I blogged in June about client & friend Jeff Castelaz and his wife Jo Ann, who lost their beautiful 6 year old son Pablo to cancer. They had already started the Pablove Foundation, not to help themselves, but to raise awareness and money for other victims of pediatric...

I met my hero a few weeks ago.

Most people, knowing I work in Hollywood recording studios, might ask "Wow, did you meet 'insert famous musician's name here' ?"

While I have indeed met and worked with many famous people, the hero I met was a cute 6 year old...

The coverage from the LA Times on the CA Prop 8 debate is, well, like a debate. Take this, for example, inexplicably stuck in the Books section:

As of Friday, supporters of Proposition 8 had raised $27.5 million, with about 19% of the money coming from outside California....

Compared to most politicians today, the guys who wrote this, which started our whole experiment in democracy, were fire-breathing radicals.

Today, it would be a good idea for all Americans to read this. It only takes about 5 minutes, and it contains some revolutionary ideas. Some of you may even...

As I spend a lot of time around musicians and in recording studios, I'm privileged to hear some really great music and performances, as well as some that are not so great. And I've heard people complain that we don't seem to have any good political 'protest songs' today.

Illegal immigration is a problem for this country.

There, I've said it. But it's not quite the problem some make it out to be:

According to a New York Times article on April 5, 2005, "...the estimated seven million or so illegal immigrant workers in the United States...

The MSM (MainStream Media) have been late to the dance in recognizing or even considering the effect of blogs on the, well, media. Bloggers, regardless of their experience and credentials, are often derided, and depicted as amateurish and ineffectual, and their acceptance has been slow in coming.

But our friend...

Country music is often described as "people's music," telling stories about regular folks. Certainly the stereotype of songs about lost loves, favorite dogs and trucks abides, but there is really truth in the thought that it isn't "high-minded" music, but an art form rooted in the triumphs, tragedies, and pathos...

In what seems to be an oft repeated theme, the Bush Administration again put politics over policy. And that has had an effect on the forests of Southern California.

San Bernardino National Forest Supervisor Gene Zimmerman has harsh words for D.C. regarding preparations for large-scale forest fires, and was...

Finally, someone gets it. Chris Dodd has raised the issue of filibuster against the awful FISA/Telecom Amnesty bill:

While the President may think that it's right to offer immunity to those who break the law and violate the right to privacy of thousands of law-abiding Americans, I want...

One of my favs mystery writers is Sara Paretsky, who authors the V. I. Warshawski series of books. But it seems she also writes some riveting non-fiction as well, including here at Huffington Post, about the totalitarian and authoritarian goals of the...

Arianna & Huffington Post organized a special screening of the new film, The Kite Runner, on the Paramount lot last night, which we attended. This film is...

Interesting commentary on Barry Bonds:

Embarrassment? To the last-place Giants? Well, you could say that Bonds is about three years late to that realization, but that would...

God bless Al Gore, Live Earth has started, and so far, I'm pretty underwhelmed. First, it's built totally around Internet Explorer™, and any other browser is feature-limited...

I wanted to add something to the sad, angry and outraged voices decrying the President's Libby sentence commutation. But as I read the newspapers and blogs, all I could do was just say "Yeah!"

But my good friend Lambert Strether, the proprietor of the great group blog CorrenteWire had...

I grew up in a house with guns. My Grandfather (I called him Papa) had a rifle in the closet, and I used to open the closet door,...

My friend Howie Klein hosted another Blue America post at FireDogLake yesterday with Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA). Sestak, for whom Howie and Blue America raised some $$...

Small government has been a mantra of the Right forever. The extremely tarnished Grover Norquist (R-Abramoff) famously said:

"I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub."