One hot day in July, Joni decided to take a dive in the cold waters of Chesapeake Bay . After the dive, she felt something hit her head, and then many things happened simultaneously. Her body sprawled out of control; she heard or felt a loud electric buzzing and unexplainable inner sensation. But sh...

This week we’re lucky to have Elizabeth Lunday, author of Secret Lives of Great Artists: What Your Teachers Never Told You about Master Painters and Sculptors guest blogging with us. Every day this week, she’ll be spilling the dirt on the artists you thought you knew. We’ll let her...

A Book Review: American Gothic: A Life of America's Most Famous Painting by Steven Biel When I first saw the painting, I was a child in Wilkes-Barre, PA. Although I couldn't identify the architectural style, I though the widow was pretty and was drawn it its exotic essence, for it was outsid...

In 2003, Dave Isay created StoryCorps to record intimate interviews between loved ones and friends. In 2007, StoryCorps published 50 of their favorite stories in the New York Times best-seller Listening Is an Act of Love . We’ll let them take it from here: Around twenty-five years ago, scienti...

If you are a dog lover and a lover of the military, 44 Days Out of Kandahar: The Amazing Journey of a Missing Military Puppy and the Desperate Search to Find Her by Christine Sullivan is a must have. The story follows a puppy named Cinnamon who is adopted as the unofficial mascot of a small military...

I've got two reviews for you today - one of a book and one of an upcoming anti-war documentary. They couldn't be further apart in political slants. The liberal media is America has crammed "Bushism" books down our throats for a few years now. If you haven't seen them, check ...

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Everyone is talking about the war. No one is talking to the Soldiers. Lucky Forward Films has a new movie out called "This Is War: Memories of Iraq", a movie that follows the 2nd Battalion, 162nd Infantry Regiment, Oregon National Guard, through a tour in Iraq. The Oregon National Guard ha...

Last night there was some episode of the popular teevee show Law & Order that may or may not have been about Larry Craig. It also may or may not have been about Barack Obama, Norman Hsu, and the murder of Vince Foster by Hillary Clinton! DID YOU SEE IT? I sure didn’t, but Intern Elise R...

Shalom Auslander sees himself as a foreskin—"unwanted, cut off, bloodied, tossed aside"—because of his repressive ultra-religious upbringing among the Orthodox Jews of Monsey, New York. This tortured and, let's face it, icky metaphor underlies all the stories in 'The Foreskin's Lament,' ...