Books Are Bad for You
A few years ago, writing about the book business and how dumbed down and craven books had become--and pathetic, designed only to sell and then not sel...
A few years ago, writing about the book business and how dumbed down and craven books had become--and pathetic, designed only to sell and then not sel...
As you may have heard, in an interview on CNN's Showbiz Tonight, Martha Stewart had some less than flattering things to say about Sarah Palin. Stewar...
In deference to reading about Sarah Palin's book Going Rogue on The Daily Kos and watching clips from her appearance on Oprah, I wrote a rev...
Lots of people on the right and left agree about the problems with the bailouts and the White House has no answers for them. How do you think that will play at the polls?
The Republican Party did a disservice to itself, to women, to the country, and to Palin when they nominated her. It was an insult to proceed as though women would vote for gender rather than qualification and policy position.
Despite Sarah Palin's success as a wife, a mother, politician, opinion leader and now author, large numbers of black people just are not feeling her.
I've been blogging since June of 2006 and have not avoided controversial issues or people. But something I recently posted at Psychology Today, "Sarah...
Is there something deeper going on in our national psyche when our fascination with sexy, blood thirsty, teenage vampires coincides with a thirst for more Sarah?
The release of Sarah Palin's book, Going Rogue, has been an occasion of great frivolity amongst those of us on the left.
Leave it to a spunky Northern California bookseller to steal some of the thunder away from Sarah Palin. Bookshop Santa Cruz, located in Downtown San...
There's so much not to like about Sarah Palin ... why do I find myself admiring her?
I watched the lines of people waiting for Sarah Palin at a Grand Rapids book signing, and had to wonder, as I have many times in the past: what's the attraction?
One thing is certain about our Palin Hate Affair: the biggest winner will be Sarah Palin.
Is there anyone quite like Sarah Palin online? At the moment, no -- not Michael Jackson, not Manny Pacquiao, not even President Obama, according to Google Insights for Search.
Bookshop Santa Cruz is giving a bag of Sarah "Palin's Just Plain Nutz" for everyone who purchases a copy of Palin's memoirs.
Sarah Palin blew into Grand Rapids with all the stagecraft (and subtlety) of Lady Gaga, pulling up in a bus ensconced with the cover photo from her book, down to her glossy lips and heavenward gaze.
The concepts of creationism and "intelligent design" deserve no more credibility than that given to those who continue to "believe" in a flat earth.
This is a phenomenon that just keeps giving. Its very lack of explanation, and ensuing incredulity and apoplexy, propel it. There may not have ever ...
The Oxford dictionary just added a new entry to their big book of words: unfriend, and I'm unfriending Sarah Palin.
We have yet to hear any pitch from Palin's supporters that elevates her above any other Republican in the current field of candidates. She's famous. And. Hmm. She's famous. That's it.
A companion fragrance, Tundra for Men, will be released next week. Also in the works: a $150,000 Palin wardrobe set called Going Vogue, and I Can See Russia designer eyeglasses.