A book's title is a writer's pick up line. We yearn for the potential buyer to pick up our book, admire its colorful jacket, examine the blurbs, and leaf the pages as our words leap forth, nimble and irresistible. We want readers to whisper softly with Humphrey Bogart: "I think...

Dear Creation,

With a New Year just around the corner, I want to clear up some things that have been troubling Me. There is a wicked and blasphemous rumor floating around the Universe that I Am a card-carrying Republican. Finally, I want to settle the question: Who are You?

The next time you're in a public place and some politician peers into your eyes, broadens his stance, taps for your attention, and begins spouting "family values" rhetoric, run for the nearest exit.

Since Larry Craig was once a co-worker of mine in the U.S. Senate, I feel...

Back in grade school, you could acquire considerable status if you had some distinguishing feature that set you apart from others.

For instance, we were all envious of Rodney. The wimpy fourth-grader did not have much going for him in looks or smarts, but he was double-jointed -- a much-admired...

Madam Palfrey's revelations, once billed as a bombshell, appear to be fizzling out with no one higher than a "senior official" being fingered.

For the disappointed, let's take a stroll down memory lane.

Among Capitol Hill "sexploits" occurring in the Seventies are a couple of doozies that...

Washington parks are dotted with bronzed warriors, each perched upon his mount, charging forth to battle. Legend has it that there is an "artist's code" when it comes to depicting heroes and horses. If one hoof is raised, the hero was wounded in battle; two hooves, he died in battles;...

I almost feel sorry for my Republican friends.

They once belonged to a respectable political party that could be trusted from time to time to run the country--with some oversight of a Democratic congress, of course.

Now, that the GOP party bus is out of control, careening downhill headed for...