Category - Soapbox

Republican candidate Mike Huckabee wants "to ... amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards," particularly with respect to "how we treat each other" and "how we treat the family." [Link, with video.] At first, sentiments like these can sound...

Once upon a time, reviewers had credentials. Film critics, for example, were expected to have earned degrees in film history or filmmaking techniques. Restaurant reviewers were expected to have attended culinary school. Book reviewers were expected...

Headlines last week trumpeted Sony BMI's decision to stop fouling up it downloadable music tracks with DRM, or digital rights management technology. (Just in case you've been under a rock for the last five years, DRM is an expensive, broken, wrong...

Behold the grotesque glory that is the Amazing Racist: high-octane hatin' on the Muslims, on Mexicans, on African-Americans. It's all a parody, of course -- a hyperbolic meditation on just how much of a trigger the topic of race continues to be...

J. Robert Lennon has written a creepy little horror story using nothing but words from Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat.

Frank Melton is known for storming strip clubs, bashing in the doors of low-rent residents, conducting illegal searches of citizens' homes, and parading around Jackson, Mississippi, dressed as a SWAT team member. In this article, Donna Ladd calls...

So, last night at 1:53, I woke up to the loud, distinctive chatter of a helicopter's engine. At first, I thought I was dreaming. A helicopter? Right outside my window? I crawled out of bed, parted the blinds with a finger, peered out ... and, sure...

A friend who describes himself as "conservative" and I were talking about the huge role health insurance coverage plays in evaluating potential jobs. "It makes me crazy," I said, "that of all the world's industrialized nations, only America fails to...