Every year at tax time, I have to take it on faith that the big chunk of money I am giving the federal government won't be used to help anybody less fortunate than me. But something tells me that, despite the cover letter I include with my 1040 every year...

Man, if the cuts go as deep as everyone is saying they will after the sequester, I'm really worried that my research into an app that helps you find out which members of Congress are douchebags will remain tragically under-funded.

It...

Maybe you're tossing a few bucks into the office pool to see if you can predict the winners of this year's Academy Awards. Well, why throw your money away on trying to guess which narcissist in formal wear is going to take home the little gold statue? Why not vote...

Shakespeare's sonnets or Browning's outpourings of love are perfectly okay if you want to surround your Valentine with dripping, but ultimately unrealistic sentiment this February 14. Better, perhaps, to have these more down-to-earth, achievable notions of romance in your hip pocket when you want to impress your beloved with the...

Oh, please. I had the idea for a more just, verdant and peaceful world, like, a million years ago. So, you can imagine how I feel every time I hear a Public Broadcasting underwriting announcement in which those big shots at the John D....

Tired of being asked to care about every misfortune that may befall your fellow man?

Fed up with your hard-earned money going to help those less fortunate?

Sick of having to feel compassion every time you see a homeless...

In a move that many neighborhood councils are calling "encouraging," new federal legislation has been rushed through that requires anyone caught simply tossing a used Christmas tree on the sidewalk for someone else to deal with to be forced to eat it....

Hi, everyone, it's me, God. Hey, I'm just like anyone else. I feel the need to take stock of things as we bid farewell to the year just passed and usher in the year ahead. I hope you will find some inspiration in knowing that I have issues, the same...

During a routine news broadcast moments ago, National Public Radio broke into its regular programming to alert listeners to the availability of something called the Herman Miller Aeron Chair, which was apparently in stock at several retail outlets called Sit4Less nationwide.

"I had...

Movie theater employees across America make sure to prepare themselves for an onslaught of cackling, innuendo-spouting packs of young women whenever a movie like Sex and the City or Magic Mike hits the nation's cinemas. But when those same groups of loud, boisterous girlfriends...

With all due respect to my friends who are always telling me how relaxing and life-affirming it is to live in the moment, I hope it will be okay with you if I put off reading The Power of Now until tomorrow....

Zombies and ghouls are not the only dead things that were once something we held dear. Many of the basic tenets of a civilized society have kicked the bucket, too. May these bone-chilling tombstones serve as a moving tribute to the dear departed.

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I'm not sure you're aware of the historical significance here. Should Mitt Romney become president, it would mean the American people have voted a white man into the highest elected office in the nation for the first time in four years.

It's hard...

"This is a slap in the face to the very foundation of our belief system," said one CEO, who took a break...

It has happened this way throughout our history, and we should be used to it by now.

The overtures have been made, the opening salvos thrown, and each candidate in the campaign to secure the desired outcome has painstakingly made the case for...