Patrick Gavin

Following the revelations brought forth by the Smoking Gun Web site that author James Frey embellished many details in his memoir, "A Million Little Pieces," Oprah Winfrey - who first made Frey's book an Oprah Book Club Selection (and, therefore, an overnight success) and subsequently defended him on "Larry King...

I recently delivered some remarks on Plamegate at a gathering of the DC chapter of Drinking Liberally (www.dcdl.org), an organization of like-minded liberals who "promote democracy.one pint at a time."

My own take on Plamegate, as I informed the audience, was-and is-that it's one of...

Anyone remember those scenes on MTV’s “Beavis and Butthead” show, where Beavis would either see—or be playing with—some form of fire and he’d inevitably erupt into orgasmic ecstasy, screaming wildly, “Heh, heh, heh, Fire! Fire! Fire!”

Am I dating myself? (Or just revealing that I watched too much MTV as...

Alright Huff’ers:

Guess what’s the biggest news story this week? Plame-gate? Nah. Ethics classes? Nope. VA/NJ Gubenatorial Elections? Think again. Iraq? Sorry.

Wanna know what’s really been on the minds of most Americans?

Cheerleaders.

Seriously.

And, no, not just any ordinary, run-of-the-mill bunch of cheerleaders. I’m talking about Renee...

Here’s the problem with knee-jerk reactions: They’re typically made
by people acting like jerks.

Case(s) in point:

Last Monday, Senator Schumer took to the airwaves to denounce
President Bush’s Miers The Redux–Appeals Court Judge Samuel Alito—as
being "likely to divide America." Of course, it’s...