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Where do people feel the most positive about their lives? Denmark Finland Netherlands Sweden Ireland Canada Switzerland New Zealand Norway ...

( YouTube video ) In his monologue tonight, Bill Maher linked the banking failure, health care crisis, obesity epidemic, prison population, ...

When are hugs okay, and when are they just plain awkward? According to the NY Times , today's teenagers never give that question a singl...

"This isn't paradise and you know it. The people here are starving and dying. The whole world uses Somalia as a dumping ground for ...

"When they see the American government caught up in arguments about interrogations, the terrorists see just what they were hoping for —...

I admit I'm not a big fan of The View, but every once in a while Whoopi Goldberg makes the show worthwhile like this morning when she ca...

I cringe every time I hear the word "teabag" now. I thought that, in time, I would recover, but apparently the Republicans want to...

The imminent threat of a terrorist attack was Dick Cheney's justification for torture. Terrorists are poised to set off dirty bombs and ...

The above picture is one of eleven cover sheets featured in the GQ article And He Shall be Judged , a damning exposé on former defense secr...

I was always curious about A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram, but never curious enough to spend my own money or time on the book. In...

The Republicans don't understand that torture is not a partisan issue. Take that old Newt Gingrich for example. Does he honestly believe...

Perhaps you thought I was crazy when I said it should be up to Miss Universe to greet the space aliens when they arrive, but recent research...

"Well, I think it's great that Americans are able to choose one or the other. We live in a land that you can choose same-sex marria...

I was counting on this happening eventually, but I thought it would come as the result of a criminal investigation. Vincent Bugliosi explai...

Activism, the internet, and cute cats -- there's a relationship here that I never would have dreamed of. The theory is that when oppres...

The best 30 Rock segment ever: "I don't have a lot of personal life experience, but if I have learned anything from my Sims family...

Nobody -- absolutely nobody -- should ever take Pat Robertson seriously. So try not to laugh too hard as you watch this video where Pat res...

Back in the early 90's, when I was deeply enmeshed in the Bay Area BBS scene , we used to have pizza parties just like the Republican Pa...

"I think you believe in evolution, but you're afraid to say so because your conservative constituency might find that offensive....

Are we really becoming this short-sighted? Debtors' prisons are back : Edwina Nowlin, a poor Michigan resident, was ordered to reimburse...