The time has come, the walrus said, to talk of many things: of shoes and ships and sealing wax and... NATIONALIZATION.

That word makes a lot of Joseph McCarthy's children see red -- but it's time to step out of the looking glass and put a little blush in...

How much would you bet that Reverend Ted Haggard falls off the wagon in the very near future?

I'm serious. I know he just got a big check to shut up and leave town,...

What's Better Than A Texas Whuppin'?

Sure, I chuckle along with Tom DeLay's homegrown description of last night's election results... but it gives me pause.

The GOP's agenda has been rejected because Americans want the beatings to stop.

To my mind, it began with the milk cartons-- not the Washington pages.

One day, my breakfast bowl of cereal was no longer accompanied by a back-of-the-box advertisement for secret decoder rings or action-toy figurines.

Instead, the graphic that held my attention was the back of the...

I am having an unexpected reaction to Congressman Foley's sex scandal.

--Not surprised that a gay-bashing, flag-waving, "save-the-children" Republican turns out to be a closeted chicken hawk who harasses cute boy pages in the House of Representatives.

--Not taken aback if the entire House leadership knew about...

Arianna Huffington is one of my most wellknown publishers -- but her original identity is as an author. We saw each other at the BlogHer conference this summer, and I asked if I could interview...

When it comes to fear, perhaps the greatest one of all is the fear of not being able to go on. The fear of living itself. It doesn't make for easy conversation, either.

My friend Kate Bornstein has just written a book called Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives...

Behold the Bible-Strict marriage manual. These earnest Xtian bestsellers instruct newlyweds on how to have hot sex while avoiding all fantasies, masturbation-- and of course, the dreaded sodomy. Oral sex is good-to-go because no one can seem to find a gospel-line against it!

All the world's pushiest religions have...

By now, many of you know that the only celebudick in more trouble than Mel Gibson is Girls Gone Wild fiendmeister, Joe Francis.

The LA Times nailed Francis to the wall for assaulting one of their reporters and repeatedly putting on exhibitions of himself as a sadistic predator...

Wherefore art thou, girl geek?

I'm home from Blogher, the women's blogging meet-up, that happened this past weekend. 750 women bloggers... kind of shocking. We all came out of our cubbyholes.

I've never been to an IT gathering of any kind before. I live on the coast next...

First, I spoke to women. I responded to the needs of the unheard minority -- the gals who have had it up to here with tips on sexual...

I got a phone call from a Cosmo magazine, asking me to contribute a tip for their upcoming feature, "How to Improve Your Sex Life in 30 Days." The...

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There's a new twist to the exposé from the Times about the world of "underage Internet porn." It's disturbing on many levels.

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I was sliding on my butt around on the kitchen floor, trying to catch and force my sick cat to swallow a giant blue pill, while my eight-year-old daughter stood over us, watching us with complete disdain.

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I was first introduced to the radiance of Bettie Page in 1983, by the editors of a gay leathermen's magazine. They lent me a VHS bondage tape of Bettie modeling...