My mom and dad are New Yorkers who left the tenement streets of the Bronx and came to Los Angeles when West Side Story was real. They have the scars to prove it. "They used to break bottles on a fence and follow me home. Look where they got me...

Life is astonishing on the world wide web, a sacred space where we can all enjoy a two-way street, incorporating ideas, anecdotes, links from readers, as well as exchanges with scientists, artists, and thinkers to smooth the interactions between people and the home planet. Yea-right Negron get a...

No female Polygamists? I found one. One of the biggest polygamy cases in the nation's history became more complicated Monday when Texas officials found the first female polygamist, Wilma Anne Jefferson, known to her sect members has Mama Misty. A search warrant authorized troopers to enter the retreat run...

I am old enough to remember two defining political events: Nixon's resignation in the last years of the Vietnam War, and The Flip Wilson Show. As a tenth-grader with delusions of anarchy I bore witness to mass moral ambiguities and saw hypocrisy exposed. I also recognized the aesthetic...

Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them. - Coco Chanel (creator of the little black brain.) With his cute little emo haircut and cock-sure strut, Christian Siriano's big win on Project Runway confirms what I've always believed: There is Nothing more boring than...

There is something honest about prostitution, but the thing to remember is that we pay whores to leave, not to stay. Sometimes, if we really have a lot money, we pay whores not to talk on television! On the new Bravo series The Millionaire Matchmaker, we meet Patti Stanger, founder...

The WGA strike has been settled, and I can honestly say that I don't want to write movies or blogs anymore: I have decided to become a nude model with the Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency. So far I have posed nude for Nike, Taco Bell and Gold Bond Powder...

This Valentines Day, diamond jewelry commercials are like Jenny Craig commercials with wings, manipulating the emotions of already broken people. The ads are aimed at the heart of that minority of folk who go to the mall and buy shit at Zales. A handsome man tip-toes up to his...

I have never watched the Super Bowl. Is that unpatriotic? Go ahead, hate me, I can take it. It gets harder every day. Sports have taken over. I can't go anywhere without seeing multiple flat screens unapologetically playing ESPN, ESPN 2, and ESPN CLASSIC. What makes them think that...

The Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire Primary were very water cooler-friendly and I heard people talking about them with an intensity and concern usually reserved for The Biggest Loser or American Idol. They have become another reality TV show to entertain and distract us till we get some...