@CJ4: Duh - Catholic hospital, not church. I guess I am too incensed by the horror of this story to think/type straight (no pun intended).

Query how this situation will play out in states where gay marriage has been legalized, subject to a condition that religious groups will not be forced to recognize the marriage. Would that proviso allow a Catholic church to deny access to one spouse of an otherwise legally married gay couple?

When I was in law school at the Univ. of Texas in the late '90s, I was involved in the school's capital punishment clinic. My "client" was executed the day after I graduated, and I spent many hours at death row with him in the weeks leading up to the execution. Sister Helen was his spiritual advisor, and it fell to…

My wife, 3 year old daughter, and I will be in Irvine, CA — ground zero for conservative California — proudly protesting against 8 tomorrow morning. My greatest joys in life stem from the relationship I have with my wife and daughter. Knowing that, I will go to any length to secure the right of everyone else to fall…

As luck would have it, I was in Chicago and saw them in the airport on the way back from the taping. Vicky was wearing a hideous purple velour track suit, so clearly nothing from that makeover actually caught with her. Lauri looked surprsingly great in person, which may only be proof that I have been living in…

While I have seen my dad tear up a few times, I can only remember distinctly only a few times when he out and out cried:

In January, I taped an interview at E! for a True Hollywood Story (the Wilson Brothers - I told the story about the track meet wardrobe malfunction for all 8 of you who saw it). Anyway, I saw Joel on the way in to the taping. When I told my wife later that I had seen him, I witnessed an actual swoon and she…

@cardboardbelt: Agreed. I can forgive Esquire all of these ridiculous articles as long as they continue to publish articles like "The Things That Carried Him" every so often. That story of one soldier's final trip home is the most remarkable — and devastating — read I have had in a very long time.

@Miss Smith Drank Your Vodka: I have been wondering the same thing. But then I got to thinking.... I find it interesting that CCG pretty much dropped off the face of the Interwebs last week, almost exactly the same time that the Empire Club stuff came down (but before Client 9 was identified). I genuinely hope she is…

Of course, come to think of it, perhaps this is why my wife was so gung ho about going as Dora for Halloween last year.

I am proud/embarrassed to admit that my wife bought this for our two and a half year old daughter, who is currently obsessed with all things Dora. The only thing more unsettling than seeing your daughter happily clutching her Dora AquaDildo is when she points at a truck passing by and yells out in her…

Give all we can to find a cure for epilepsy?

So, does this mean that that SC cheerleader was the only one who actually got it right?