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So Bevan Dufty, who is gay and a San Francisco supervisor, is sharing a house with a woman named Rebecca Goldfader, and together they are raising a child named Sidney. For some reason, this situation enraged normally sensible radio talk show host Pete Wilson, who called it an "experiment," partly because Dufty and Goldfader are not in a romantic relationship. Here's the breaking-news non-flash: It's all an experiment. Every adventure in parenting is trial and error, generally performed by people totally unqualified for the task. I think of myself at 23, which is how old I was when my first...

Sean Penn is a friend of mine. We hang. We chill. We kick back. Many people say to me, "Oh, he's such a big movie star, it must be very glamorous and special to hang with Sean." But it's not. Sean Penn is a regular guy, a guy like you and me, although more like me. He likes the things that everyone likes: hot dogs, cold beer, sense memory exercises. Like this one time he said, "I want you to imagine the worst thing that ever happened to you," and I did. I thought about the time my father was...

<p>When I heard about Jayson Blair, the New York Times reporter who was fired for fabricating details of stories, including pretending to be places he'd never been, my first thought was: "This'll happen again."</p> <p>In fact, I bet it's happening right now. Another wager: I bet it won't be caught. Media organizations are just not set up to deal with information fraud.</p>