Welcome to Ask Willie D, Rocks Off's advice column where the Geto Boys MC answers reader questions about matters, in his own words, "funny, serious or unpredictable." Something on your mind? Ask Willie D! I'M 15: I SMOKE, I DRINK AND I'M SEXUALLY ACTIVE Willie D: I have had sex with five differen ... More >>
Chris Kluwe is prying open America's last closet: major league sports.
Schools are finally getting tougher on gay bullying.
Donna Summer, the disco queen whose salacious songs sometimes clashed with her traditional values, has died of cancer at age 63, TMZ is reporting. Boston native Summer, born LaDonna Andre Gaines, sang in her church choir as a teenager before winning five Grammys and becoming one of the top-selling ... More >>
First achievements are always special. A baby's first step; special. Your first day of school or your first time having sex -- both very special moments. The Houston Dynamo officially unveiled BBVA Compass Stadium on Saturday in front of 22.039 orange-clad fans. For the players walking down the tu ... More >>
Tiffany Michelle Amos was a substitute teacher in the Spring school district with an apparent hankering for one of her students. She knew not to have sex with him until he turned 17 -- and indeed, on his 17th birthday she invited him over and had sex with him, court documents say. Unfortunately fo ... More >>
College student Sandra Fluke had the guts to testify to Congress about her sex life, all in the name of defending common sense when it comes to contraception. For that, Rush Limbaugh called her a slut. (President Obama, on the other hand, phoned her with encouragement.) Limbaugh said of her remark ... More >>
This debate starts, as many debates do, with your humble narrator taking a poop. Our usual bathroom reading fair is Lovecraft, the Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, and our own Liisa Ladoucuer's Encyclopedia Gothica. No book is better for suited for a quick, random flip-through than her exhaustive list of a ... More >>
For one delinquent Rio Grande Valley juvenile, a sentence to boot camp was transformed into a ticket to a dream hummer holiday. Somehow we don't think this was what the juvenile criminal justice system had in mind for the unidentified 17-year-old boy.... According to Cameron County Sheriff Omar L ... More >>
One thing about Baylor: It stands by its convictions, no matter how wacky. Take, for instance, the class they offer called "Homosexuality as Gateway Drug." Some might find that hilariously offensive, or offensively hilarious, but Baylor knows it is a serious look at how homosexuality can lea ... More >>
The publication, last week, of the first English-language translation of the Japanese manga comic Drops of God by Tadashi Agi (a pseudonym for brother and sister Shin and Yuko Kibayashi) aroused my, ahem, curiosity. I have not yet read it but am dying to. The editors of the prestigious Br ... More >>
We have some great commenters here on Hair Balls, and it's time we paid some damn attention to them. So we'll be highlighting a Comment of the Day each morning, from the previous day's work. Maybe two comments, even. This will all be determined by a highly rigorous scientific formula involv ... More >>
Asher Brown -- kids feigned anal sex on himA lawsuit that accuses the Cy-Fair school district of intentionally destroying or hiding evidence has detailed the bullying that 13-year-old Asher Brown went through before he took his life, at least according to his mother. Brown's death drew natio ... More >>
We were terrified of the ball gag, too.A chef, a pastry chef and a food critic walk into Erotic Cabaret. It's not the beginning of a joke; it's how I spent my Saturday afternoon. I took chef Jonathan Jones of Beaver's and pastry chef Jody Stevens of Jodycakes to the "marital aid" store this ... More >>
blogs.dallasobserver.comOn Monday The Daily Mail reported on a recent study of 5,000 men and women conducted by UK based Shape Smart that found that while men are thinking about sex (36 percent fantasize every half hour), women are focused on food--nearly a quarter of female participants repo ... More >>
Bristol Palin likes abstinence-only nowFor the first time in a decade, the federal government is out of the business of funding abstinence-only sex-education programs.Because, as it turns out, teaching kids it's bad to have sex doesn't really stop them from having sex. It just stops them from lea ... More >>
The author of the V.I. Warshawski series gives readers another thriller
I understand Lady Gaga's declaration of celibacy last month was something of a big deal, if only because most of us have a hard time believing everyone in the music business isn't vigorously fellating each other on those off days when they're not sacrificing puppies to Clear Channel or auto-tunin ... More >>
The odd case of Charles Dean Hood has been a subject of talk for a while. He was convicted of killing a Plano couple -- there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of doubt about it -- but he's got a unique appellate argument: The judge and his prosecutor had been lovers.Back in our cub-reporting days, ... More >>
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I guess it started with The Honeymooners. You know, sitcom family equals fat husband, cute wife. According to Jim. King of Queens. Grounded for Life. Still Standing. Hell, even The Simpsons. And the list goes on. What do they have in common? All star a sitcom husband who is fat and schlumpy an ... More >>
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Whitney Casey is fast turning into the gift that keeps on giving.We got an e-mail blast from "her people" today, touting the new book by the Houston Chronicle columnist and former Great Day Houston host."Relationships expert Whitney Casey, who has dated Lance Armstrong and Rocco DiSpirito, and was m ... More >>
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