to "Teach Them a Lesson," One Killed..... Found this at Weasel Zippers via The Jawa Report. International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on March 2 a group of 25 Muslim radicals attacked the women and children of a Christian neighborhood in Pakistan while the male inhabitants were absent, ...

Teenage relationships are so confusing. Were they this complicated when I was a teenager? Or do teenagers just thrive on making things difficult? A few weeks ago the 16-year-old went to a girl’s volley ball game to watch his “sorta girlfriend” play. “Sorta girlfriend?” ...

For only $19.99 plus $6.99 shipping and handling you too can own this ugly collectable monkey. It’s brought to you by the same company that makes the creepy ass collectible “babies” that they try to sell in the coupon section of the paper every week. I find something deeply disturb...

There is something about the desert that makes me feel more deeply connected to the universe than any other environment.  I know this sounds very new age-y and hippy spiritual, but it is the best I can come up with in the limited amount of time I am interested in spending at my keyboard right ...

The other day I had a chat with my teens about sexting. Sexting is the term used when teens send naked, or nearly naked, pictures of themselves to a significant other via picture messaging on their cell phones. My teens hadn’t heard of the term “sexting,” but they do know people wh...

AP 3/6/2009 WASHINGTON – The CIA destroyed a dozen videotapes of harsh interrogations of terror suspects, according to documents filed Friday in a lawsuit over the government's treatment of detainees. The 12 tapes were part of a larger collection of 92 videotapes of terror suspects that the CIA de...

After being pretty sedentary for most of the winter I’ve decided to start being a little more active. I’ve been working out several times a week and even joined a hip hop class for completely uncoordinated women over 30. (Ok, maybe I’m the only uncoordinated one, but we are all ove...

Lilly pads at the Getty Villa. / Photo by Julie Wolfson via LAist's flickr pool. LEARNING* Do you have aspirations to be the next Kevin Bronson or Josh Kun? Do you have a passion for all things music? Then think about coming tonight to 826LA East’s first adult writing seminar “Writing Ab...

Below the surface Wednesday and outside the hearing rooms, a budget battle between Gov. M. Jodi Rell and the legislature's Democratic majority began to bubble up to the surface. Early in the day Rell said negotiations to secure $295 million in concessions from the state's approximately 50,000 union ...

Technology often gets a bad rap. With instant messaging and cell phones, face-to-face conversations are a thing of the past. With video games and television, we aren’t as active as we used to be. But there are some good things too. Like when I call my teenager who is upstairs in the kitchen an...