{ Taylor Swift’s “You Belong with Me” music video. I know it’s formulaic, unoriginal, over-produced (whatever that means) and designed to ensnare the hearts of teenage girls. But you know what? It’s damn cute. And so what if I’m secretly a teenage girl. Most people are. They just don’t know it. } { Counting down [...]

AfterEllen recently posted an entertaining article about network TV’s sudden love affair with gays and lesbians. For the first time since never, GLBT folk are being featured in non-sassy-best-friend-you-go-girl roles. Not only are the numbers of gay and lesbian characters on soaps, comedies and dramas on the rise, the numbers of “real life” queers on [...]

I wish I could proudly declare that my homemade pizza is better than anything you can buy with cold, hard cash. That would be a lie. It’s not. Plenty of professional pizzerias purvey vastly superior pies. However, there is a certain amount of pride associated with preparing your own pizza … like baking your own [...]

I’ve been thinking a lot about Benjamin Franklin. The guy was freakin’ ridiculous. He formed the first library in America. Harnessed electricity. Created bifocal lenses. Played the violin, the harp and the guitar. He was an independent printer, successful author, satirist and cartoonist. A volunteer firefighter. The ambassador to France. A fervent abolitionist. Oh, and [...]