
Written by me in 2005 to sum up how I felt at a deposition in my case against L.B Memorial Hospital and Dr. Kooshian:
The truth.
Where is the truth?
How does one find it?
People sit and swear to tell it.
They affirm to deities to defend it.
They profess their love of it.
And then evade it…
coat it…
dodge it…
colour it…
Lawyers jockey [...]

It’s not the mosque’s fault.
Nor is it the fault of the Muslim’s that wish to build it.
It’s our fault, We, The People, for letting a vacant lot sit where towers, a memorial, a park, where something, anything but an empty hole with some construction going on should be. Let’s face it, one man (with the help [...]

Joan Armatrading
Singer/Songwriter Comes to Long Beach Terrace Theater Aug. 7
By Charles Karel Bouley
“Is she the one that sounds like Tracy Chapman?”
That’s a question often posed when explaining the musical wonderment of Joan Armatrading. Since the release of 1972’s Whatever For Us, the European-based singer-songwriter has consistently satisfied lifelong fans and created new ones. Her success [...]

This questionairre is the most dehumanizing thing…wait, just another in a long step of dehumanizing things. This is what our military is being asked by the Big Bad Gays.
It’s all here:
Wait to you get to the GLBT questions. Love the ones about showering. Replace Gay with Black and would this [...]

The Morning Edit
It’s terrible when you have to defend people whom you neither like or care for; people that you might not give one iota for or against until they come under scrutiny for something that just can’t stand. Enter Lindsey Lohan and Michael Steele, the strangest of bedfellows.
First, there’s Lohan. Not since Brittney went [...]

And for something completely different, Karel Stands Up! offers the politically charged gay standup comedy of Charles Karel Bouley on June 28. Better known on the radio waves as simply Karel, the talk-show host has gotten himself repeatedly in hot water for his comments, and also occasionally shown the door, most recently from KGO in San [...]

If you love orchids, check out these photos. This guy is talented! Prints for sale here. I [...]

On March 3, 2010, the first minority President in history from the majority party gave his blessing to the majority party having a majority vote so they can pass legislation by majority rule. The minority party got upset that the majority party was going to have a majority vote to pass legislation by majority rule, even [...]

Karel Stands Up:
Monday, March 29th, 8pm
THE RRAZZ ROOM at Hotel Nikko, San Francisco
$25 presale, $30 at the door
tickets at www.TheRrazzRoom.com
Literally. Karel Stands Up! Talk radio superstar, controversial Huffingtonpost blogger, author and outrageous entertainer Karel takes to the stage to bring his unique brand of humor and social commentary directly to audiences without the filter of the [...]

Fantasia is Celie
In 2005 Oprah Winfrey presented “The Color Purple” on Broadway starring Fantasia, from American Idol fame. It was a rousing success, nominated for 11 Tony Awards, but really, how could it miss with Oprah’s money, a Pulitzer-Prize winning book by Alice Walker, the foundation of a movie by Spielberg on which to build [...]