Grammy can't seem to win. When I first joined the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS), the organization that gives away the Grammy, the biggest complaint was that Grammy was not relevant; that they rewarded songs and artists that weren't necessarily popular. But that was their job; making...

December 1, 2009, World AIDS Day, President Barack Obama came forward in front of shiny new cadets at Westpoint to make his case for not only the continued war in Afghanistan but for an escalation, a surge. The speech was to be decisive, it was to lay out the where,...

It happens every year in homes all across America. While millions sit down to watch parades and football and prepare to feast on roast beast surrounded by loved ones and others laugh and dance in the kitchen while reciting lines from "All About Eve." Holidays are a time for gatherings...

People are bigots. Yes, most believe that their opinion is the right one and often refuse to bend on many issues. Maine's repeal of the their same sex marriage law is proof of that. But it's not the bigots in Maine, in California or any other state where they have...

How could any American, any human, stand by as another is brutally raped? How could other Americans join in, jeer, take photos and videos with their cell phones as a 15 year old girl has man after man crawl on top of her drunken body, as she's held down to...

In an effort to clear the haze around the murky medical marijuana situation in the United States, Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday issued what many are hailing as a huge loosening of the ropes on the 14 states with medical marijuana clinics.

Deputy Attorney General David W. Ogden issued...

Monday, October 12, 2009, and not one thing on this wintry morning has changed for one gay person in America in terms of equality. In fact, in some states in the country, it continues, without impediment, to get worse. Maine legalized same sex marriage, and now a fierce ballot battle...

"I don't know why President Barack Obama is firing me, I want to do my job, I want to do my duty," Lt. Dan Choi recently wondered aloud while waiting to go off to an event on 9/11. This 28-year-old Korean American was at Ground Zero on this Sept. 11,...

I am leaving the Democratic party. It is with heavy heart that I change my affiliation to Independent. I'm 46, have been a registered Democrat since I was 18. My parents were from the East Coast, and proud Democrats. But it took the Democrats taking over, being in power, for...

There's a wacked out reward system going on in world culture these days and the concept of responsibility and/or repercussions is as obtuse as the Octomom getting a reality TV show.

A cop, who may or may not be racist, arrests America's foremost African American scholar, who may or may...

While live theatre may be a dying art, Legally Blonde: The Musical is breathing new life in to a new generation's theatre experience.

Nothing can replace a night of live theatre. While many in the Youtube/Tivo/iPod generation think a flat panel of any size...

Today, August 12, 2009, the first openly gay man to be elected in the state of California, Harvey Milk, will be given the Medal of Freedom Award by President Barack Obama. It's a well deserved award, one too many years in the making. But like everything else done for or...

The King of Pop died the same day as Farrah Fawcett, eclipsing her loss that June 25th and turning the entire music world on its ear. The most famous living Pop star in the world drops of cardiac arrest while rehearsing...

Today, my first poster girl, Farrah Fawcett died. In the 9am hour on a June Gloom day the smile and hair that set the tone for a generation and the body and face that created the gold standard of movie star posters died of the Big C, cancer.

And it...

In this day and age of astronomical sums being bandied about like pocket change, a billion dollars -- or even four billion -- may not seem like a lot of money. But given that the United States is bleeding to death a billion at a time, when the pot is...

The Democratic Party, as stated, does not exist any longer; in fact, it hasn't for some time. The people that call themselves Democrats, the leaders of the party, have all morphed in to one political animal, part of a larger, non-identified party that proports to stand for something but has...

California Court Proves Theocracy Alive and Well

It's a shame gay means happy, because today in California there's not much for anyone to be happy about, and I mean anyone that knows or understands government or the Constitution of the State or country for that matter.

Today the State Supreme...

More marines have died stateside in 2008 than in Iraq or Afghanistan on motorcycles according to a Pentagon report published in USA Today May 7th, 2009, prompting new directives requiring service members to undergo extensive safety training including psychological assessments.

Robert Gladden is the director of the Motorcycle Safety Foundation...

Joe the Plumber is queer by his own definition. In the evangelical magazine Christianity Today he stated that "People don't understand the dictionary, it's called queer. Queer means strange and unusual, it's not like a slur, like calling a White guy a honky or anything..." He went on to say...

**It's Not True

The headline "Majority Of Muslims That Attend Mosque Weekly Feel Torturing For Their Cause Is Just" got your attention, didn't it? It's not true, I made it up, but the thought of it probably already angered some. It wouldn't surprise me, however. After all,...