hard time believing the statement about the Democrats considering Bill...

Aaaaargh, those damn Republicans.  They’re spoiling it for us, and they’ve been doing it since: 2008:  When Obama won the presidential election and they decided to be the “Party of No” 2004:    When Bush won a second term, even though he had lied about Iraq’s...

I ran into one of my old professors from undergrad in Starbucks the other day.  He’s one of those folks that has seen and done a lot in his life.  He is an eccentric fellow with a lot of wisdom beneath a sarcastic, bitter shell.  We sat down and talked about a lot of stuff, ranging...

I had plans to write another piece.  Something funny or sarcastic about Republicans and how foolish they are these days. I have so much material from which to draw inspiration.  But I cannot.  I am heartbroken.   For the past couple of days I have an image and a name seared in my memory....

Bettina Siegel, from the school lunch blog The Lunch Tray, started a petition on March 6th to get “pink slime” removed from school cafeterias across the country. Pink slime?   In an artful linguistic twist, the USDA calls it “lean, finely textured beef,” but, considering what it is,...

I’m fairly new to the social world of media world of social media.  I always knew that I wanted to write but, since the desire far outweighs the talent, I don’t feel that I can tackle writing a book at this point.  So, instead, I started this blog.  What I didn’t know is...

With news breaking last Thursday that Invisible Children co-founder, Jason Russell, was detained after freaking out in San Diego and treating passersby to an excellent view of what we might tactfully term his “Joseph Kony”, it seems like the right moment to take a step back and...

What looked like a shoo-in for the Republican nomination got more interesting on Tuesday when Santorum edged out Romney in Mississippi and Alabama. Romney put up his dukes and fought back. Bam! He took Hawaii. Wammo! And Samoa. Santorum’s gains are keeping it entertaining, but whatever Fox...

I’ve had it.  I’m so tired of hearing all the conservative spin masters trying to clean up Limbaugh’s mess by pointing in the opposite direction and saying “yours is worse,” that I’ve decided to put in my two cents and show why Bill Maher is nothing like...