David Spark is a veteran tech journalist and founder of Spark Media Solutions, a firm that helps companies build their industry voice through storytelling and social media. His technology report, The Spark Minute, can be heard every day on Green 960 and 910 KNEW in San Francisco. When I was working ...

Here’s my first post about Rabbi David Brenner. His response. I then reached out to Rabbi Brenner via Facebook. Tonight I sent him these questions and he promptly emailed back his response. LF: How should Kellogs have reacted when their spokesmodel Michael Phelps was photographed smoking marij...

   IS RASH LIMBO THE BOSS OF THE REPUBLICANS - BY DEFAULT?What about Newt Gingrich, you ask? C'mon - Newt is SO-15 years-ago.    (Click on any image to ENLARGE it)       Dean Baker  "... According to the Congressional Budget Office, Social Security is fully funded through the year 2049 with...

Kate Harding dissects Germaine’s latest blithering (Germs doesn’t always blither, but I cannot think of a better description for this particular effort) in Salon. Great job. I was having the “why aren’t there more women working in stand-up?” conversation with a comedian...

  "Hot," especially used in conjunction with the factor "funny" regarding women, is highly subjective. Remember when Jenny McCarthy was trying to market herself as a zany, goofy-face-making, comedic actress? Although J McC was a woman, and she was making clown faces, and was...

Today marks the 15th anniversary of the death of comedian Bill Hicks. Known for his vicious, insightful no-holds-barred style, Hicks has posthumously become one of the most popular comedians of all-time. And in these strange, f**ked up days, we miss the funny son-of-a-bitch even more......

Filed under: Gear What is this obsession with women being able to pee standing up? Other than the ability to write my name in the snow, I have not really felt like I'm missing out on anything. I have yet to catch any communicable diseases from a toilet seat. And I do actually sit on the toilet seat....

Minnetonka-based GoGirl has created a reusable "urination device" so ladies can go anytime, anywhere without pissing all over their shoes or getting crabs on dirty toilet seats. What a relief....

It’s been years, but I used to work as a stand up comic (scroll to the bottom to see a video of me on stage). On my way up the comedy food chain, I performed at a lot of open mike nights. Performing at an open mike night is the only way you can get better at your craft to become a working comi...

  You know it's a good week when real vampires get pissed off at fake vampires... or is it real fake vampires getting pissed at fake fake vampires?  Highs: We found our new favorite man-boy band. Our token Canadian helped us celebrate President's Day. So did Scanner Colleen. We lau...