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Lawyer Michael Cook , 57, is now president and CEO of Chicago-based Howard Brown Health Center, one of the country's largest gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender health care providers.

Now that our nation has observed "Kick a Ginger Day" and "Kick a Jew Day," can "Kick a Liberal Day" be far behind? In case you've been taking a tryptophan nap, a Los Angeles County sheriff's investigation has found that at least four redheaded girls and three redheaded boys at the A.E. Wright Middle School in Calabasas were assaulted on the Friday ...

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Regarding Dick Yarbrough's Sunday column, "You can't have things both ways," which noted that Muslims "want us to accept them and their customs, but they don't want to play by the same rules we do": John Songster: Yarbrough is 'strident, bigoted' Athens Banner-Herald Published Tuesday, November 17, 2009 Regarding Dick Yarbrough's Sunday column, ...

I recently dredged up a piece of pop-culture history I haven't thought about in ages.

I gotta admit it, I love watching "All in the Family" and "Sanford and Son." Honestly, you guys know it, and I've said it before, that is some of the dang funniest stuff on television.

Porn! Stormtroopers! Barney in a fat suit! Barney not in a fat suit! Alan Thicke! From where we're standing, last night's episode was the best of the season.

Quotes Bart Archives TomLinks 8280 posts 11/04/2009 Why Michael "Meathead" Stivic of All In The Family Is Still The Prototype of the American Liberal Smartass My politics aligned somewhat with Michael's, but I found him an unlikeable character.

It looks like the breakout hit comedy of the fall has been ABC's " Modern Family ." A month ago, a Salon reviewer said , "[T]his dysfunctional family comedy really is its own unique, brilliant gem, shining among an otherwise uncomfortably mediocre haul of cheap comedic rhinestones." The show's writing and originality has unquestionably been ...

Archie Bunker is alive and well and writes letters to newspaper editors. Proof? He had a letter published recently in which he suggested that everyone carry firearms in order to protect themselves.

A few weeks ago, reader Erin Findley of Austin watched the buzzed-about Fox show "Glee" - and she wasn't so gleeful.

A comic actress and singer almost always in Latina parts that called for an outspoken and sarcastic personality, Liz Torres has made a good living as a second banana or supporting player on sitcoms.

Elvis Presley 's hits roar to life on the Ogunquit Playhouse stage in the new Broadway musical comedy All Shook Up, starring Sally Struthers as the stick-in-the mud Mayor Matilda who has outlawed fun her small mid-western town.

Some Labor Day coming up. The unemployment rate announced this morning was 9.7%, with economists calling the shedding of 216,000 jobs -- fewer than previous months -- "good news." The woeful worker data and Labor Day come just before the start of the new fall TV season.

Rob Reiner, who's said to have been wanting to make a movie of the William Goldman novel for many more years than he'd actually been a moviemaker, is not at this point a good enough director to cover up for a not good enough idea: he's still tied too tightly to the TV sitcom sensibility , all the way down to the clunking closeup of whoever happens ...

Sometimes it seems like yesterday and at times, I feel he has missed so much and I miss him desperately.

Not many people can say they've been a guest in tens of millions of homes. It's been 38 years since "All in the Family" first aired on prime-time television, and Sally Struthers is still going strong.

She's been in show business for nearly 40 years, but Sally Struthers isn't a diva.

When: 8 p.m. Aug. 21; doors open at 6:30 p.m.; dinner will be served at 7 p.m. Admission: Reservations for dinner and the show are $50 per person.

All in the Family featured the curmudgeonly Archie Bunker. Archie was television's most famous grouch, blunt, blustering, straightforward and untouched by the PC crowd.