Maybe it's another Clinton running for president or maybe its American Gladiators being back on television or maybe it was the late night monologue jokes during the writer's strike -- but I'm suffering from some déjà vu. It's all sounding vaguely familiar -- I've seen this -- heard it before....

My grandparents just celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary. They got hitched right after Grampa got back from the war. They're both educated professionals. They're proud Americans. We come from a long line of Southern Democrats. My grandparents, the mavericks, are first generation lifelong Republicans. Grampa has a portrait of Ronald...

I was born into the group the Children of God (COG) or as they are called now, the Family International -- a Christian cult that started in the late '60's made up of dropout hippies in Huntington Beach. They went 'international' after the leader was sought for kidnapping and tax...

Rebranding is an All-American pastime. If necessity is the mother of invention - then bad press is the mother of re-invention . It's not just Chevron, while having record profits on oil, trying to get the word out about conservation. Or Frito-Lay, whose non-recyclable chip bags...

I love swag. I do. Free stuff! I have a menagerie of acquired t-shirts in my closet ranging from production companies to Bar Mitzvahs and everything in between.

Through my swag infatuation I discovered American Apparel. I was given a t-shirt that fit perfectly and I googled the...

We're doing well as a country when the Religious Right is unhappy. When James Dobson and Pat Robertson are upset, the canary is alive in the coal mine!

It's like -- look at us, we're still a democratic nation! The Ten Commandments haven't replaced the Bill of Rights....

Former Mexican President Vicente Fox claims George W. Bush is afraid of horses. Bush's Crawford, Texas, ranch is reportedly "equestrian-free." It's a little shocking. It's kind of funny. But more than that it adds to my theory that Bush has contempt for anything smart and hardworking (see Valerie...

It's pretty safe to say that gay marriage is getting more presidential candidate support now than in any other time in our nation's history. There's former Alaska Sen. Mike Gravel, Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich...okay, there's two. You can't accuse Kucinich of just playing to his vegan base...