The conflict of the ages--love versus art; passion versus Passion --brought to life in this segment from the gorgeous, disturbing, and utter...

While watching MSNBC yesterday morning, at 9:49 am, I Tweeted : .@BarackObama @MSNBC @JoeNBC @MorningMika *IDEA* Have all insurance cos EAT...

On Friday evening, Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ron Paul spoke to CNN's Piers Morgan about his views on abortion. Ron Paul does...

Poster by Darcy Burner , candidate for the United States Congress, representing Washington state. [UPDATED BELOW] What an exceptionally inte...

The largest and most well-funded breast cancer organization in America, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, announced on Tuesday that it would no...

Tell Congress: Don't censor the Internet . (Get a quick-and-dirty explanation of SOPA and PIPA: Eat your Oatmeal !)

"All nationalists have the power of not seeing resemblances between similar sets of facts. A British Tory will defend self-determinati...

This morning, while reading the various and ongoing will-we-or-won't-we discussions about America and Iran, I thought about the dynamic ...

Cf . In a bold and timely op-ed , Mike Klink, a civil engineer--and inspector with TransCanda during earlier phases of the Keystone project ...

Very well, I'll say it: Terry Gilliam's Brazil is simply my favorite movie of all time. I'll often say things like " Braz...

You don't have to be a parent to feel utterly nauseated upon reading stories like this one, the details of which were just posted at The...

I couldn't resist posting this classic SNL Christmas clip. I first experienced Steve Martin's unique wit when I attended a concert ...

The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the TSA, and other agencies working within the Visible Intermodal Prevention and Respons...

During an acute famine in the 1990's, starving North Korean refugees--often accompanied by human traffickers--attempted to cross the Tum...

This is some wonderful footage of Frank Zappa in 1990, when he visited the late Václav Havel in then- Czechoslovakia shortly after it became...