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 »

1.) Kurt Cobain: The Self-Loather

This redditer seemingly lives an enchanted existence. He has the hits and karma we all want, and his posts land on the cover of reddit quicker than ours reach the new list.

Yet it's still not enough for this tormented artiste. He is secretly ashamed of… Read full post »

Alone but not lonely? In our hyper-socialized culture, the title of this article will strike many as a misnomer at best or a deliberate attention grabbing stab at Ann Coulter style notoriety at worst.  As every media schooled citizen knows, the state of being alone inevitably leads to the emotio/… Read full post »

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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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 »

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 »

I joined the 21st Century a few weeks ago and signed up for Facebook.  While the Facebook software loaded up the names of friends it found in my AOL inbox, one in particular surprised me: my wife's. Hers was an invitation only page so I sent her a friends request.  Days… 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 »

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 »

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 »

Women, does your husband seem bored in the bedroom?  Has his sex drive diminished and the amount of dirty socks you find in the hamper increased accordingly since you got broadband?

Let me tell you a secret. He’s disinterested because monogamy does not work when the wonders… Read full post »

Growing up, a friendless life seemed perfectly normal to me. My own parents never socialized and neither did the Huxtables, Bradys or Seavers on TV.  Melodramatic after-school specials taught me all about the dangers of peer pressure while  Diff'rent Strokes further hammered home the point… 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 »

 I thought being a husband would come easily to me. But months after saying I do I'm beginning to wonder what the hell I was thinking.

Oh, I had heard all the scuttlebutt about the misery of marriage.  But if marriage really promised only misery and heartache, why would nearly 3/4… 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 »

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 »

I am the Editor of your Open Salon, who brought you out of the land of Blogspot, out of the house of anonymity;

1.)  Thou shalt not have any other blogs before me.

2.) Thou shalt not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of any trinket… Read full post »

The issue of reparations for slavery is a divisive one in America. While a  2002 opinion poll found that 67 percent of African-Americans supported monetary reparations, only 4 percent of whites agreed. If whites were to compensate African-Americans for their centuries of servitude, how much woul… Read full post »

Most Prolific Father: Travis Henry

The former Tennessee Titan is the proud papa of eleven little bundles of joy by ten different women. The star running back is currently jailed for failing to pay his $17,000 a month child support bills. He is also facing federal cocaine trafficking charges. The… Read full post »

Seventeen year-old tennis sensation Simona Halep has vowed to have her 34DD breasts surgically reduced. The 5'5" Romanian says "The breasts make me uncomfortable when I play. It's the weight that troubles me - my ability to react quickly."

Fans of the world's 317th ranked player reacted… Read full post »

I just read this on SI moments ago. The Dodgers slugger is the highest profile player yet to test positive for performance enhancing drugs. The slugger claims he did not know it was a banned substance. Is this a case of Manny being Manny or did he really know?

Alex Rodriguez… Read full post »

By the time you log off your computer tonight, you will have seen more assholes than your proctologist sees in a week. As women are wont to point out, the Internet asshole seems to be a strictly male phenomenon. Are women right? I'm not sure but 10 months of marriage have… Read full post »

While the blog merely blurred the line between audience and celebrity, the age of Twitter has effectively sandblasted any and all such demarcations. We now get to hear all the intimate details about our favorite celebrity's latest Hardee's Thickburger: that excruciating paper cut suffered while unwra… 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 »

Surgeon, electrician, teacher: these are the jobs that generally come to mind when we think of the world's most difficult professions. Admittedly, performing open heart surgery, splicing a cable and managing a classroom full of hormonally imbalanced students (and teaching them something to boot) are… Read full post »