Newt Gingrich was the subject of much mockery this week when he proposed a permanent lunar colony by the end of his second term. Perhaps he ...

Yesterday in New Hampshire, Santorum explained his opposition to same-sex marriage by equating it to polygamy: Santorum retorted, “Are we sa...

I've been obsessing over the Decemberist's album the Hazard's of Love. It's a fantastic fairy tale love story told as a rock...

I've been seeing a lot of "Best of" lists in recent days, and been thinking about my own favorite music discoveries of the yea...

First, as an atheist, I'd like to apologize for the behavior of some of my brethren this season. Specifically, I'm talking about the...

This week produced one of those moments in politics where I felt, once more, that I lived in a Looking Glass universe. The heart of the weir...

Harvest Marriage Lights danced below as the Ferris wheel lifted us above the county fair toward a crescent October moon. In the calm above t...

So, anyway, I'm getting married this Friday. 11-11-11. If the economic picture of the US has improved recently, I suspect economists wil...

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.