My ex-mother-in-law—mother of my first husband and paternal grandmother to my daughter, Becky —is in the hospital because of complications r...

This woke me up on a gray, rainy Friday afternoon. Do I live in the most excellent progressive state or what? Spitzer, you rock! gay rights...

The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the U.S. House of Represenatives, chaired by Rep. Henry Waxman , has subpoenaed Secret...

This video ( language not work-friendly; beverage-spew alert ) reminds me of some evil landlords I had back in my days as an apartment dwe...

Woohoo to the max! 301,689,255 cheers* for Rep. Dennis Kucinich! Today he introduced a resolution to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney. Th...

Even Private Jessica Lynch knows that the U.S. government lies about everything. Listen to her refute the government's aggrandizement ...

Generally, freelance copyeditors whose clients are mostly massive publishing houses don't get to speak directly with book authors; the i...

It's 5 weeks till my daughter, Becky, is due to give birth. She told me today me that she can tell that the baby has dropped. And while ...

A political blog that I respect—AMERICAblog—has come to a disturbing conclusion after reading a report from ABC News about alleged Virgini...

Nearly every day now comes new information that could be used to impeach Bush and Cheney. The latest White House ploy to be uncovered is wo...

Damn it! The U.S. now has a back-door draft , extending army tours of duty in Iraq to 15 months. And reality-based bloggers like me have bee...

My workload has been heavy lately, but I took some time out yesterday to celebrate my daughter's twenty-fourth birthday and my mother-in...

I'm too old for this. Remember the all-nighters you pulled in college to cram for exams? Yeah, I used to do those too. They were okay ba...

Hey, freelancers! Learn how to find, keep, and manage clients. This is your last shot at signing up for an audio conference that will tell ...

I'm delighted to see seven letters in the March 24 issue of the Lancet (volume 369, issue 9566) denouncing the involvement of Reed Exh...

The next generation of journalists and fighters for social justice will do just fine, thank you very much, if the skills and attitudes of se...

A U.S. colleague—a white woman—on an e-mail list sent listmates to her " favorite online sari shop ." I've always found sari c...