Wow...  Just watch. TESTIMONY - Music by Stephen Schwartz Lyrics taken from and inspired by the It Gets Better Project http://bit.ly/T...

Being an American living overseas is  always  an interesting  experience.  Regardless of your political affiliations you find yourself havin...

(via afer.org)    Last night was the West Coast premier of   "8"  Featuring an all-star cast including George Clooney, Brad Pitt,...

(hat tip to the Huffington Post ) Seriously cool video taken from a remote control model helicopter.   I'm not homesick.. really...  (...

(hat tip to Xtra ) Canadian-born painter Steve Walker died at his home in Costa Rica on Jan 4, 2012. He was 50.  Walker was a self-ta...

Back in June of 1987, I visited Berlin for the first time.  Standing in  front of the Wall  at  Brandenburg Gate, I  listened to President R...

Recent solar flare activity has resulted in spectacular  Northern Lights  this year.  Now thanks to  NASA  we all get to see what it looks l...

Here is the full court decision upholding the original decision that ruled  California's  Proposition 8, (the ban of same sex marriag...

I will confess to  living, to a certain extent in a bubble.   London is a wonderfully diverse, cosmopolitan and progressive  city.    Before...

I just returned  to London from a two week business trip back to the  United States.  I was in  New York,  Los Angeles  and then  took a cou...

The  wingnuts of the   America Taliban .  (the ultra religious conservatives who form the power brokerage of the base of the  Republican Par...

Well we  made it  to  the U.S. Just fine.  I am sitting in my parents kitchen  in Waunakee, Wisconsin  as I type this  blog entry. Big  th...

Who's ready to go back to Middle Earth?  :)

There has been  various  reactions to the  news  that  North Korean  dictator Kim Jong-il  has  shuffled off his mortal coil.   The North K...

We have a little bit of Christmas mystery on our hands.  Today we received a package addressed to both Eric and I that contained this ...

It has not been a good week  if you are a  bigoted  Gay-hating  evangalooney-toon member of the American Taliban.   First,  U.S.  Secretary ...