I kind of owe Mark Sanford. The scandal that led him to assume the role of poor, dumb, love-struck Paris, willing to bring war to Troy's gates in the name of forbidden desire, was the jumping off point for what I think is the best piece ever to be published...

I somehow managed to write a 1,300 word column on Alex Jones recently without giving myself the kind of excruciating migraine that usually leads me to spend hours hovering near the sink out of fear that I'll need to throw up into it at some point. Jones has that...

I truly hate who we are these days.

By now there's a pretty good chance you know A.J. Clemente so well that it feels like he'd get an invitation to your next family reunion. Over the past few days, the guy has been everywhere -- from your email inbox, to...

I'm way past the point in my life where the break-up of any band should provoke much of a reaction from me. I've got day-to-day concerns right now that are a hell of a lot more pressing than whether a bunch of people whose music I happen to like will...

Several years back I was out with some friends in Fort Lauderdale when I came across a porn star. No, not literally.

Our group had decided to go grab sushi at a popular place and as we approached the hostess stand to put our name in for a table,...

I suppose it would be too much to ask for the Catholic Church to simply close up shop once Pope Benedict officially steps down, eh?

The important thing to keep in mind in the wake of the once-and-future Joseph Ratzinger's surprise announcement that he'll be abdicating the papacy is...

I caught a decent little movie on Netflix last week called Heckler. It attempts to document the contentious relationship between comics and comic actors and those paying comedy club patrons who take it upon themselves to confront them during their sets, hoping to, I guess, get the upper hand in...

I have to admit that in the few months immediately leading up to the presidential election of 2008, Sarah Palin provided me with some of the best material I've ever had the opportunity to write about and the result was some of the most entertaining political stuff to ever...

I have this great image in my head of Joe Arpaio with a patch over one eye and wearing a long black leather coat, walking into a tiny dishwasher repair shop in a strip mall somewhere in unincorporated Phoenix. He approaches the aging owner of the place, seeming to appear...

The media quote of the week comes to us from NBC chief Bob Greenblatt, who said at this past weekend's Television Critics Association conference: "We talked him out of running for president. Wasn't that good enough?"

The "he" Greenblatt is talking about is Donald Trump -- pompous buffoon, national...

I'm sure you probably already know this, but it's a really tough time to be a white guy of a certain age right now. Everything's just so upside-down and nothing's how it used to be, with white guys of a certain age lumbering across the face of the earth like...

Anybody who's kept up with me on my site or here knows that I have a habit of defending people who say really dumb things, particularly if those dumb things were intended to get a laugh. The issue as far as I'm concerned isn't that you shouldn't expect to face...

I realize that I'm fast becoming this site's resident miserable bastard contributor, devoid of all passion for political discourse and oozing nothing but contempt for the entire process, but can anybody really blame me at this point? If you want to know why I've all but given up on trying...

A quick word or two about the topless pictures of Kate Middleton now circulating online and the royal family's response to them.

So what?

First of all, the idea that a French magazine -- a French magazine -- would get all "mon dieu!" and pretend that it's a big...

So you're never going to believe this, but Jason Biggs, the kid who made himself famous by pretending to fuck a pie, apparently has a really crude sense of humor and a filthy mouth to go with it. In case you haven't yet seen the mushroom cloud off in the...

There's an entertaining little column currently running at CNN.com that I have to admit made me do a double-take, mostly because it focuses on something about Paul Ryan that I should have picked up on but which I've strangely overlooked: he's my age. The piece posits that Ryan's "Gen...

I'm probably going to sound like the stereotypical old guy in the room here, but bear with me.

The first time I voted for president was in 1992 and, like many my age at the time, I voted for Bill Clinton. The reason should be obvious to anyone who lived...

I've been putting off writing something like this for a very long time. True, for quite a while I've kept a running tab of his scathing, subversive and generally balls-out brilliant comments -- the ones that have gotten him justifiably tagged as the lone voice of reason at his place...

I used to have a motto that I lived by when it came to the notion of job security in the TV news business -- it's one I'd pass along to the various rising stars coming up through the ranks whenever the winds of change were gathering in the corner...

I've never been one of those people to let a little corporate malfeasance stand in the way of getting what I want. Call me an asshole, but the fact is that I'm cynical and realistic enough to understand that every company is probably engaged in some kind of behavior I'd...