Move over Dr. Atkins, there's a new diet guru on the scene. You may recall that a few years ago he called you "fat," and suggested your death was more a result of your eating habits than a bad fall. But while this new guru's approach affects millions, he...

President Obama could not have asked for a better birthday gift this week than the full-fledged arrival of The Birthers, best embodied by a raving, bleached-blonde, Soviet Jewish expat lawyer/realtor/dentist named Orly Taitz. (She's a lot like Don King, but without all that credibility.) Her meltdown Monday on MSNBC...

If a state legalizes gay marriage and nobody notices, can gay people still get married? What if four states do it in six weeks?

As more states legalize same-sex marriage, the lack of outrage is striking. Forget the Armageddon we were promised. There's hardly even been a press conference. It...

SARS must be rolling over in its grave.

Along comes swine flu, a second-rate pretender to the SARS throne, and you'd think it was the second coming of the Black Death. Suddenly we are besieged, not by a large number of people who are actually sick, but by a...

February has always been the worst month. It has one holiday devoted to a rodent predicting the weather, and another devoted to reminding single people they have no right to be happy. It's the month where we mark black history with simplistic Hallmark specials and sales on grape soda....