We're in hard times, it's reasonable to expect that people will look for saviors and fantastical escapes -- be they in the form of vegetarian vampires or meat eating pseudo-author/pseudo-politicians.
If your family is as patriotic as mine, your Thanksgiving dinner ends like ours does: the women clear the dishes while the men loosen their pants, and the children make me recite passages from Republican political memoirs.
My favorite recovering felon, Martha Stewart, was asked her thoughts on our most recent political pin-up girl Sarah Palin. I wasn't surprised that Martha didn't pull any punches.
Maybe there was something about Ms. Palin that everyone had missed. Maybe the secret of her attraction would finally, suddenly, become dazzlingly clear to me.
Dynamic equilibrium was one of those concepts most of us learned to reduce to a formula in chemistry class. The proof formula was far too complicated...
Now that Going Rogue is out, it's worth taking a look at the book that Ken Silverstein at Harper's says is "essential reading for all political junkies": I Am Martin Eisenstadt.
Name the last governor you know of -- ever -- who quit. At any time. Out of the blue, unprompted. Other than being appointed to a higher job...or indicted. Just quit.
Sarah Palin's rhetoric against the East and West Coast elites, and liberal media, appeals to aggrieved "ordinary Americans", in her phrase. Sounds like "the silent majority." Is this Nixon redux?
On Monday I learned that I'm in Sarah Palin's Going Rogue. Not surprisingly, that piqued my interest. I've now read it and here's the review.
Despite the media frenzy surrounding Sarah Palin's autobiographical Going Rogue, the real rogue warrior making a political conservative comeback today...
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.
Last Wednesday, a media firestorm erupted after a seventeen-year-old girl named Jackie was interviewed by MSNBC's Norah O'Donnell while standing in line during Sarah Palin's Michigan book signing.
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...
