When called upon to name my most underrated actor, several names came to mind: Don Cheadle, Greg Kinnear, Mark Strong and half the cast of Lost to name but a few. Narrowing it down to one seemed impossible. Why not make it a Top 10 list? Everybody loves those right?

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Honesty is the best policy.

It is a cliche you hear spewed everywhere, from Oprah to the pages of Cosmo.  Even omissions are treated as lies by these honesty junkies. But is an open, honest relationship in which you share everything with your partner really such a good idea?

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Even from the grave, Michael Jackson can still sell out. An amazing 1.6 million fans registered in an online lottery for tickets to attend today's morning memorial service at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Of those entrants, a lucky 8,750 were chosen to receive a pair of tickets each.  Despi… Read full post »

Like welfare queens and trickle down economics, political correctness is the canard that keeps on giving. Fifteen years after Politically Correct Bedtime Stories topped the New York Times best-seller list, the American obsession with making fun of political correctness continues unabated on websites… Read full post »

Homelessness is like homosexuality: it's not for everyone. But for that ten percent of us who are wired just a little bit differently, the freedom of living without a home can be just another lifestyle choice.

Much like gays know they are different from a very early age, I was well… Read full post »

I would.

Now don't get me wrong. I'm not crazy or suicidal and I'm not saying I would kill myself for a vanity label, but for a Simon and Schuster imprint I just might consider it .   .   .

Men have certainly died for less.  Over four thousand Americans… Read full post »

While I consider Proposition 8 a step in the right direction, it does not go nearly far enough. Why should we stop at only banning gay marriage?  We live in an allegedly secular nation with separation of church and state yet our government gives tax breaks and benefits to couples who… Read full post »

Kris Allen said it best when, after being crowned the 2009 American Idol, the first words out of his mouth were: "Adam deserves this."

Yes, Adam most certainly did. He took a cynical and uppity middle-aged man and turned me into a lover of what I once considered America's most… Read full post »

ESPN reports that Michael Vick has been released from Leavenworth federal penitentiary today after serving 19 months for financing a dog fighting ring. Vick will spend the remaining two months of his sentence on house arrest at his 5 bedroom Hamptons, Virginia home, where he will be allowed to leave… Read full post »

While sales of luxury goods such as jewelry and fragrances are expected to drop 20 percent in the first two quarters of 2009, one luxury item continues to sell: baseball tickets. Attendance is down only 5.2% compared with the same number of home games at each park a year ago, a… Read full post »

If baseball is America's past time then cheating at baseball runs a close second. Gaylord Perry entitled his autobiography Me and the Spitter and brazenly released it during the middle of his playing career. Pitcher Whitey Ford used his wedding ring to cut the baseball, third baseman John McGraw grab… Read full post »

1.) Jessica Alba

Ladies, do you ever wonder how celebrities pop out the babies like Pez Dispensers and still keep their trim figures? Is it the personal trainers and private chefs that do the trick? Um . . . no.  It's the airbrusher, honey. The real Jessica Alba--mere months after… Read full post »

Although I was born straight, here are ten reasons why I think gay sex is better than the heterosexual variety:

1.) Straight Sex is Treated Like a Competitive Sport

Straight men call it scoring for a reason: we all keep track. Somewhere, on what had to have been a canopy… Read full post »

Regret. Turn on the radio and you'll hear its siren call. There's Harry Chapin on the oldies station singing “The Cat's in the Cradle”, wishing he had spent more time with his son. Flip the channel to country and you'll hear Toby Keith telling us he “Shoulda been a Cowboy”.… Read full post »

The Internet has made the book smart kid as obsolete at the turn of this century as the horse was at the end of the last. When all the world's knowledge is but a search away on one's iPhone, we smart kids you once asked to settle barroom debates or… Read full post »

The $70 million box office hit I Love You, Man is coming to DVD August 11th.  For those who skipped its theatrical run because the commercials made it look like just another gross-out, full-frontal male nudity romp from the Judd Apatow troupe, take a gander at the Rotten Tomatoes plot summary:/… Read full post »