I woke up in my flat this morning and looked through the dormer above my head to see two seagulls circling around in Dublin’s glowing, gray-orange morning light. There are two strange things about that...

Anybody who is offended by sexually explicit language, please cover your ears now. Since I’ve already done a poor job of burying the lead (yes, this is about sex), I might as well be clear from the...

Cairo, Egypt has been the focus of all news headlines for the past few weeks. And for once, the dialogue of each party isn't in conflict. President Barack Obama's stance on Egypt to have a "peaceful transition"...

With the House vote to repeal Obamacare and the visit by Chinese President Hu Jintao, Americans have awoken from our legislative holiday to be firmly reminded about the U.S. debt situation. Most sources...

President Barack Obama walked into a joint session of Congress last Tuesday filled with bipartisan applause and a myriad of handshakes from members of both parties. The seating chart was not divided into...

President Barack Obama's recent State of the Union Address was a centrist manifesto that offered everyone something to hate. Liberals bemoaned his plot to gut the federal government. The Conservative...

We’ve all heard talk of this healthcare bill. In fact, it has been on the news, in print and talked about over lunch since 2008. Still, there is so much chaos and conspiracy that most of us don’t know...

In the summer of 2005, I stopped eating meat. A friend at the time sent me a link to some grainy video on a PETA website, clearly taken with a shaky camcorder by someone on the "inside." Grave background...

Public transportation, in general, is the great democratizer, but airports have a larger range of classes and a much wider variety of people than almost anywhere else you can find. The average person (belonging...

If hobo scrotum cannot jolt writers block, really what can? I was double fisting caffeinated beverages in my preferred pretentious coffee joint trying to figure out how to kick-start my reign as columnist....

We have grown up in a country divided by two loosely defined parties. While some Americans can demonstrate their loyalty to their respective partisan core beliefs, any American government class will show...