As we had our holiday dinner together, my kids asked me why billions can be spent on an expanding war, bailing out the auto industry and the banks, but when it comes to health care, people are afraid of a "government takeover."
What would you say to Elin Nordegren (Mrs. Tiger Woods) if you were her BFF? Bad news can take many forms but the rules of friendship--how to help a c...
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What Did You Learn in 2009? Test your knowledge by answering these objectively scientific questions about the celebrities, politicians and fifteen minute famers who made headlines.
I was kind of hoping I wouldn't have to address this subject, but an etymological battle in Washington seems to have just been stirred up further, mea...
In the U.S. any child can grow up to become president. But with our new 24/7 cable/Internet news culture, it's more fun to explain why you're not running for President.
The Good Wife deftly hints at how even the most well meaning of us, men and women, aren't always well doing.
For me, the Women's Conference and the times represent another significant change that also begins with "em:" less about empowerment and more about emotion.
The Good Wife is closer than any Oprah or Barbara Walters special will ever be to bringing this viewer to understanding why Hilda Spitzer, Elizabeth Edwards (until recently), and Hilary Clinton stood by their men.
If I asked you to think of Jerry Springer and politics, you might recall that he was mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio. But, if any of that is all you know about Springer, you're missing out.
If only Monica Lewinsky had made a name for herself a few years earlier, I could have had the perfect role model. After all, Monica and I are the same age, attended good colleges, have loving parents.
Okay. Ladies and Gentlemen of the media, please! Enough with this David Letterman hoopla already! You know something? I DON'T CARE! I don't. In fac...
if I were running for governor of the largest state in the land, I would think twice before identifying Sonny Bono as my role model. That's what Republican former eBay CEO and Meg Whitman's campaign has done.
David Letterman successfully navigated his way through three explosive crises -- personal, professional and legal -- by simply telling the truth.
Sociologists tell us that deviance plays a positive role for society. Deviance shows us what happens with you cross certain boundaries - as well as what and where those boundaries are.
An unlikely alliance of trial lawyers and Christian fundamentalists continues to defend the prerogative of jilted spouse to turn love triangles into quadrangles--with the state judicial system as a fourth wheel.
Bachmann says health care reform will mean a teenager can take a few hours off from school to get an abortion "and go home on the school bus that night." Please, if there's anything approximating a God, Palin/Bachmann in 2012.
The truth is that most women who marry powerful men find it easier to accept serial cheaters vs. having them involved with one special person. But Elizabeth Edwards reportedly feels differently.
Barack Obama is an uplifting but, so far, ultimately boring story. The greatest political saga, the one that has it all, that gets to the real heart...
This was not a good week for public figures with notable heads of hair. The boyishly coiffed Tom DeLay caused jaws to drop all across America with his rump-shaking cha-cha to "Wild Thing" on Dancing With the Stars. Breck Girl-turned-Cad John Edwards saw his already-tarnished reputation further sullied by the release of details of his affair with Rielle Hunter, including a promised post-Elizabeth rooftop wedding featuring the Dave Matthews Band. And the idiosyncratically maned Donald Trump made headlines by allowing Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi to pitch a tent on his Bedford, New York estate. But it was follicly-challenged columnist David Broder who took the prize for the week's most ludicrous act: criticizing President Obama for "his determination to rely on rational analysis, rather than narrow decisions." God forbid. It was enough to make your hair stand on end.
In what amounts to a complete about-face, former presidential candidate John Edwards is about to admit that he is a total douche, aides to Mr. Edwards confirm.
