A couple of years ago I was hired to write a screenplay about Edwin Hubble and his assistant Milton Humason, who between them revolutionized humankind's view of the universe.

Working from the Mt. Wilson observatory that looms in the distance over Los Angeles, they discovered that the blurry patches...

For those who follow the debate over Peak Oil - the idea that world oil production is peaking or is about to peak, and will then decline with disastrous results for the global economy - this has been a banner year for the Peak Oil side.

First, oil prices spiked...

Well, another Earth Day has come and gone. And amid all the articles and blogs, symposia and TV specials about all the things we can do to save the planet, once again it was hard to find any substantive discussion of the single biggest threat to the environment.

I could write a tribute of the day. But why write when you can...cakewalk?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvhrrFP3L2E

Ah ha, I knew it! Barack Obama supports same-sex marriage after all. (Or at least he did before he set his sights on national office.)

That's the eye popping news this week from a gay newspaper in Chicago.

The Windy City Times dug through its archives and...

Every once in a while history reaches a point of real cognitive dissonance.

I'm beginning to wonder if we are such a point right now. I'm referring to the astounding rise in the price of oil over the last couple of years, the concept of 'peak oil,' and the...

As Israel turns 60, a new obstacle is emerging to join all the other obstacles to the much-vaunted two-state solution. Namely, the fact that increasing numbers of Palestinians now dismiss a two-state solution in favor of a one-state solution in which the West Bank, Gaza and Israel become a unified...

When I was seven I had a huge crush on Charlton Heston, who died this week at 83. The chiseled jaw. The booming basso-profundo voice. The wiry physique. Just My type.

Of course, at seven I had no idea he was going to turn out to be such a...

Will Smith found himself in hot water last week after making a statement to a Scottish newspaper that Adolph Hitler "didn't wake up going, 'let me do the most evil thing I can do today.' I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he...

The decision by the Democratic leadership in Congress to eliminate transgendered people from ENDA, the bill to ban discrimination against gays in the workplace, has ignited a genuine firestorm in gay political circles.

It's heartening to see that LGBT activists are coming out of the woodwork to insist that any...

A few months ago I blogged on this space to criticize the fact that GLAAD, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, did not allow the gay media to compete for its famous GLAAD Media Awards.

The subject came to light thanks to a letter circulated by here!TV's Stephen Macias,...

WASHINGTON - Surgery on Vice President Dick Cheney's heart pacemaker was abruptly cancelled Saturday when doctors failed to find the organ in question.

"It's ze damnest thing," said Dr. Mengele von Odduch, Cheney's personal physician and spin doctor. "Ze last time vee looked, his heart was dark, shriveled und cold,...

Tammy Faye's death this weekend brought a lot of sadness to the millions she touched, including me. But it also swamped me with a flood of happy memories.

Having co-produced Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato's film The Eyes of Tammy Faye -- a documentary that in no small way...

I recently blogged on this site to take issue with Andrew Sullivan for his relentless campaign to convince gay men that the AIDS epidemic is effectively over and to get us to stop worrying about HIV -- even though HIV transmission rates among gay men gallop along at tragic levels...

It's Gay Pride Month. That means parades, floats, garden parties -- and more articles by Andrew Sullivan proclaiming the 'end of AIDS.'

It's one of the most shockingly irresponsible claims ever made in the context of gay men and AIDS, and it represents a mindset whose consequences couldn't be...

The story of a horrifying murder in rural Indiana has begun making the rounds of the blogs, where it's being compared to the crucifixion of Matthew Shepard.

But the story's twists and turns, as disgusting as they are tragic, have gone largely unreported outside blogs like Daily Kos and...

President Bush nominated James Holsinger as the nation's new Surgeon General last week.

Dr. Holsinger's big focus is on childhood obesity -- a worthy cause -- and he is so widely regarded in the halls of power that The Economist called him "an entirely innocuous choice" and headlined its...

Every year The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) hands out its Media Awards in a star-studded Hollywood gala that increasingly looks like a gay Oscars. But this year a cloud hangs over GLAAD's red carpet. A nasty little secret has come to light that many in the industry...

For years, critics of the Atkins diet argued that if anyone ever conducted a study that pitted Atkins head to head with other, more 'healthy' diets, it would prove beyond a doubt that the Atkins regimen of low carbs and high protein (and fat) will kill you deader than a...

I know it might sound a tad morbid, but one of my favorite parts of the Oscar telecast is the memorial to industry greats who died over the past year. But this year I noticed a strange omission, and that got me digging around to find out who is included,...