I had been sitting out the presidential race until now, hoping that Sonny Bono would throw his hat into the ring, but as soon as I was informed that he'd been dead for fourteen years, I decided it was time to get off the couch.

Once word got out that...

November of 2009, in response to Newsweek's "Twelve Comics Who Aren't Funny," I offer, "Let Us Now Bash Robin Williams Part I," in which I defended (most of) the unfunny twelve, and complained that the Newsweek writer, Sarah Ball, should have taken on sacred comedy cows...

A quick chronology: November of 2009, in response to Newsweek's "Twelve Comics Who Aren't Funny,"
I offer in these pages, "Let Us Now Bash Robin Williams Part I," in which I defended (most of) the unfunny twelve, and protested that the author, Sarah Ball, should...

If BP was in charge of everything...

The Titanic: Tony Hayward says he expects sinkage will be "very, very modest."

Apollo 13: "Houston, we have a problem! And, we want our shareholders to know that we have $2.63 billion in dividends that we plan to pay to them for the...

A question for the holiday season: On your train ride home to see the family, you sat down next to a stranger. As strangers often do, they tell you many personal details of their lives: no health insurance, non-union service job that pays $9.50 an hour, a sister who needs...

One of the many already stateable tragedies of President Obama and Afghanistan is that while Lyndon Johnson (the man Obama seems bent on morphing into -- inspirational leaders on the home front, blind about a foreign war) dove into Vietnam driven by two fundamental elements that made his choice almost...

Who is Sarah Ball and why is she saying awful things about Emo Phillips? And, why is she not saying awful things about Robin Williams? I.E., if she is going to bash those twelve, she ought to also be brave enough, and have the critical eye required, to take...

Keith Olbermann long ago raised vamping to a high art. Originally, a steadfast, bold, refreshing and groundbreaking progressive voice for MSNBC, his Countdown show has devolved into a display of self-aggrandizing name calling featuring he, Rush, Bill (Billo'), and Sean, leaving us with, aside from that, a vacant hour of...

This week, President Obama hits the road to sell a stimulus bill that he has already sold out.

Meanwhile, heroic Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenbeger and his crew are in New York receiving the key to the city for safely landing US Airways Flight 1549 in the middle of the Hudson...

The Wailing Wall of Bush. Except instead of pushing notes of prayer into the crevices, you draw out limitless notes of havoc.

Of all the lines in George Bush's farewell address, I thought the most shocking was "like all who have held this office before me."...

At some point during tonight's presidential debate in Nashville, an audience member will ask Barack Obama some sort of question concerning his "character." Obama's answer should include the following:

Well, yes, I've even heard I've been "palling around with terrorists." But you know, sometimes in political campaigns people are...

Lots of reasons to be in a funk on Iraq.

Funk: Even on days when the Dow doesn't drop 500 points, the war moves farther and farther off the front page until the only place you'll find the word "Baghdad" is in a review of a book by Bob Woodward...

Barack Obama brought us a wonderful speech. Obama's speech produced "a bump" that polls alone couldn't possibly measure. I got choked up and a jump in my diaphragm that is, for me, a completely unfamiliar physical response to any event - except the speeches of Martin Luther King Jr. and...

I keep hearing that Democratic senators have to hold back on blasting John McCain because "they have to work with him." I even hear it from some Democratic nattering-nabobs. What? Let John McCain worry about that. Which is preferable? Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama -- among others -- walk...

Small details, exact costs, specifics, particulars - all are fatal to a convention speech. Just ask Bill Clinton as he walked off the podium after delivering his keynote address at the 1988 Democratic Convention. And yet, when the themes for the next couple of nights - "Renewing America's Promise," "Securing...

The 110th Congress didn't bring the troops home. John McCain isn't interested in bringing the troops home. Barack Obama wants to redeploy the troops to another unnecessary, likely quagmire in Afghanistan. And, now President Bush wants to bring the troops home by 2011. It would be funny if it's weren't...

$500 million for Faith-Based Initiatives? Wow. Got to say, even after the last week, I didn't see that one coming. Too many Sister Souljah moments to count. What I want to see now are some more Sister Souljah moments -- ones moving back to the left.

Barack Obama dealt...

I'm thinking of tapping Barack Obama's phone. Yeah, why not? I want to find out why he's been sharing milkshakes with Antonin Scalia.

While I'm waiting for him to come on the line, let me run this by you: Remember Mark Penn? Former chief strategist for Hillary Clinton. He...

Barack Obama has gone back on his word, Barack Obama is a hypocrite ... I couldn't be happier. With Obama turning down public financing, idealist can be heard saying, "Obama promised 'a new kind of politics.'" Well, let him get to that once he's in office.

As for myself,...