Eric S. Margolis March 11, 2009 Special for the Huffington Post NEW YORK - Iran has haunted every U.S. administration since the days of President Jimmy Carter. While running for president, Barack Obama proposed opening talks with Tehran and trying to end the long Cold War between the United States a...

The new gig I started in December as the company's technical architect ("technical" to make the distinction that it's not "information architect") has been an interesting experience for me thus far. My experience at Insurance.com was excellent in so many ways, because the processes were entirely sol...

Paul and I spent last week vacationing in St. Maarten. It was fabulous. For anyone that isn't familiar, St. Maarten is split between too countries, Sint Maarten, which is the Dutch half and Saint Martin, which is the French half. We staying in Philipsburg, which is the capital of the Dutch half and ...

I had a strange Sunday. I wasn’t sure if it was the shifting hour for daylight savings time or some weird horoscope retrograde thing or some other vibe. Sunday wasn’t strange in a bad way. It was strange in a way that if events were to play out in a movie, it would be directed by Jim Jar...

I actually finally got serious and decided to look at the 12 steps. I have been meaning to go to Al Anon for months, but between the drama in my life and my pregnancy (and now a newborn) tonight is the first time I'm finding time. I have no childcare, so attending a meeting at the moment is impossib...

This entry is part 48 of 48 in the series lgbt hate crimes project When I moved to D.C. in the mid-nineties, as a single, young, gay man, one of the first things I did was to get my first personal computer. The second thing I did was to get an AOL account. (I’m dating myself here, but that was...

in In These Times: ...Making your marriage sacred should be between you and your goddy thing. Making your union legal, on the other hand, should be between you and state-guaranteed legal and human rights. And it should be available to any two people, gay or straight, in whatever configuration: Mothe...

I usually don't talk about myself in this space. I have always figured that that however many of you there are that actually read this blog would probably rather hear about racing and not me. This time, however, I'm going to change it up a notch or two. I've been around Atlanta Motor Speedway at lea...

TO THINE OWN FACE BE OBVIOUS: A new portrait of William Shakespeare was revealed today after 399 years, proving that Shakespeare looked even more like we thought he did than we thought he did. (NY Times) LESS SEXY TAXICAB CONFESSIONS: Tom Cruise makes Katie Holmes give him written confessions every ...

Mark Steyn in NRO: There is a great deal in Mr. Steyn's piece to mull over and here are a few thoughts of my own. British prime minister Gordon Brown thought long and hard about what gift to bring on his visit to the White House last week. Barack Obama is the first African-American president, so the...