I woke up to see a brilliant sunny and cold day here in London. It is one of those early Winter days were the sunlight has that particu...

32 Years ago, in 1982,  Ridley Scott's  ground breaking Sci-Fi movie. "Bladerunner" painted a stunning vision  of what Los An...

Many of my friends are shocked  when they learn that I,  used to be a Republican.  How could I,  a good progressive Gay man ever have been ...

The  recent  court victories in the United States have made this year's  National Coming Out Day something of a celebration in many p...

 

Wednesday October 7th, 1998 was a fairly ordinary day in Chicago. I was working for a small consulting firm in the near West suburb of Oa...

The United States Supreme Court today, declined to hear legal appeals from 5 states seeking to overturn lower court decisions that ruled th...

Once Upon a Time...  Wars  were  declared by Congress... The  United States Constitution explains  the powers to declare war this way:...

(The following is an updated repost  of an entry from Sept. 11th, 2011) Today the media, and the blogposphere will undoubtedly be f...

In the Spring of 1991,  I was a student  at the University of Wisconsin,  one day I was  asked to come to the University  housing directo...

From what is unquestionably the greatest episode ever of "Inside the Actor's Studio"      

In the wake of the electoral defeats  they suffered  in 2012,  the  Republican Party  has struggled to find a path  to broaden its appeal...

A brilliant  take on how we are short changing our own future by  Neil deGrasse Tyson

Social Media is a funny odd thing... You are never quite sure who out there is paying attention to whatever you lob out into the nether...

The following piece has been making the re-posting rounds on social media, I stumbled across it on Facebook. I don't know what the...