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There's a protest against censorship on the steps of the Met today, because of the Smithsonian banning of David Wojnarowicz' video...

What's with all the Facebook bashing?  'Facebook users are narcissistic .'  'Yes, and also immature .'  Facebook 'f...

Memo to Greg Beato : go pick on someone in your own tax bracket. But if tipping isn’t exactly a rational exercise, it is an ingenious and...

I almost need to steal the title from Franklin's latest post: Patience With Everything Unresolved .  In fact, I almost need to steal F...

  'Sunset Holocaust,' Elisabeth Condon, 2009 Acrylic on canvas, 118.10 x 78.74 inches Every now and then I meet an artist who remi...

Art is not the end of the line.   I used to think it was, but that was just my ego talking. 

Some asshole gets hold of the intercom:    Two South Jersey Wal-Mart customers who heard a racist message broadcast over the store's ...

The more I learn about chronic pain conditions like fibromyalgia , the more it is clear to me that medicine is still in its infancy.  From t...

Jerry Seinfeld was always abhorrent. It is simply that it took most people a couple of decades to notice: The one star who appeared to be...

It's about freakin' time. What’s missing is art that seems made by one person out of intense personal necessity, often by hand. A ...

Glenn Greenwald describes Joe Stack's manifesto as 'perfectly cogent.'  Except for his conclusion that 'violence is the on...

Way back in the Dark Ages, I used to be a College Republican. Not only that, I was a Young Conservative. Of Texas. I spent more hours tha...

My new job, at The Balance Health Center in Philadelphia, has invited me to do a series of workshops. I'm planning for a weight loss t...

Like so many others, this recession hit us really hard. Both Joe and I are self-employed, so when the work dried up, we didn't even hav...

Mandala calendars have sold out! Thanks to all you lovely people who made my first commercial venture a success. If you sent in an order a...

Calendars are being printed and shipped this week; they will be 9"x 9", on 100# paper with a glossy cover. The price of $18 inclu...

One of the top priorities on my parenthood to-do list, in addition to paying the rent next month, is to raise my daughter so that things lik...