It had been a few weeks, and too long, since I went to Zuccotti Park in the financial district of Manhattan to check out the Occupy Wall St. scene. So I hopped on the subway, and made my way to the Ground Zero of the nascent awakening of the masses....

And so this is America. Another week passed, a fresh batch of outrage cooked up by a GOP intent on serving platters of goodies to their base, the elites, at the expense of the fiscal and emotional well being of the rest of us poor bastards. And depending on how...

First things first, let me be explicit about the purpose of this piece, and my own leanings. This is a plug, pure and simple, for the new book by Matt Taibbi, called Griftopia.

I happen to think Taibbi is his generation's Hunter S. Thompson, without the brain draining whiskey/coke/psychedelic addiction....

In July 1974, a music journalist named Nick Kent, in the New Musical Express, tagged Keith Richards, the Rolling Stones co-foundation and guitarist, as "The World's Most Elegantly Wasted Human Being."

Richards had already emerged as a friend piper in rock, as a magnet for youth searching for a role...

For those who might believe that it is over for Tiger Woods, that the adoration from fans and media will cease, that the endorsement spigot of Goldman-level money is permanently shut off, that this scandal has irrevocably, indelibly scarred Tiger, and that he will never recover, let me offer...

Virtually every human being deserves the benefit of the doubt upon their passing. As we ponder a man's time upon this plane, we try to err on the side of generosity as we assess his time on Earth, and his accomplishments, if for no other reason than we ourselves would...

Knock on wood, but it's feeling like Team Obama has run a damn near flawless campaign as we count down to D-Day, when we all decide whether we desire a serene, cerebral, empathetic person in the White House, or we choose another emotionally stunted Top Gunner who is destined to...

I mean, if I come out of this experience with anything, it's being a better person and learning from my mistakes and making sure that I don't repeat them. --James Frey to Oprah Winfrey on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Jan. 26, 2206

If anyone could get James Frey to see...

On November 16th, the House of Representatives rejected a bill that would have forced the formation of a federal regulatory body which would have attempted to address some of the ills that infect the savage science.

The scorecard read: 233 against the bill, 190 for the bill which would have...

Somewhere, at this moment, a woman in your town is looking online to purchase a raft. She comprehends, even through she voted for the President, that this administration doesn't really care about her and her family during a catastrophic emergency. The woman is black.

Somewhere, at this moment, a man...