There is a deep dark sensation that haunts me, and will always.  8 years ago today I was awakened at 3:33AM and sat straight up in bed.  I felt the evil coming.  It passed through the deepest part of my warrior soul.

I screamed out loud, and woke Chris out...

Congress is finally back from their "listening tours" during the Summer recess, and it has become clear that they are still hedging their bets.  Despite the right wing noise machine's need to disrupt, distort, and dismember (read: D.O.A.) the health care reform effort; the President seems to have evolved and...

Right before network deadline time yesterday, it became clear that corporate health care companies were digging in on Congressional Democrats. These companies -- the same entities that have doubled the average American's insurance premiums, hooked millions of people on prescription drugs for life, and discriminated against individuals with pre-existing conditions...

With the announcement late tonight that Google is set to release an operating system, the time has come to ask "Why can't we have it all?"

Everywhere in marketing you see the battle between Apple's OS X and its truly high-functioning stable of software offerings, vs. Microsoft's less-reliable OS on...

I was appalled to learn the Illinois General Assembly had adjourned without a budget bill. Governor Quinn and state legislators just couldn't come to to the table and at least halt the bleeding. At a reported $100,000.00, they all showed up for a special session to do nothing, and meanwhile...

There is a sad reality to being in a "minority group" in the United States.

Despite politicians' and pundits' trumpeting of our nation as being the "most free nation on Earth," Americans still have hypocritical double-standards about Gays, Lesbians, Bisexual, Transgendered, and Questioning Americans.

This is especially true when it...

On the 65th Anniversary of D-Day, a local Progressive radio host and national Progressive media star teamed together to fight for the American worker Saturday during a Chicago-based "Salute To Labor" live radio broadcast.

Chicago's Progressive Talk, AM 820/FM 92.5/92.7/99.9, aired the special edition of Dick Kay's "Back on the...

Ed Note: Spoilers

If you're a Trekkie, and I mean a REAL HARD CORE Trekkie; well, you're going to have a problem with the first third of Star Trek. Maybe.

Then again, maybe you'll LOVE this movie. Yep, I think so.

Last night Paramount Pictures hosted the sneak preview event...

Before the Obama Administration gives Bank of America a damn dime, it needs to lay down the law with all 19 of America's largest banks.

For nearly my entire lifetime, now at 38 years, large banks have gradually become predatory in nature; disguising themselves as being "better for the consumer"...

Tonight I am canceling my MySpace account.

First, I messaged everyone in my address book, and told them why.

Rupert Murdoch only understands one thing. Eyeballs + Ears = Money.

When the New York Post Wednesday published an editorial cartoon by artist Sean Delonas picturing a chimpanzee being shot...

In his biennial budget proposal Tuesday, Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle announced the first Domestic Partnership protections proposed by any Midwestern U.S. state. The basic protections include hospital visitation rights and Family Medical Leave rights for same-sex domestic partners in committed relationships.

In a statement published and released to the media...

The oldest phrase in politics is the adage "Politics Make Strange Bedfellows." I have in my years around the bend in politics and business made a lot of friends on the other side, many of them old-line Republican leaders (i.e. reasonable, thinking, patriotic, centrist). These folks have really had it...

There are a lot of ways that Christians differ between various denominations.  Like Muslims, Buddhists, Jews, and scores of other world religions; your beliefs emanate largely from your particular slice of your chosen Christian sect.  This time, it would seem that I am at odds with my Christian brother Rev....

When I was a kid, I used to get a kick out of taking a quick run out to the barn to sit in my great-grandpa's old '34 Chevy Pickup. The standard paint job, a forest green, took all who viewed the old truck back to the depression era. Built...

So far Barack Obama has been pretty smart in making choices for his cabinet and his inaugural festivities. A rare misstep, the choice of Pastor Rick Warren for his Inaugural, is a serious one; and it should put the GLBTQ community on alert about whether or not Obama really has...

This time of year is often melancholy for me, and I often am asked why I tend to be a bit cranky just before Thanksgiving. Rarely have I ever revealed the real reason. Five years ago in November I was diagnosed HIV positive.

Following a serious bout with symptoms that...

Halloween is upon us, and there's a spooky mist hanging in the air. As the moon rises, the mist suddenly parts, revealing an old white haired man standing between you and the gates to The White House. "Obama will raise your taxes!" he screams. "He's not one of us!" he...

The Badger State woke up Monday morning to hear that neither the McCain-Palin, nor Obama-Biden presidential campaigns considers Wisconsin "in play" due to recent polling. Morning TV programs across the state also broke news that because of Obama's double-digit lead in certain polls, neither candidate plans an in-person appearance before...

Even though Othanniel Velgara isn't a student anymore, he had to get up early last Saturday morning to be at UIC's Student Center for class anyway. Velgara took time out of his morning to train as a Polling Place Administrator (PPA) for the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners. The...

John McCain spent the week grandstanding, while everyone else in Congress worked to solve the Financial crisis; and then showed up pretending to have solved the problem himself. The reality, of course, is that everyone else in Congress had worked out a solution to the crisis without either McCain or...