Once again, President Obama has done the right thing, and once again he'll be eviscerated by the opinion- (read: noise-) makers on the right. In this case, he's come out in favor of building a mosque in Lower Manhattan, somewhere in the general vicinity of Ground Zero, thereby nefariously supporting...

My grandfather grew up in one of those quaint European countries that don't exactly exist anymore, and while he never quite mastered the English language, he was always an ardent fan. Or, as he would have put it, an eager beagle.

In my grandfather's world, if you got in trouble...

If you're watching ESPN at all these days, you can't help noticing their heavy hype for the upcoming World Cup soccer championship in South Africa. Of course they're wheeling out the heavy hype because, yeah, guess what, they want you to care and they want you to watch. In this...

When The West Wing was on television during the dark years of the George W. Bush administration, I always used to think (lament, really), "Why can't we have a president like Josiah Bartlet?" The guy was so sensible. He did the right things for the right reasons, and if people...

Woody Allen said, "If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans." That phrase has echoed in my mind for a week now, ever since the Eyjafjallajokull Volcano erupted, grounding every plane in Europe and stranding travelers in such godawful hellholes as Amsterdam, Paris and Rome. I...

So I was in Moscow last week, working on the Russian version of Married...with Children and one of my colleagues asked me what I thought about the new Belarusian situation comedy, The Theorists. It seems that an "unauthorized" (read: fully pirated) version of Chuck Lorre's wonderful sitcom, The Big Bang...