One of the few remaining moderate Republicans in the Senate, Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, is facing multiple primary challenges to his candidacy in 2010 from more conservative opponents. This is to the delight of Democrats who feel they would have a better shot of grabbing another Senate seat...

Advocates for Youth has been busy organizing activists for the 2009 Global Week of Action, March 30-April 3, focusing on a different global health issue each day. March 30: Access to Essential Medicines March 31: Health Care Workers April 1: HIV and AIDS April 2: Sexual and Reproductive Health April...

The court threw out much of the evidence in a case against American intelligence operatives, ruling that prosecutors had violated state secrecy....

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton maintained her perfect record of suck-up diplomacy with the Chinese tyranny when she emerged from her meeting with Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi today to announce they’d agreed to let bygones be bygones on the little contretemps between an unarmed U.S. surveillanc...

"The engagement is off for the teenage daughter of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and the father of her baby."...

"The engagement is off for the teenage daughter of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and the father of her baby."...

When I asked you, kind readers, last week what you do to mix things up when in a creative slump, I got some really excellent feedback. Thank you so much. It's given me much to think about and the idea that sometimes thinking is not what I should be doing.  On the same day I took the bird photos in ...

I just now realized that there's audio of my interview at NYC24 (click "read aobut it" then put your cursor over my photo to listen) for their vice issue (we taped the interview at bakery Butter Lane in the East Village, which made for some interesting moments when words like "sex toys" left my mout...

There are also lots more hotel sex interviews over at the official Do Not Disturb: Hotel Sex Stories blog. And you can now watch the trailer and get lots of info about the book at Blazing Trailers (which Donna George Storey in fact referred me to - great site if you want to spread the word about you...

Well, joining the mile high club is technically free, save for airfare, which I'm aware of. But you can read erotica writer Ryan Field's hot mile high club story for free, available as a download from Ravenous Romance. Know what else? A version of that story, called "Bert and Betty," is in my brand-...