I thought I was beyond outrage, that somehow I'd managed to slip through a wormhole in the red state/blue state universe and find a little place next door to the Dalai Lama - Dalai Lama adjacent, as the spiritual Realtors say. But then I read Justice Kennedy's majority opinion...

Okay, I've canvassed most of my friends since the election this past Tuesday and the prevailing mood seems to be not euphoria, but relief. It's as if the bully had finally been removed from the classroom, and we could go back to enjoying other, even have the...

According to news reports, Vice-President Dick Cheney - or a man closely resembling him - appeared on Fox television earlier today and "took responsibility for the shooting." This announcement will mollify one side of the ideological divide and enrage others. Unsure which side of the divide you come down on?...

Just as I had found the silver lining in Hurricane Katrina -- at least it put the kibosh on Bush's promotional tour for "The Ownership Society" -- he goes and suspends the Davis-Baker Act. What kind of "Monopoly" game is he playing?

Granted, I'm not a good "Monopoly" player. I...

Not to diss Alanis Morisette – of whom I’m a huge fan - but when it comes to spotting irony, I’m as good as it gets. Like in today’s L.A. Times, President Bush says he plans to take a mountain bike ride in Texas “if I can survive the near-hundred...

Hilary Rosen says her shipmate buddies on a recent cruise “asked ...why the Democrats are focusing so much attention on Karl Rove and not, instead, on providing a better alternative story for the American people to hear. It’s a good question.”

Here’s another: What good’s an alternative story...

Forget Karl Rove, what’s up with Arlen Specter? The man who explained the magic bullet theory to the Warren Commission – my favorite piece of sketch comedy after “Who’s on first?” - the Senator who savaged Anita Hill during the Clarence Thomas hearings (Yes, I know he’s pro-choice but still,...