Matt Walsh

Blogger, talk radio host, father of twins

That's our entire economic system: buy things. Everybody buy. It doesn't matter what you buy. Just buy. How appropriate, then, that a holiday created by our ancestors as an occasion to give thanks for what they had, now morphs into a frenzied consumerist ritual where we descend upon shopping malls to accumulate more things we don't need.

Mike Love

Lead singer, The Beach Boys

After completing this song, it must have been 2 a.m. in the morning when we finally called it a night. We were awakened to the news that President Kennedy had been taken to Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas. For a bunch of carefree guys in our early twenties, our innocence was lost.

Jamie Galloway

Celebrity trainer, fitness coach and wellness consultant

There's a place for Lycra. Spin class perhaps, or maybe running through the park in winter. At the gym though, no one wants or needs to see the outline of your junk. Cover yourself up. The same goes for board shorts -- they belong at the beach. And sandals: seriously?

Jennifer Brea

Director, 'Canary in a Coal Mine'

There is something elusive in the nature of the illness such that unless you live it, or live with and care for someone who does, it's almost impossible understand or describe. You might come close after decades of treating patients. At every turn, language fails.

Chris Gentilviso

Senior Politics Editor, The Huffington Post

With two decades of hindsight in our favor, it's worth taking a few moments today to think about what the big screen showed us in 1993, and where those issues stand now.

Gary Hart

President, Hart International, Ltd.

For those of us powerfully motivated toward public service by the Kennedy challenge to our idealism, one not heard since then, we choose to believe that he had the potential to become that rare political leader beyond politics, certainly beyond partisanship.

Ann Brenoff

Senior Writer, The Huffington Post

I sleep like a baby, which is to say I sleep in short spurts throughout the night and wake up abruptly at inconvenient hours feeling kind of cranky. For years now, I have fallen asleep easily but rarely am able to stay asleep. I wake up at the slightest noise or light. I wake up when my husband moves the top sheet a millimeter.

Jordan Schultz

The Huffington Post's sports columnist, The Schultz Report

This is the 14th career matchup between these two future Hall of Fame quarterbacks. Expect it to live up to their reputations.

Justin Marceau

Associate Professor of Law, University of Denver, Sturm College of Law

Bob Autobee, whose son was killed eleven years ago, explained in a recent letter to District Attorney George Brauchler that the needless, expensive, and prolonged pursuit of the death penalty in his son's case has actually denied him the closure he's sought for over a decade.

Morgan Rotondi

An American in Dresden

I am now a 25-year-old woman from middle class "privilege" facing a crushing $60,000 of debt, with a 20-year loan repayment plan. I am still treading water each month, balancing multiple jobs. Is this how I am being "compensated" for my accomplishments, Mr. Reinharz?

Erin Ruberry

Managing blog editor, The Huffington Post; Contributing editor, HuffPost DC

The sign stopped me in my tracks: "Since 2004, six people have died falling from the cliffs on this route." I promptly texted a photo of the warning to my mom back home in Maryland and continued along the trail.

Ryan Scott

Founder and CEO, Causecast

A new report from Quantum Workplace introduces some fascinating data about the best places and conditions for high employee engagement.

Amy Purdy

Paralympic Snowboarder

I came home from work one day with what I thought was the flu and less than 24 hours later I was on life support and was given less than a two percent chance of living.

Todd Hartley

Buckler of swashes

I, like many Coloradans, love autumn in the high country. This one was particularly spectacular, with the aspens and scrub oak bursting out in every conceivable shade of yellow, orange, brown and red.

Peg Perl

Staff Counsel, Colorado Ethics Watch

By nominating individuals to fill seats already vacant on that court, President Obama (like President Bush before him who had four nominees confirmed to fill vacant seats on the D.C. Circuit) is merely fulfilling his constitutional duty.

Jason Salzman

Former media critic at the Rocky Mountain News; Blogger, www.bigmedia.org.

If a journalist is debating a reader about a fact, let's hear from other journalists. If that's not in the public interest, what is? Not just on Twitter, but also in comment boards.

Shan Wells

Nationally syndicated political cartoonist

Auden Schendler

Author, 'Getting Green Done'

No state has ever seriously considered aggressive leak detection and repair (of if you prefer, the awesomely acronymed LDAR, pronounced El-Dar!) on natural gas infrastructure, but these rules do just that.