Seventeen years ago, it was freezing. Seventeen years ago, they were all snowed in by a terrible blizzard. Seventeen years ago, in Amish country Pennsylvania, if there was a blizzard you weren’t getting out of your house for at least a week because the land was forgotten by snow plows […]

It is time to take a break from the gloom and doom in Washington and the Middle East and look at for some better news about the future of energy. Every day I look at a web site run by the folks over at Green Car Congress. Now the Congress’ […]

Republicans took control of the House of Representatives in 2010, under the assumption that government doesn’t work. From day one, they’ve gone about trying to prove it. In a case of the tail wagging the dog, House Republicans, led by radical Tea Party elements within their caucus, have pursued reckless, […]

Since taking back control of the House in the 2010 midterm elections, House Republicans have carefully and purposefully tried to roll back laws protecting women’s rights that assure them equal opportunities for success. From delays in passing the Violence Against Women Act to harmful attempts at undermining reproductive rights, the […]

A recent obsession of mine is a new television program on Showtime, called “Masters of Sex.” It chronicles the work of a doctor/scientist in the ’50s conducting a “smut”-ridden project to learn about human sexuality and its affects on the body. In addition to being a show filled with personal […]

Voice of the Voiceless founder Christopher Doyle thought he conducted an “undercover” investigation in September when he infiltrated LGBT resource centers at Virginia’s public universities. His goal was to see if they were disseminating information on “ex-gay” programs. However, this foolish effort was akin to going “undercover” in a supermarket […]

With great relevance to what’s going on with the Tea Party in Washington, D.C. right now, in March 2012, this column was devoted to a two-part series entitled, “When America Almost Went Fascist (Really!).” It told the story contained in author Sally Denton’s just-published book, The Plots Against the President: […]

In the long, hot Houston Summers of my youth, we would often kill time in our neighborhood by playing board games. There was one kid we never wanted to play with, but he always found a way to weasel his way into the game. As long as he was winning, […]

A short history: The Hermes Birkin bag is iconic. Featured and heralded as the second coming of Jesus in fashion circles since its invention, the Birkin bag is the be-all, end-all of secret luxury. Waiting lists reach into the years, the cost is outrageous, and the exclusivity is unparalleled. This […]

Make no mistake, what’s going on in Washington, D.C. now involves a batch of right-wing elected officials who are refusing to accept the outcome of the 2012 presidential election, and are doing everything in their power to overthrow it. That, ladies and gentlemen, is nothing less than a total disrespect […]