The bipartisan gun control bill passed its first hurdle, but the fight is just beginning.
A Big Week Ahead for Gun Control
April 9, 2013 By Leave a Comment
There may be a bipartisan measure on background checks on the table after all.
Have Conservatives Lost the Culture War?
January 6, 2013 By 26 Comments
Joanna Schroeder agrees that culture influences politics more than we have understood in the past, and wonders how we can help create the culture and society we desire.
Paul Ryan: “Obama is Declaring War on Religion”
November 5, 2012 By 3 Comments
Like the Crusades and other religious wars like it, our politics become complicit weapons of violence when the value of the spoils is held above the people they are meant to serve.
Joe Biden and Paul Ryan Outline Differences on Abortion in VP Debate
October 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The Vice President and Congressman talked about fatherhood, life, and abortion in the debate in Danville, Kentucky.
TV’s New Gay Couples – Progress or Clichés?
October 9, 2012 By 10 Comments
Are clichéd gay characters on TV shows like Modern Family and The New Normal damaging the progress toward equality for same-sex couples?
How to Tell a True Baby Story
September 17, 2012 By 2 Comments
In this installment of “Love, Recorded,” the baby gets sick, hurt, touched, eardrum-blasted, tweeted, and loved.
Black Face, White Mask
July 17, 2012 By 2 Comments
Shawn Maxam discusses the importance of code-switching in White America.
Gay Donors Back Obama
June 5, 2012 By 8 Comments
Actually, CNN’s headline was Gay Donors Back Obama Big Time. I love it that the vernacular we used as teens (that our parents would correct us about) is now a part of mainstream journalism…
VP Biden Speaks About His Own Suicidal Thoughts
May 26, 2012 By 9 Comments
The VP spoke recently about the grief he endured after his wife and baby daughter were killed in a car accident, admitting to understanding how people consider suicide as a viable option.
Breaking News: Joe Biden Endorses Same-Sex Marriage
May 6, 2012 By 7 Comments
BIDEN: Look, I am Vice President of the United States of America. The president sets the policy. I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women and heterosexual men marrying women are entitled to the same exact rights. All the civil rights, all the civil liberties. And quite frankly I don’t see much of a distinction beyond that.
Paradise Is a Place with Plenty of Music
January 28, 2012 By 8 Comments
“She ground her pelvis against John’s thigh and sang ‘I Wanna Sex You Up’ with a mouthful of toothpaste. And when he frowned down at her, she only laughed harder.” By Heidi Bell
Vice President Biden Says ‘No Means No’
April 5, 2011 By 1 Comment
The government is instituting new guidelines for campus sexual assualt for all colleges and universities that receive federal funding.
The 10 at 10: December 2
December 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Joe Biden screws up, LeBron returns to Cleveland, and FIFA falls on its face: the 10 at 10.
The Top Ten Good Men Politicians
October 12, 2010 By 72 Comments
Saw Him Saw Him
August 5, 2009 By Leave a Comment
This guy we’re talking about said to another guy that he went to the gym because he didn’t go to church. That was his excuse for spending so much time around elliptical machines, stairsteppers, barbells, dumbbells, and squat racks. But that was just his excuse and I’m sure the real reason was something else. I [...]
“It’s a woman’s job to make her man feel safe — a safe place that doesn’t expect him to do brave things just because he’s a man.”
This is a comment by Kat on the post “A Husband’s Job Is To Create Emotional Safety”.