This morning The New York Post appears with an unbelievable cover story-literally unbelievable. Headlined (at least online) as "AXED GALS TAKE POLE POSITIONS: Pros Stripping Amid Wall St. $lump", the article by Anka Radakovich (one time sex columnist for Details magazine) reports "Scores of professional New York women stripped...

Whatever else anybody says, the real reason why nobody at Treasury pulled the plug on the AIG bonuses is simple: nobody thought the sums were truly outrageous or that the practice was completely outside the norm. Sometime over the last ten days, of course, everyone became a virgin again and...

If history is repeating itself, it's watching itself in a mirror. Listening to the right-wingers weep and wail and gnash their teeth against Barack Obama and his initiatives at the CPAC convention this past weekend, one heard a party that was befuddled and confused. They could not believe that their...

Freedom-wise, there's nowhere more self-satisfied than Britain. Bastion of personal liberty, home of the ground-breaking Magna Carta, the place where the sturdy yeoman can sit under his thatched roof secure from the intrusions of the king... Pull the other one. Any sentient citizen must realize that in terms of liberty,...

Call it bad luck. President Obama gets passed a stimulus bill aimed to revive the economy, and Karl Rove says that what he's really done is revive the GOP.

Arguing in The Wall Street Journal that ``sometime late this year or early next the economy'' would have rebounded...

I don't like cheaters and I don't like perjurers and I couldn't care less if Alex Rodriguez spends the next nine years getting booed (if you're sympathetic, envision Madonna giving him a nightly cuddle to soothe his bruised ego and saying "Now now, Alex, it will be all right. Here,...

Maybe I missed it, but where was the Fireside Chat?

Eight days after his swearing-in, Franklin Roosevelt went on the radio for the first of the so-called fireside chats. He had declared a bank holiday, and he told people why. He explained why bank runs were so damaging, how they...

Following Tuesday's Official Swearing-In and Wednesday's Swearing-In Unplugged, the White House this morning announced the swearing-in schedule for the rest of the month.

January 22nd: Swearing in En Espanol
January 23rd: Swearing In: Dance Party Mix
January 24th: Backwards Day nI gniraewS
January 25th: Swearing In All...

These Days, More and More People Are Looking For Work

Dear Mr. Cheney:

Thank you for your recent letter inquiry about a position with the Gallup organization. As one of the nation's leading polling firms, we are always on the lookout for individuals with talent and experience,...

The holiday movie season is upon us. No, I don't mean Four Christmases and Nothing Like the Holidays and the endless broadcasts of It's A Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th Street. I'm talking about Valkyrie, the movie about the attempted assassination of Hitler, and The Spirit, Frank Miller's blood-saturated...

Will all famous people turn out to be surprisingly stupid? Six weeks ago, Sarah Palin surprised us with her understanding of the vice president's duties by saying, inaccurately, "They're in charge of the US Senate so if they want to, they can really get in there with the Senators and...

FOXBORO, MASS. -- Acting boldly to fill the void left by the injury to perennial All-Pro Tom Brady, the New England Patriots announced that they had signed Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as the team's starting quarterback. "We're extremely excited," said team owner Robert Kraft. "In Sarah Palin, we have a...

The Montana cabin where Theodore Kaczynski was captured is included in an exhibit on the history of the FBI currently mounted at Washington's Newseum. In a hand-written letter to the US Court of Appeals which can be viewed at The Smoking Gun, the infamous Unabomber, whose bombs...

Sunday night marks the return of Mad Men, the AMC program that is now without dispute the best program on television. What's most interesting about this series is that even though each episode emphasizes different characters having different experiences and feeling different emotions, one prominent element of every episode is...

The story rocking my little town in suburban New York is that of a senior at our high school's graduation ceremony who marked the occasion by mooning the audience. This act would have been news enough, but then the principal -- a fine and dedicated public servant known to...

Don't look for Scott McClellan at any Bush administration reunions. His old mates seem none too happy with him these days. Of course, what they're saying may not be exactly the same as what they're thinking.

WHAT PRESS SECRETARY DANA PERINO SAID: "[The President] is puzzled, and he doesn't recognize...

The other shoe dropped last week. Senator McCain appeared before a group of students at Wake Forest and vowed to appoint judges "strictly faithful to the Constitution'' who would not engage in "the common and systemic abuse of our federal courts." As The New York Times noted, "The issue...

Tonight the American Society of Magazine Editors will present its annual awards that recognize excellence in the various talents and skills that go into making magazines. Those who have been nominated, and those who will win -- many among them my friends and former colleagues -- well deserve this acknowledgment...

So Governor Eliot Spitzer has acknowledged importing a prostitute from New York to Washington DC. This certainly seems like the 21st century, service economy version of carrying coals to Newcastle. One would think it would be possible to find a prostitute in Washington, but maybe Jack Abramoff's experience had a...