Kevin Hench is a film and television writer. His first feature film, The Hammer, will be in theaters March 21, 2008. His single-season record for free throw percentage (54-60, 90 percent) still stands at Hanover (N.H.) High School.

Blog Entries by Kevin Hench

10 Questions for Hillary Supporters

Posted March 7, 2008 | 04:16 PM (EST)


1. When did Sen. Clinton cross the Commander-in-Chief threshold?

2. Was it before or after October 11, 2002 when she flunked the biggest foreign policy test of her career and voted to authorize the war in Iraq?

3. How can a candidate claim to be ready on Day...

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My Representative, the Superdelegate

Posted February 11, 2008 | 07:24 PM (EST)


So let me get this straight: superdelegates can either A) echo the voice of the people or B) circumvent the will of the people.

They can either do nothing or fuck everything up. Great.

In the nominating process, they are a vestigial tail that serves no positive purpose but can...

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If Kissing Jessica Stein Had a Sequel

Posted April 19, 2007 | 11:40 AM (EST)


If you're like me, you start every day with a cup of coffee, the Huffington Post and - if Chris Kelly has posted - a paralyzing inferiority complex.

For over a year I've been ducking Arianna's entreaties to blog with the excuse that I'm too busy working on my movie...

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Joe Vs. the Volcano

Posted August 10, 2006 | 03:10 PM (EST)



His first wife. President Clinton. Al Gore. The people of Connecticut. The Democratic Party.

The Joe Lieberman Loyalty Tour rolls on.

If Christoper Hitchens ever writes a book about Joe Lieberman he should call it "No One Left To Stick A Shiv In."

Ironic that Joe Lieberman's second,...

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Are You Trying to Seduce Me, Ms. Miller?

Posted March 15, 2006 | 02:48 PM (EST)


"Yes; quaint and curious war is!
You shoot a fellow down
You'd treat if met where any bar is,
Or help to half-a-crown."

-Thomas Hardy, The Man He Killed

Perhaps if I had met Judith Miller in a hotel bar back in our single...

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"Original" Sin

Posted March 2, 2006 | 07:15 PM (EST)


HOLLYWOOD, CA -- The signs telling me when and where I am not welcome in my own neighborhood can only mean one thing: it's Oscar time!

Even though the high-security lockdown surrounding my house will force me to find some longer, alternative route to and from my soccer practice in...

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One of the Worst Days of Cheney's Life

Posted February 18, 2006 | 12:36 AM (EST)


It was, by his own admission, "one of the worst days of his life."

Not, by any stretch, the worst, but certainly one of the worst.

As he agonized over whether or not to accept Harry Whittington's apology for having the temerity to get his face in front of the...

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