Lisa Bloom at SXSW 2017 (image courtesy Bloom's Twitter)
Last Tuesday night, Bill O'Reilly went on what he said was a pre-planned trip to Europe while in the middle of a firestorm over allegations that he sexually harassed dozens of women. Although he didn't...
When her obstetrician advised Amy Anderson to bind her chest, Amy decided she wanted to pump the milk that began engorging her breasts. She spent 8 months pumping 96 gallons only to donate every last...
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As a society, we’ve become used to seeing homeless people on the streets. Asking everyone they can for loose change – or food, or work, or anything else that they can get. Yet only one...
David Wildstein walking to the federal courthouse in Newark to enter his guilty plea (courtesy The New York Times)
We haven't heard too much Chris Christie news lately. However, at long last, it's time for some legal problems in Trenton. Earlier today, a longtime crony of the New Jersey governor pleaded guilty to his...
Photo art courtesy Emil Lendof, The Daily Beast
On paper, Breitbart News should be sitting pretty. After all, the rabidly alt-right fake news machine played a key role in propelling Donald Trump to the Republican nomination. Indeed, it was so fanatically loyal to...
A Lowe's in Chapel Hill, North Carolina (courtesy Wikimedia Commons)
Last week, a delivery driver for a Lowe's store in Danville, Virginia, was the victim of a disgraceful act of racism. He was delivering an item when the store manager told him to turn around...
In North Carolina this week, Officer Tim Purdy was dispatched to a high school. He was trying to find an autistic, possibly suicidal boy that had wandered away from his school. The boy also had...
The activism that has been ignited by the Trump administration has once again proven its value for our troubled democracy. This time it was a loud and persistent outcry in the state of Arizona that helped...
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When I watched this video, I could do nothing but shake my head. Not just in disgust for our prison system, but also for myself. I've been that guy who ignored homeless people, too busy to...
Julie Pucci (from her Facebook, courtesy the New Civil Rights Movement)
More than a decade ago, Julie Pucci, the deputy administrator of a Michigan district court, was fired after reporting one of the judges for being too pushy about his Christian faith. Last week, Pucci finally...
After an incident at a Toronto high school where two straight students bullied a gay student for wearing a pink shirt, students intervened in the situation. Students also decided to start a viral movement to...
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Tea party conservatives love to "talk the talk", when it comes to following the teachings of Jesus Christ. They memorize chapters of bible verses, most of which they don't understand the context of. They sing,...
A few days ago hearts of Louisiana residents started feeling a little empty when the New Orlean Saint's Tight End, Jimmy Graham, was traded to the Seattle Seahawks for Max Unger and a 1st round...
A Mexican boy singlehandedly tries to stop a homophobic rally (image courtesy Manuel Rodriguez, Regeneracion)
This weekend may have seen one of the most touching moments of the year--and it isn't related to our election. A brave little Mexican boy was so disgusted by the homophobia in his town that he tried to stop an...
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A young man was carried through the tunnel and across the Jardine Stadium football field one last time. Malik Sparkman was a linebacker for the Coffee County Trojans in South Georgia before he was diagnosed with...
We all know that Islamophobia is increasing in the United States. We know that because we hear political leaders (and those who want to be) talk about banning Muslims, patrolling Muslim neighborhoods, calling them all terrorists. We...
Shepard Smith at the 2013 World Series (image courtesy Smith's Facebook)
For some time, Shepard Smith has been a rare voice of actual journalistic integrity on Fox News Channel. It hasn't won him many fans. You may recall that last week, Smith called out Donald Trump's press...
I'm amazed! An LGBTQ school has popped up in Georgia called the Pride School Atlanta. It is a safe space for LGBTQ kids. One new student, Josh Farabee, is about to start school there and...
The Washington Post headquarters at One Franklin Square (image courtesy Agnostic Preacher's Kid, available under a Creative Commons BY-SA license)
Donald Trump has had countless chances to look and sound presidential--and has blown nearly all of them, bigly. He added another to the list when he claimed that "many sides" were responsible for the violence...
Keith Ablow at a 2013 Boston Tea Party gathering (from Mark Nassal's Flickr)
After devoting virtually no time at all to the Josh Duggar scandal, Fox News Channel seems to have taken on the role of the PR agency for America's famous babymakers. Megyn Kelly, for instance, echoed...