I've been trying to figure out why Matt Harding and Melissa Nixon's Dancing 2008, the breakout viral video of the moment, is so charming, so endlessly watchable, and ultimately so moving. (If you haven't seen it yet, I won't spoil it for you. Watch it below.)

There are many reasons to root for the Celtics over the Lakers in the NBA finals, which head to Boston on Tuesday for a critical Game 6. But there is one above all.

A Celts victory will force LA Times basketball columnist Bill Plaschke to shut up.

It will...

Today's Los Angeles Times profiles Mayhill Fowler, the Huffington Post blogger and "citizen journalist" who got Bill Clinton to go postal on Vanity Fair's Todd Purdum. The LAT buries the lede, though, in not noting until the 14th paragraph that Fowler's question to Clinton was "What do you...

PHILADELPHIA - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton says she has something in common with legendary film boxer Rocky Balboa -- she's not a quitter. Recalling a famous scene on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art from the 1976 Oscar-winning film "Rocky," Clinton said that ending her presidential campaign now...

I'm not going to link to it, but there's a video out there of NBC Universal chairman Jeff Zucker that's apparently supposed to precede next week's return of My Name Is Earl. Forget that Zucker is a lousy performer and his attempts at a comic style are gut-wrenching. These alone...

In a speech last week at George Washington University, Hillary Clinton recalled a 1996 trip to Bosnia and said she remembered "landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to...

The New York Times discovers, in today's Business section, that the kids are now watching TV shows on their computers. (Whoa! It's like I'm talkin' space talk!) The piece is downright exhaustive, including both the name of an actual Los Angeles screenwriter (Peer Gopfrich) and the kind of big...

" ...But there's a phone in the White House and it's ringing.... Who do you want answering the phone?" (Clinton campaign spot, 2/29/08)

...Really? You do? Him? Hmm. Okay, well... Okay, so wait. Wait. Let's say it's like... It's like FOUR in the morning. Okay? And your children are safe...

You may recall French soccer star Zinedine Zidane's epic lapse of composure in the 2006 World Cup final. Zidane grew irritated in what would turn out to be a losing match against Italy, started jawing with Italy's Marco Materazzi and ended up pasting Materazzi with a vicious headbutt. If you...

A close reading of the transcript from last night's CNN/Univision debate reveals that everyone on stage plagiarized from me. The proof:

Whatever happens, we're going to be fine. -- Hillary Clinton, last night
I'm fine. I'm going to be fine. Just go away. -- Me, to my wife, after...

Co-anchoring MSNBC's coverage of the Potomac Primaries last night (or the Beltway Battle, or The Race In The Place or whatever we're supposed to call it), Keith Olbermann nailed what ought to be the McCain campaign's guiding principle for free-media exposure: Do not under any circumstances allow the news nets...

Is it just me, or is there something distasteful about MSNBC's use of the word "embeds" to describe its people traveling with the presidential campaigns? That's EM-beds, the plural noun that first came into currency with the journalists sent into the war zone under Pentagon auspices in 2003. It didn't...

The Clintons' strategy for the run-up to Super Tuesday is coming into focus, and there's something extraordinarily graceless about it. Both the ex-president and the New York senator led their Saturday night remarks with expressions of delight that "millions of Americans will make their voices heard" on February 5th --...

Readers of Gawker and other sites have been viewing the Tom Cruise video in huge numbers this week. It's undeniably been a public service, if not necessarily the kind Cruise intended. Like a lot of people, though, I've been baffled by some of the top-secret intra-church abbreviations Cruise uses....

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Sen. Hillary Clinton got "teary eyed" responding to a personal question at the end of a New Hampshire campaign event today. Over on MSNBC, the National Journal's Athena Jones is describing it as a revelatory moment of real emotion. Neither news source...

In case you've been wondering why you love books, Jeff Bezos has the answer: They're so darn disappearable! "I love slipping into a comfortable chair for a long read," the Amazon founder confides on the site's front page today. "As I relax into the chair, I also relax into the...

Peter Bogdanovich's magisterial Runnin' Down a Dream (re-airing tonight and Saturday on The Sundance Channel) does what it wants to do: It makes a powerful case for Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers as the great American rock and roll band of the last three decades. Petty serves as a...

I've been a professional writer for a number of years, am reasonably well-educated and have a good grasp of English. I tell you this to lay the groundwork for what I am about to say: I have absolutely no idea what the following paragraph means.

Nominally about high school football...

One man charged along with [O.J. Simpson] said Tuesday that the Las Vegas hotel room dispute seemed like a setup.

Walter Alexander, 46, said Simpson may have been tricked because the memorabilia dealer who tipped him off also recorded everything on tape.

"It sounds like a setup to...

I stopped watching Lost when it became apparent that the writers weren't ever going to resolve anything, ever, and that I would die a lonely bitter old man before I got the answers to basic story-related questions like "How did that thing get there, and what is it?" Now I...