The passage of California's Prop 8 comes to many as a shock, to some as a wake-up call, and to the rest of America as no real surprise. In 2000, Bush's newly formed...

Even as Barack Obama was decrying division, celebrating equality, and promising his new tomorrow, California was suffering her worst constitutional injustice since the Japanese-American internment camps.

On November 4th millions of California voters chose to...

My Friends,

You know people have called me a Maverick, but very few know where that term came from. Well, back in the cattle-rustling days, everybody branded their herds EXCEPT the Mavericks.
Later, in court, they claimed - and won - that ALL non-branded cattle therefore belonged to them.

Today Adrian and Brandon, both aged 28, were married. They met nine years ago when Adrian's mother introduced her "out" son to the "nice boy in the optical shop". They've been sharing their lives ever...

At a recent Prop 8 rally Brad Dacus, an official campaign spokesman, actually compared the right of same-sex couples to marry to the rise of Adolph Hitler and Nazi Germany.

This insanity needs...

The Right's evangelical base is the new costume this Halloween.
No need for a mask, just leave reason at home.

On 15 May, California's Supreme Court ruled that the one man-one woman marriage laws are unconstitutional. The opinion, written by Chief Justice Ronald George, cited the court's 1948 decision that reversed the state's interracial marriages ban....

If you live anywhere around western Los Angeles it's inevitable you'll drive through, to, or out of Beverly Hills. To most of the world the town is a brand, symbolizing wealth, privilege and the Hollywood good-life....

It's been nearly one hundred years since the greatest symbol of maritime achievement -- the "unsinkable" Titanic hit the iceberg that sent it plunging to the bottom of the ocean. Without enough lifeboats, nearly two-thirds of the behemoth's...

Dear Mr Tomm Gregorry:

My name is Minister Wa Cohvia C.T. Bank.

I am a very wealthy financiall institution in the country
of America. The government is about to give me a very
large amount of monies into my account for my assets.

These markets are difficlut to...

This summer I sat down with Congressman Barney Frank when he touched on -among other things - the unfolding mortgage meltdown. Today his sincerity and plain speak are lost in a sea of Republican positioning, panic, and PR....

There's still a ferocious fire in financial firms on Wall Street.

How did it get so big before people started panicking? It was an inside job. The syndicates on Wall Street - like embarrassed children caught...

Change? It's what McCain and Palin are promising for their administration? Some "changes" look a lot like what came before. Bush, McCain, Palin or Cheney, are all the same version of bad.

In her screen...

America -- where dreams soar, lives flourish, and today's work strives to make a better tomorrow.

Freedom, democracy, and equality have always been our goal; our system of check and balances has served us well. Throughout...

For thousands of years, the village blacksmith has been revered as a god. Hephaestus, the saintly smithy of Greek mythology, forged weapons that defined power and tools that defied limits. In Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations," when protagonist Pip...

As your sandy summer read dwindles down to its final pages and August's shorter days have you dreading a month of Mondays, Dan Rattiner's latest book In the Hamptons arrives offering life's saltiest stories told with...

In the roaring twenties MGM was starlet boot camp. Young beauties that had passed muster at the front gate and the front office contracted with the studio as little more than artistic chattel. Tall thin, talented ingénues were...

Somewhere over the rainbow Dorothy's lonely lament for lemon drops and elaborate livin' crashed into complication. Fancy dreams succumbed to a yearning for the trouble-free life when Kansas, crullers, and Auntie Em beckoned her back home. If only...

Exasperated by my search for American made products, I looked back in time to find a museum dedicated to California's design gold. Not just pottery, the Museum Of California Design dedicates itself to all things made in the...