Earlier this year, Congress approved a $168 billion economic stimulus
package that aimed to provide a temporary boost to the economy through
handing out checks to the masses. Many presidents are tempted to try
to stimulate the economy in this way. While Bush did it...

The other day my brother Reverend Run texted me with some exciting news: the parenting book he recently wrote with his wife Justine, Take Back Your Family: A Challenge To America's Parents, had just made the New York Times bestseller list. While some might be surprised that a parenting...

The most memorable scenes of the Beijing Olympics are not what Michael Phelps accomplished in the pool but what he did right after emerging with yet another Olympic gold medal after every swim. Here, a twenty-three-year-old athletic superstar took his flowers from the medal podium, climbed over benches and photographers,...

...tell 'em to talk to my friend Harry Rhodes. He's proof that "healthy, local, and organic" isn't just for foodies and the so-called well-heeled.

For seven years, his Chicago-based non-profit, Growing Home, has provided jobs and training for the homeless, the previously incarcerated, and people with low incomes....

No wonder. It has it all -- scandal, sex, treachery...

On August 14, 2008, President Bush signed into law the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (the "Act"). This legislation, sponsored by Senator Mark Pryor (D-AR), comes a year after last summer's recalls of millions of toys. It took the recalls and the deaths and hospitalizations of children resulting...

Despite being plagued by a bad ankle all season, Plaxico Burress of the NY Giants was still able to haul in the winning touchdown pass in last year's Superbowl. Unfortunately, despite an offseason of rest and treatments, he started this preseason with...

There are over 6 billion people of people on the planet and it doesn't matter how old you are, the cards are always shuffling and there is someone out there for each of us no matter what our age.

But how do we choose someone who is potentially a good...

Dear Phyllis

I'm in the middle of my quarter-life crisis and trying to figure out what to do with my life. I have a job but not a career path. I date, but I have never had a serious relationship. I hardly feel like a grown up and I get really embarrassed...

Every morning for breakfast I have three sandwiches of fried eggs, cheese, lettuce, tomato, fried onions, and mayonnaise, one omelet, a bowl of grits, and three slices of French toast with powdered sugar; I then wash it down with three chocolate chip pancakes with butter, syrup, and whipped cream.

Wait...

Are you a food addict? Is there such a thing? What do people mean when they say they're food addicts? Aren't we all food addicts? We need to eat to live so... It's like saying you are addicted to water or sunlight. "Hi, I'm Irene. I'm a water addict." "...

Once again, Lawrence King is in the news. His parents have filed a lawsuit against the school for "not enforcing the dress code."

I think I'm going to scream.

Lawrence King wore feminine attire to school. He wore what all the girls were wearing. He was a...

There are lots of things you can try to enhance the quality of your sleep and avoid waking up at night. But here's something you probably haven't heard of before: warming up your skin.

The news just came in from the Netherlands in a study published in...

The first step of turning a dream into reality is getting clear on what you want to accomplish. Even if you're not sure what you want to do or you've got a bunch of competing ideas to choose from, it all starts with the creative process. Creativity is a...

Oh goody, another political sex scandal.

Is it just me, or has anybody else noticed that these things never seem to happen to women?

Oh, women are involved all right -- they're usually either being wronged or participating in the wronging.

Yet I can't recall too many instances where a...

Two hundred and seventy-eight years ago, the British satirist Jonathan Swift shocked everyone with a modest proposal: In the midst of a famine, Ireland could escape the burden of poor children by .... well, eating them. The author of Gulliver's Travels pointed out that society was unwilling to actually feed...

Riding along the bike path to Ocean Beach one morning, I saw a sign posted in the sand warning beachgoers of dangerous rip tides in the area. The sign read, "Remain Safely on Shore".

Good advice for would-be surfers and swimmers, but it also made me think about...

My post this week is a short chronicle from the road, deep from the heart of the Grace Light tour. Several weeks ago, I posted an article titled Amazing Grace, which explored the role of grace and divine intervention in awakening humanity to new levels of enlightened existence. Many...