In the proud tradition of carriage mechanic William Howard Russell, gas lamp repairman Stephen Crane, and pipe-fitter David Halberstam, Pajamas Media* is sending unlicensed plumber Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher to Gaza as a war correspondent. As the Pajama party notes, Joe the Plumber "shook up America" and "he's ready to do...

I can't remember if it was Casey Kasem or Chuck Klosterman who recently noted that "Reviewing Chinese Democracy is not like reviewing music. It's more like reviewing a unicorn. Should I primarily be blown away that it exists at all?"

But after giving the rock-and-roll version of Magnolia...

Now that we've been able to shake off our Election Night hangovers, (thanks 23/6!) it's time to assess what the 1,460-day campaign taught us. Clearly, there were winners and losers along the way, and not just the obvious ones like Yentl or Lt. Col....

To paraphrase the great political scientist Penny Lane:

Tomorrow, It's all happening.

After months of campaigning, the United States will finally have a new man in charge. You've probably made up your mind by now, but as the author of the Complete Idiot's Guide to the American Presidents, I...

While perusing an exhibition of Presidential bric-a-brac at the Museum of the City of New York this weekend, I noticed a 2000 campaign button that gave me pause:

Trump 2000.

I'd forgotten that just eight years ago, Donald Trump threw his hairpiece into the ring as a member of the...

In a revelatory piece of analysis sure to affect the outcome of the presidential election, MSNBC boldly predicted the key group that will send either Barack Obama or John McCain to the White House.

How political pundits, pollsters and politicos missed these "white women" and their voting patterns...

My Dearest Rachel,

On this historic day, your MSNBC show debuts, and a fragment of the cable news network will finally be able to see what I see, to know what I know, to feel what I feel.

We're talking love, baby.

A love that is spreading about the...

On top of the $250,000 in home repairs that led to an indictment of Republican Senator Ted Stevens, a further co-investigation by the Alaskan Highway Patrol and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police uncovered a secret slush fund. A can of instant Folgers coffee hidden away in a crawl...

George W. Bush left his last G8 Summit in Japan with one final sayonara to his global peers:

"Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter."

To lay-people the world over, his brilliant sentiment came across as yet another off-the-cuff pearl of folksy wisdom. However, an anonymous White...

Generally speaking, the rap game is mostly associated with the game of basketball. It's certainly true that hoops and hip-hop go together like Joseph Simmons and Darryl McDaniels, but it also certainly true that DMC will be playing in the NFL Celebrity Flag Football Challenge next Saturday in Arizona and...