They say you learn something new every day, and today I learned about Bryson Gray, a rapper (I’m using that word loosely) and social commentator ...
I’m currently in Florida visiting my sister and my in-laws who live here for some reason. I mean, I know there are good things about ...
A few years ago my wife, son, and I drove across the country to Yellowstone National Park. We had cell reception the entire trip except ...
I just read an article about the murder of Brianna Ghey, a transgender teenager found stabbed to death in a park in England. As NBC ...
I’m about to do something I really don’t want to do. Something I have known was coming no matter what I did, yet I still ...
It’s 4:00 in the morning and I have to admit, I would much rather be sleeping than writing this column. But sometimes sleep is elusive. ...
In Florida, teachers are no longer legally allowed to choose books for their own classroom libraries because they might choose a book that offends the ...
Sarah Huckabee Sanders Saves Arkansas Children From Racism, Equips Them to Thrive in a Racist Future
Following in her father’s footsteps, Sarah Huckabee Sanders is the new governor of Arkansas. Which really sucks for the people of Arkansas and isn’t good ...
Arizona starts the year off right by protecting children from lace front wigs, stoned tights and faces beat for the gods! The list of threats ...
I don’t have time or patience for conspiracy theorists. Especially not ones who use their convoluted logic to further a right-wing agenda, something we’ve all ...
Happy New Year everybody! Except for people who made it their life’s goal to attack LGBTQ+ people. I hope your New Year sucks. 2022 was ...
You know what the scariest thing about drag queen story hour is? The part where hooded men wearing body armor show up with assault rifles. ...
Note: An attorney for the Club Q shooting suspect in an initial statement identified the shooter as non-binary and used they/them pronouns. However, in all ...
Let’s take a trip in the way-back machine to “Saturday Night Live” in the late 1970s. Specifically to the recurring skit featuring The Coneheads, a ...
We’ve all been to a place like Club Q. An unassuming place tucked into a strip mall that doesn’t look like much from the outside ...
If you’ve been driving around Western Pennsylvania lately you might have heard some crazy radio advertisements spouting misinformation and hate about trans kids and gender-affirming ...
In the United States, everybody knows that you don’t mess with Texas. That’s because you don’t have to. Texas will undoubtedly mess with you. Honestly, ...
In Iran, Islamic religious police detained Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman, for wearing her hijab too loosely. Reports say that some of her hair was ...
In the assault on reproductive freedom in the United States, there’s one thing I can’t really wrap my brain around. According to the people who ...
Right-wing radicals love to rail against “identity politics” while at the same time asserting that the United States is a white, Christian nation. As if ...
I don’t know about you, but when I want to blow off some steam and air some grievances, there’s just no more perfect target than ...
I feel like I’m trapped in a decades-long episode of “The Twilight Zone” where I am the only one who can see the monster on ...
I am sure by now you have heard the devastating news about Brett Kavanaugh, credibly-accused sexual assaulter/Supreme Court Justice/man who likes beer. It’s hard for ...
Well, this sucks. Even when you know something terrible is coming, you’re never quite prepared for the moment it happens. And yet here we are: ...
I woke up this morning with TLC’s “No Scrubs” stuck in my head, that anthem lambasting “deadbeat ass” men. And then I open my computer ...
Pride Month is nearly over, and what a month it has been so far. It’s awesome to see photos from the many Pride events and ...
How are you doing? You doing OK? Because I’m not. I can’t stop thinking about Uvalde, a place I didn’t even know existed until May ...
I get a lot of texts from Donald Trump these days. OK, not from him, but from his campaign. I got one today that asked ...
Well, he signed it. Just like everyone expected. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. And not only did he sign it, ...
I’m writing this on the first day of the Senate confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden’s nomination for the Supreme Court. If ...
Texas and Florida continue competing in their race to be named The Worst State in the U.S. It’s an absolutely exhausting display of anti-LGBTQ+ bigotry, ...
Remember when Donald Trump won the 2016 election and his supporters called Hillary Clinton voters sore losers for their outrage and disgust? And then, when ...
As I write this, COVID-19 has killed over 900,000 people in the United States. It’s a hell of a number. 900,000 deaths in just a ...
Great news, everyone! “Maus,” Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel about the Holocaust, is a bestseller 30 years after it was first published! In the book, Spiegelman, ...
A wise man once said, “What a stupid son of a bitch.” And that wise man was President Joe Biden, talking about Fox News White ...
Not sure if you know this, but I am a big fan of heavy metal music. It’s not the only music I like, but it’s ...
As we face 2022 there are some hot button questions that I know you’re dying to get answers to: Will COVID-19 ever end? Will U.S. ...
I discovered a really cool book over the weekend called “Bodies Are Cool” by Tyler Feder. My sister bought a copy for her daughter, who ...
A lot of people are dead in this country. In two years, more than 800,000 people have died as a result of COVID-19, and yet ...
Ho ho ho, it’s the height of the War on Christmas. What have you done to subvert this struggling holiday so that it can finally ...
These are dark times. The Supreme Court is going to either overturn or completely gut Roe v Wade, making abortion illegal, or at least impossible ...
Do you have the devil in you? If not, then what are you waiting for? ’Tis the Season, after all. Flu shot season, that is. ...
Taking a look at what’s going on in U.S. public schools and I have to say, things aren’t great! From parents harassing and threatening school ...
Those who forget history, or who willfully ignore it, are doomed to repeat it, which is why it should worry you that the Jan. 6 ...
Twitter owes U.S. Rep. Jim Banks (R-Indiana) a big apology. They canceled him! Just because he used the site to do something that directly violated ...
Hair is political. The rules about hair in the United States are, well, hairy. A lot of it goes back to the Bible, which has ...
If you’ve been to the store lately you probably have noticed that things are… missing. There are empty spots on the shelves and people are ...
Dear Readers, I am not filth. And neither are you. This isn’t something that I should have to declare. But readers of this column know ...
It’s the end of an era. A very harmful and stupid era. Pat Robertson is stepping down from “The 700 Club.” It’s tempting to write ...
U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) is not going to save us. I know it’s all the rage to point to her as the one reasonably ...