As yet another scandal opens up the national psyche, and we trot out our outrage over the cheaters, it once again reveals our national balancing act of illusion and reality. Our popular fiction. And our non-fiction. There's the myth--the purity of the game, the green grass, the...

Between the strike and the impending holiday season, I've found myself in a few malls lately. I've spent a lot of my life in malls. I don't hate malls. In fact, I secretly like them. It's something to do when you've got kids. Millions of...

The mayor of New York has given up his attempt to issue driver's licenses to undocumented aliens. And Hillary will soon be gently moonwalking away from that moment when she seemed to agree with it--immigration as political football. Xenophobia occasionally disguised as patriotism and a stern immigration policy...

A priest and an animal of some kind go into a bar. The bartender says something to the effect that an animal in a bar is a somewhat unusual occurrence, and then the animal says something funny. A guy goes into a whorehouse and asks what he can get for...