I saw a magazine cover reporting on the Occupy Wall Street protests with the words, "We are the 99%." These words have been kickin...

Last night I had a dream that felt like it unfolded over hours. I was supposed to meet my best friend Greg for lunch at some hamburger place...

I feel like I'm having a hard time thinking about the news of late. I consider myself a informed member of society, who cares about resp...

I watched a show on Discovery the other night about prolonging human life. The show laid out a semi-plausible scenario by which a middle age...

I've been thinking further about my concerns that 401ks may be having the perverse effect of ruining people's savings by creating bu...

For years, I've been a cheerleader for 401ks where I work. I personally have helped at least a dozen people get set up over the years. T...

Did 9-11 change the world forever? Perhaps, but what day doesn't? The terrorist attacks of 9-11 created a lot of hub bub, but I would sa...

A few weeks ago, GOP presidential hopeful Rick Perry referred to evolution as "a theory that's out there." There is nothing in...

Michelle Bachmann's best day of her political life and her worst day were probably one in the same. She rose to the very top of the pack...

So, last week, it was announced that in the Ultimate Spiderman comic, Peter Parker is being killed off and replaced by a half-black/half-lat...

Since a picture is worth a thousand words, here's 8000 words about my beach trip.

I've been watching the debate about raising the debt ceiling with morbid fascination. For most of my life, I've disliked politicians...

Used properly, credit is one of the most powerful tools of capitalism. It makes it possible for individuals to purchase items that would req...

I saw this ad on World Net Daily this morning and it caught my attention, since it looked to me like a little girl about to push her brothe...

The press has mostly moved on from the question of whether President Obama was born in Hawaii or not. Donald Trump kicked the hornet's n...

I was a guest on the State of Things today, along with Henry Jenkins and and James Daily , talking about Superman renouncing his US citizen...

Superman isn't an American. He's a known alien whose only official place of residence is an underground bunker in Antartica. While h...

Yesterday marked the five year anniversary of Laura's death. Thursday, I took Simon and Veronica to place flowers at her grave. The head...

The latest attempt by DC to grab a few headlines involves Superman renouncing his US citizenship. I haven't yet read Action Comics 900, ...

I've been doing a lot more posts about writing than about politics lately, which is natural since I'm deep inside the process of wri...