As if I needed a reason to love Alyssa Milano more — never mind that she was Samantha Micelli, she just donated her 37th birthday to charity:water, raising over $83,000 for charity. A girl after my own heart. But, check out this new video from Funny or Die &dmash; yes, again with the Funny or Die, because it's where smart, talented people go to make their ideas happen, and rack up the pageviews — where Milano gamely gets transformed into Snooki, the Jersey Shore star who may have just launched the baby name of 2010. (more...)

It is with the heaviest heart and through many tears that I share this story. My fight for health care reform is a personal one, and one that I feel I need to share. (more...)

Move over, Harry & Louise, there's a new health care debate going on, and this one's takin' it to YouTube. Oh, wait, Harry & Louise switched sides, but the point is, online video has made it really, really easy to take to the Internets to try and move the debate — and activist humor is really having a moment right now. (more...)

video My pal and Bloggingheads buddy Matt Lewis has taken issue with my post today about how crazy this whole uproar about President Barack Obama's address to schoolchildren is ("President Obama Is Coming For Your Children"). Well, he sorta thinks President Obama is coming for your children — why isn't the question for these kids, "What can you do to help America?" not "What can you do to help the President?" He doesn't like all the Obama-based propaganda being thrown at schoolkids, and he thinks my suggestion that part of the vociferous response against All Things Obama is coded racism is ridonk. (more...)

I posted earlier earlier about about my friend Veronica De La Cruz, who has been working social media like crazy to save her brother Eric, who needs a heart transplant but couldn't get one due to ridiculous inter-state red tape (he's covered in Nevada but there are no centers who perform the operation; however, the nearest out-of-state facility is ineligible because his Nevada health insurance won't cover it).