I thank E.J. Dionne Jr. and Richard Cohen for their Dec. 23 columns on the invitation of the Rev. Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at Barack Obama's inauguration. They helped me -- a gay man in a 34-year relationship, an early supporter of President-elect Barack Obama and an activist for civil-...

New Rochelle High School, which is a high school over in New Rochelle, New York…is censoring adult content from the novels that students are supposed to read for homework assignments. “Girl, Interrupted” which is a novel about a woman named Susanna Kaysen who has been sent to a men...

Lets Catch up on the News, Shall We - BAD ECONOMY HITS OPRAH’S ‘FAVORITE THINGS’: Annual show to go against the norm and give away inexpensive items. *Oprah Winfrey has taken a cue from the struggling economy and agreed to downsize the extravagant nature of her annual “Favori...

Mon cher Thom, je te l'avais promis, je te devais une explication, suite à mon court post enthousiaste sur la qualification du Stade Rochelais en demi-finale de la seconde division professionnelle de rugby (dite PRO D2), enthousiasme dont tu avais eu la gentillesse de me prévenir, jugeant que peut...

Juhu, heute habe ich mit einer ganz netten Fremdsprachenassistentin telefoniert, die mir Einzelheiten zu meiner La Rochelle-Reise erzählt hat. Das Tolle: Bevor es an den Küstenort geht, kann ich noch einen Nachmittag und eine Nacht in Paris verbringen, mit meiner international bunt zusammengewürf...

... petit matin à la fraiche dans les rues qui mènent paresseusement au port ; les deux employés municipaux ont posé leur matériel, à cette heure si matinale les notions de rendement et de productivité, si chères à notre époque, n'ont pas encore cours. Qu'ils en profitent avant l'arrivée ...

Rocco Turso was injecting himself with insulin three times a day, swallowing pills twice daily and restricting his diet. But his diabetes was still out of control, blurring his vision, making his feet numb and sapping his energy. So he decided to try an experimental operation. Within days, his blood...

Dry Moat and Bridge Entrance Bridge over moat In what is now the London suburb of Eltham in the Royal Borough of Greenwich there is a surprising juxtaposition of an ancient royal palace and a modern Art Deco home. Along and near the River Thames in South East London the Tudors had three great palace...

After Rochelle and Jenna and Laura. Some of these are by choice and some are just… weird broken parts of my brain but it hardly matters which now, does it? I can’t set the time on the clock in my car and it’s set to some crazy time [i.e. not like an hour or two off]. I’d like...

Boing Boing: Apple to add Trusted Computing to the new kernel? People working with early versions of the forthcoming Intel-based MacOS X operating system have discovered that Apple's new kernel makes use of Intel's Trusted Computing hardware. If this "feature" appears in a commercial, shipping versi...