A month or so ago, I was hanging out with two lesbian friends and we happened to meet two of their lesbian friends and the cousin of one of the …

According to Bob Garfield, host of NPR’s On The Media, young people’s (especially young women’s) speech patterns are becoming “really annoying.” On a recent podcast, Garfield described the sound as …

When I was 8, some friends of my parents had a party at their house. The main attraction was a palm reader they hired to entertain the guests. “You will …

Cats are impassive torturers, content to bring you eternal misery dotted with brief moments of joy, like pure sunshine breaking through the clouds after the rain. They are an enemy …

Most of the things bigots do are just plain sad. Take “ex-gay therapy,” for example. A bunch of quacks claim that homosexuals can be “cured” of their same-sex attraction through …

Being an introvert can be hard. I sometimes don’t feel understood by other, more outgoing people, or by society as a whole. Even though I’ve learned to make the most …