“Blood Drive” March 5th, 2009 I don’t know if the Super Bowl plans or just some weird scheduling resulted in the situation we find ourselves in here, but it’s Valentine’s Day in the world of The Office, which means that the single people are sad, and the couples are fee...

by Phyllis Schlafly The groups that elected Barack Obama are poised to cash in on their investment and the feminists are muscling to be first in line. The National Organization for Women (NOW), bragging that "we all worked hard to......

For those who have already read or are in the process of reading Phyllis Tickle's excellent book, The Great Emergence: How Christianity is Changing and Why ... I'm sitting in Starbucks reading. I'm not finished the book yet--I happen to be on page 104 at the moment. This book is fantastic and very e...

My wife asked me while I was reading this book if I have read many female voices in the whole emergent discussion, and I had to say that I had not. It’s not because I have avoided reading women, it is just that there are not many voices out there that are being heard. It’s not that they ...

For years, the Los Angeles Police Department, currently led by Chief William Bratton, had one of the worst records in the country when it came to how it treats gays and lesbians. In fact, the city of West Hollywood was incorporated to prevent the LAPD from having jurisdiction of an area that had bec...

I'm disturbed. The story of Phyllis Seidman, who was hit by a car only blocks from my house, haunts me. Maybe it's because the woman was wheel-chair bound due to MS. Maybe it's because my kids and I ride our bikes on the same streets. Maybe it's the flowers a couple people have left near the acciden...

Everyone in Real-America liked Christmas a lot, but Hitch, who lived just north of Real-America, did not. So he drank until ill and drank until iller, and spilled on his Christmas card from Phyllis Diller! I had never before been a special fan of that great comedian Phyllis Diller, but she utterly w...

“Moroccan Christmas” December 11th, 2008 A week after getting it so very right, The Office has gotten it so very wrong. “Moroccan Christmas” is a mess of an episode, a mostly charmless affair that offers small tidbits of potential but masks them in an unnecessary and forced i...

There's more to the story of Phylliss Burgess, 69, the "Styrofoam Cross Lady" that is currently the darling of Christianist websites after her cross was ripped from her hands and stomped during a Prop 8 rally in Palm Springs. If you buy the story being told on right-wing sites, Burgesss is a frail, ...

    Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic. Jean Sibelius   It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who...