You can't get any more Christian than my parents. They have been churchgoers for their entire lives, have sung in the choir for over 50 years, and use their faith to heal their lives and bond with their community. Unlike the "Religious Right" so popular on FOX News and various...

No matter how many Hitler mustaches or jungle bunny feathers right wing protesters paint on pictures of President Obama, conservative pundits are working overtime to assure their audience that the behavior of liberals towards Bush, and any conservative, was much, much worse. It's an exercise in behavior justification, an attempt...

I didn't go to the conservative March on Washington this weekend, but I have an idea of the hyperbolic, hysterical atmosphere, since I attended a huge anti-abortion march in Washington in the mid-90s. I will never forget the feeling of being surrounded by people who would beat the crap out...

Sarah Palin isn't stupid. She just thinks we are stupid.

She thinks we will sit there and quietly nod while she yammers like a pageant runner-up answering the final question, and speaks against divisive partisan politics after months of indulging in divisive partisan politics.

She thinks we will believe...

Conservatives are always accusing liberals of having no sense of humor and playing the victim. Now David Letterman has been forced to grovel, beg for forgiveness and apologize by a conservative with no sense of humor playing the victim.

Poor Sarah Palin. Not only did she lose the election,...

The other day I blogged (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-david/adam-lambert-loses-homoph_b_206154.html) about Adam Lambert's "American Idol" loss being due to homophobia. It got a the biggest response of any HuffPost piece I've written, both positive, negative and outright nasty. In my post, I said, "Go ahead, give me another reason" why Lambert lost. And many...

The best singer didn't win a freaking singing contest.

When Kris Allen defeated Adam Lambert as the Season 8 "American Idol," it was, as predicted, a seismic upset. The Chicago Sun-Times said, "David slayed Goliath." Endless bloggers posted reactions like "The biggest robbery since Bush stole the election" and...

Back on March 17 I blogged about Adam Lambert's huge talent after seeing only two of his early American Idol performances. I believe I was one of the first to write about him and was afraid I would come across as too over-the-top in my praise and ultimately be...

I was always obsessed with American Idol, since I wanted to be a rock star but possessed not an ounce of the required talent. Then I swore it off when two lesser talents defeated the phenomenal Melinda Doolittle and I threw the television against the wall, which at least forced...

Sarah Palin is now headlining the Blame The Media Tour, a popular circuit for defeated conservatives previously starring (insert name here), going after all those horrible pundits and comedians who conspired to ruin her reputation, trash her family, and on and on. It's their fault, not hers.

I'm sorry,...

Gays Threaten Churchgoers! Fags Brandish Firearms! Read All About It!

Meet the latest Religious Right propaganda - Killer Homos. Because of Christian promoted antigay marriage amendments like Proposition 8 and a ban on unmarried adoption in Arkansas, gays have been protesting like the good old days when ACT-UP invaded...

Not since The China Syndrome, a film about a nuclear power plant accident released a week before a nuclear power plant accident, has a movie's release been more timely than Gus Van Sant's Milk. For the last two weeks, gays across America have taken to the streets protesting antigay ballot...

Tuesday night I was returning from the airport to Manhattan in a cab driven by a Hatian cab driver just at 11pm when the election was called for Obama. He began screaming, honking the horn, and yelling out the window "O-BA-MA!!!" He said, "Man, you don't know what this means...

"These are desperate times, Mrs. Lovett, and desperate measures must be taken." - Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street, on deciding to become a murderous cannibal.

Back in 1998 while performing at Atlanta's Punchline, two weeks after the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky story broke, I...

Discussing Alaska Governor and now Vice-Presidential nominee Sarah Palin, my mother remarked, "Well, we know how John McCain likes younger women. I wonder if he'll get tired of her, like he did his first wife, and then pick Katie Holmes."

McCain has chosen the anti-Cheney: a charming dame who...

Dear Ms. Crowley,

I heard your replay of the spoof of the McCain mom and child ad, written and performed by my friend and colleague Laurie Kilmartin, who created it for 23/6. You gave yourself credit for it, and yet you did not write...

Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan is channeling his inner Jiminy Cricket and making his mea culpa tour after years of lying to us gullible folks. Already he has been labeled a "disgruntled former employee."

I only hear the word "disgruntled" in combination with the words...

Times are hard, and our trusted TV hosts, who should know better, are becoming unglued. New York WNBC's anchor Sue Simmons, who I have watched since puberty and always seen as a paragon of professionalism, screamed "What the fuck are you doing?" in an on-air promo.

Dear Mr. Blitzer, Mr. Hannity, Mr. Colmes, Mr. O'Reilly, Ms. Ingraham, Mr. King, Mr. Hume, and anyone else paying attention:

Since I travel for work and spend more hours in hotel rooms than a $5 hooker, I know the reason windows in hotels don't open anymore--so people like me...

You will remember Dan Butler from his role as "Bulldog," the testosterone addled sportscaster on Frasier. Also featured in dozens of films, TV shows and plays, he's one of those talents perpetually relegated to supporting actor status, or, as he describes himself, "Tonto."

He finally gets top billing as the...