It's 7 am and I'm calling a collection agency that's on my case because our son had to spend one night in a hospital this summer, at a cost of $22,000, which our insurance doesn't want to pay because they need to be convinced that there was a medical necessity...

God, it's been such a whirlwind, I have barely had time to stop and collect my thoughts. Even since, the old guy asked me to join up, it's been all I could do to pack and up and get deployed for this mission, I mean campaign. And, geez, now the...

Hey S! How R U? U R So Gr8!

U R so right: When you wear that beehive and the schoolmarm glasses, people really take you seriously! You go, girl!

How come those angry liberals don't get it? We like to elect a dude we want to have a beer...

It's only three months into 2008, but so many bad things have happened, I'd like a do-over. But like the Democratic primaries in Florida and Michigan, I'm afraid the answer is 'no.'

Given the state of the economy, I expect there's more to come, so here's a roundup of the...

Hillary Clinton took a beating in some quarters of the media for getting emotional in New Hampshire, but since it actually figured into her victory, my guess is that we'll be seeing more of the needy side of Senator Clinton. When HRC announced that it "hurt her feelings" that people...

After his address on religion last week, I'm sure I'll never be invited to Mitt Romney's White House should he be elected President. It's not just because as a National Public Radio commentator, documentary filmmaker, single-payer universal healthcare proponent and driver's license for illegal immigration-supporting liberal, I don't travel in...

Hi, my name is Annabelle, and I'm a taxaholic. It's hard for me to admit this, but I think it's time to own up: I'm powerless over the idea that taxes are not a bad way to fund programs that might do some good for our country. My addiction has...

Seen, heard and observed on the picket line in Los Angeles as the Writers Guild of America strike enters its second week:

Too much enthusiasm: Writers picketing in Che Guevara T-shirt.
Too little enthusiasm: Writers picketing with Blackberrys and cell phones.

Too much fun: Walking the line with everyone...

This just in: according to two new studies measuring the happiness index, women are less happy than we used to be and markedly more disgruntled than men. Speculation has been that this study confirms what most of my friends and I experience as the current state of postfeminist feminism. Between...