I don't know about you, but the only way I survived the State of the Union was by imagining what it would be like if George W. Bush said what he really meant rather than making bad ideas sound good by using generalities. Since Bush usually has so much trouble...

So, if you are going to watch the speech this Tuesday, you might as well make it interesting, or at least less painful. Invite over some friends so you can commiserate together...

What to Serve:

• Bologna sandwiches: sandwiches that are, like the president,...

Before George W. Bush stunned us all by beating John Kerry, even before he stunned us all by beating Al Gore, he stunned us all by beating Ann Richards. How he beat Richards in the race for governor of Texas is almost as hard for this northerner to comprehend...

It may be hard to believe that there is a creepy aspect of the JonBenet Ramsey case that the media have neglected to report, but there is. Watching some of the recent coverage of the reemergence of the case weirded me out, only it wasn't the fault of the...

Should we really be shocked at the latest revelations about how the National Security Agency is keeping tabs on the phone calls of innocent Americans? It seems like the NSA wiretapping/call-monitoring scandal has yet to unravel completely. With the Bush administration, any usurpation of our privacy tends to follow the...