I'm going try to be brief, since I'm a living human being, with a certain number of health problems, who's continuing to age and deteriorate as I approach antiquity. This fall, besides the usual respiratory infections, it's been a severe cervical radiculopathy, which was almost certain to need spinal surgery,...

Now is the time to let Senators and Congressmen/women know you support and insist upon a public option for your health insurance purchases. It's an "option," remember, and the more options, the better. Everyone is still free to purchase what they like. It only means there'll be a government subsidized...

I have found the last week to be one of the most politically dispiriting of my adulthood. After President Obama's address to the nation on health care, I posted an opinion piece on Huffington Post which garnered well over 600 comments, as well as dozens of emails sent directly...

I'm pretty invested in this health care bill battle. First, twenty-four years ago, when I was 24 years old, I was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. My medical treatments lasted over four years, cost close to half a million dollars, and were largely paid for by insurance coverage from my...

I'll try to be brief. People should do whatever they choose. Get married, get divorced. Run for office, resign from office. Volunteer to clean up a highway, run screaming naked down the street. Have your fun, baby, and don't let no one keep you from it.

What people should not...

It's been oodles of time since I posted, and I don't really have much to say today. I'm saddened by the passing of Farrah Fawcett, as no one should have to suffer such medical indignities - at any age, much less prior to 60 years old, as Ms. Fawcett was...

I've heard a loud public outcry from prominent gay Americans about the passage of Proposition 8, but not as much from the so called "straight" community. I think it needs to be said as loudly as possible, by as many people as possible: the passage of Proposition 8 in California...

It's good! It's great! It's all fantastic, and I'm thrilled! Really. I do mean it. But something seems to be escaping our attention amidst the exaltation. In spite of the wars, the lies, the torture, the stacking of the courts, and the rollbacks to civil liberties; in spite of the...

Strange to say? Well, it struck me while I watched Barack Obama voting on television yesterday. I saw a family, young and vital, made up of believers in the possibility of a better society. A smiling man of shining intelligence. A beautiful, well-spoken wife, with whom he seems to actually...

Yesterday I pleaded that Barack Obama might begin the process of framing, or labeling, his opponent in all the ways Republican candidates have successfully done to recent Democrats. Instead, he did more. His approach, to this point, was more subtle than what I suggested. But his speech was more masterful...

Senator Obama:

It's 2008, and I'm wondering: is Karl Rove the only person in the United States who knows how to win an election? Criticize his tactics however you like. Lambaste him, like John Kerry did last night. Call him names. But he's won the last two presidential elections for,...

A lot has been written and said since the West Virginia primary about what recent results indicate in regard to Barack Obama's chances in a general election. Some of it's been said by pundits, in print and on television, and some of it's been said by mere citizens. A lot...

Two months ago I wrote a piece for Huffington Post in which I carefully and delicately expressed my growing desire to see Barack Obama win the Democratic party's nomination for president. The main reason I outlined in that piece was my admiration for Obama's call to action from the...

This is my tenth post here at the Huffington Post. So far I've covered my invitation to blog, media madness, the so-called "mortgage crisis," Italian vs. American sensibilities, a recent reunion tour of the super group Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, and my feelings about the forgiveness sometimes afforded imposter...

Pat Morrison, whose radio show I love, writes on Huffington Post about the recently exposed fraudulent memoir Love and Consequences, "Only the memoir sets up itself, and us, for hopes and disappointment...Does our hunger for ''true stories'' feed this phony memoir machine?...What's the difference (whether a story is true or...

I am not a devotee or disciple. I am a skeptic, and remain somewhat skeptical. Still, over the past few weeks I have become convinced that Barack Obama is the better choice for the Democratic Party's presidential nominee. And, well... God help us all if that's not enough to make...

I'm sorry to "go negative" here, but there are so many repulsive things to expound upon these days. There are minor, but not meaningless, matters, such as member after member of a congressional oversight committee hobnobbing with Roger Clemens in the days before they publicly interrogate him for possibly perjuring...

I've just completed trips to two large-scale American trade shows. The first was CES, the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. The second was the 2008 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Desert heat/mountain snow. Neon lights/moonshadow. Anything you want 24 hours a day/last call before 1...

I'm a meat eater. Not necessarily red meat. In fact, I only rarely eat beef, and when I do, it's almost always a hamburger. I haven't eaten steak in years, except to take a small bite when someone says I have to. You know how that goes: "Oh, my God...this...

My wife, she ain't from around here. She's Italian, I tell people. Or she tells them herself.

"Oh, and have you ever been to Italy?" they ask her.

"I'm Italian," she says, with as much patience as she can muster. "That's where I'm from."

"Ohhhhhhhhhh...," they say. "So...