The Huck Upchuck

Check out this surreal story: I sat there watching this interview and could not believe that this was actually real. Is it really true that...

Another catchy pop tune my kids listen to all the time. The tune grows on you, even though the video is pretty lame. Anyway, here it is: B...

Plaquemines Parish Council Chairman (or should I say "Yahoo") Don Beshel, and a Republican I should note, has come up with an out...

If there is one area (beyond his indefensible unwillingness to spend political capital to push for the end to DADT) where Obama roundly and ...

Well, I finished Chabon's novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay . It was a very good read and a well-written story. I cert...

And they deserved to. Sure, everyone plays at the top of their game when facing last year's champs; but there were so many player mista...

These fundamentalist Christian yahoos on the Texas State Board of Education are playing the victim card yet again in a thinly-veiled express...

For the life of me, I can't understand what could motivate David Vitter to be so viciously and aggressively opposed to the DREAM Act . ...

And we've hooked another one. Here's Renee Ellmers, a Tea Party-endorsed, Palinite Conservative running for a seat in the federal C...

I'm too tired to say too much on this right now, but I can't tell you how angry and disappointed I am at the moment with David Vitte...

Thinking on a comments exchange with one of my readers (Eric), I have been pondering the whole idea of federalism and states rights as it re...

I never realized it until tonight, but Michael Jackson's "moonwalk" was nothing but a rip-off of much, much better dancers who...

So, she's "dabbled in witchcraft." I guess it could have been worse. She could have "dabbled in Islam." Think abo...

I thought it was bad enough that this woman has been a moral crusader against masturbation and thinks that lying under any circumstances is ...

OK. Did a little candy making with with this kids this evening. One of my favorite sweet treats. Here's the recipe: Ingredients: 2 Cu...

Taking a group of students to the Herencia Hispana Festival at the New Orleans Museum of Art tomorrow. If you want more information on the ...

... then it IS a duck. Sarah Palin, Sharron Angle, Jan Brewer, and now Christine O'Donnell. And I could add a fair number of men to the...

I think it is instructive to hear Tea Partiers hurl out as some menacing threat to politicians the trope that "the sleeping giant has a...

I've been thinking a lot about how I would characterize my liberalism as it relates to other ideologies, and I have to say that a debate...

Lady Gaga: What???? Can't I like a little bit of nice, vacuous, cotton candy pop music every now and then????