One thing has been bugging me in all this Acorn video frenzy. (If you don't know what the Acorn videos are, google them.) It's true...

I've discussed this topic before, but after Max Baucus announced his health care reform bill this week, I've found myself once more ...

In the context of the health care debate, I've been hearing a lot of people assert that access to health care is a fundamental human rig...

Frequent visitors to this blog have probably noticed the name Loren Eaton in the comments section. Loren recently invited me to write a gue...

I'll admit it: Most of my posts focus on gripes and frustrations. Readers of my blog might come away with the impression that I'm ki...

For the last couple of months, the stock market has climbed almost as fast as it fell around the end of last year. A lot of people were won...

I'm more than a little conflicted on the issue of health care reform. Seldom has an issue presented such a contradiction between my phi...

One reason it hasn't been too dificult to cut back on my news consumption (see my previous post), is that some of my once favorite right...

So, I spent most of the week steering clear of the news, but broke down yesterday and read a newspaper at lunch. I'd been hearing chatt...

Sorry for the lack of updates the last two weeks. I took a vacation and went down to Myrtle Beach and avoided the internet as much as possi...

As of July 1, Team Dragon met its fundraising goal of $1000 for the Susan G. Koman Foundation. I've had 33 contributors, a couple of wh...

Below is the screen shot of the Amazon home page when I signed in earlier today at a public computer. It's tiny, but if you click on it...

Yesterday, Books for Breasts passed the $1000 mark on funds collected, and I still have about 20 books left to give away! Back in 2004, the ...

Followers of my blogs, and the readers who read the acknowledgement pages of my books, will know that I lost my partner Laura Herrmann to br...

Health care reform is probably the biggest legislative goal of the Obama presidency. I have no doubt that, by the end of the summer, some so...

Observers of politics this week saw two of Obama's biggest legislative initiatives crash and burn. We'll maybe not burn, but at lea...

Veronica Gray, Simon Gray, Me, Andy Herrmann, Jessica Herrmann, James Herrman, and the top of Maggie's head (in stroller). June 13 Sus...

A few months after Laura died of cancer, I went the Bodyworks exhibit, where corpses were preserved with plastic. Peeled and posed, they sh...

I read comic books faithfully for over thirty years. I got hooked on them as a kid, collected them as a teen, and accumulated them weekly as...

A few months ago, I launched my "Ten Reasons to Believe in God, or Why I am an Atheist" series. I think at this point, I've t...