There are few stories I care less about than whether an elected politician has had an affair. Top of the reasons is that it's none of my business. Mind you, I don't like it. But it's still none of my business.

I know that some like to claim that...

It keeps getting more clear why there are no Republicans from New England in the House of Representatives.

Last week, a news story reported how the Republican Women of Anne Arundel County in Maryland had posted a commentary on their website that compared Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler.

(It said...

"Now is not the time for the president to dig in to a neutral posture," Paul Wolfowitz wrote last week in the Washington Post. "It is time to change course."

Oh, swell. Now he wants to change course.

Mind you, as an architect of the Iraq War, it's not like...

'Tis the season. A time of tradition, a time of s'mores. A time for families to gather round the campfire, as visions of sugar peas dance o'er your head. Toast your marshmallows, roast your weenies, wassail the seas, and go from door to door in hearty fellowship and revelry, singing...

Several years back, an article in the Los Angeles Times dealt with Hollywood closing its doors to writers over the age of 40. In it, a producer was quoted as saying that he could hire two 25-year old writers for what it would cost him to hire one Alvin Sargent....

The popularity of handheld devices has grown over the years like proverbial weeds. In large part, it's their simplicity. Hook your device to a synchronizing cord, press a button, and that's it, as all your information is transferred from your Personal Information Manger into the handheld you use.

This...

This didn't just happen over night. It didn't even happen during the shameless campaign. It began afterwards, with the Fox TV interview that Bristol Palin gave with her baby, as Sarah Palin hovered behind. It grew when the unwed mother claimed to be a spokesperson for abstinence. (A message her...

There was a news story last week that got a little attention - not a whole lot, mind you, but there were a few mentions. "On the question of whether or not Iraq was involved in 9-11," former vice president Dick Cheney told Fox News, "there was never any evidence...

A few weeks ago, I made mention of how in 1964, Lyndon Johnson defeated Republican Barry Goldwater in a landslide defeat, so crushing that articles questioned if this meant the death of the Republican Party. Yet only four years later, the GOP captured the White House with Richard Nixon, who...

I've officially retired from listening to the debate on Sonia Sotomayor. I have my limits. It's not that I can't take the lunacy. If this was merely lunacy, I'd be fine with it. But as a friend of mine described it, this is hysteria. This has reached the depth of...

What can I say, I'm glad that Dick Cheney is attacking Barack Obama. And I hope he keeps it up. You go, Dick.

Though I hear liberal commentators - and even some conservative ones - criticize the former Republican Vice President, I am not among them. All I need to...

As difficult as it is for a professional sports team to win back-to-back championships, it's even more challenging in college. Don't even begin thinking about "dynasties."

In college, even if you put together as great a team as can be imagined, your players will graduate every years. Worse, today, teams...

Who knew? With the Republican Party facing its bottom dropping out as only 21 percent of Americans identify themselves as Republicans - as Republican senators bail on the party - as the GOP has lost the last two elections - as their party chairman insists the GOP will bring new...

So, how many of you out there have old VHS tape just sitting on a shelf gathering dust? Movies you once taped off television. Favorite episodes of series - perhaps even a full collection when you taped them every night or when a cable network ran a marathon. Or family...

The word "legendary" can be overused. But sometimes, it actually does apply. In the case of Gus Kahn, he was simply a legendary songwriter in every sense of the word. And his wife Grace was a wonderful and successful musical composer in her own right.

How legendary?

Among countless...

Several weeks back, I was talking with a friend who is politically conservative. I praised a recent Obama bill for remarkably getting bi-partisan support, when he cut me off. "Oh, you mean those two women?" he interrupted, with ridicule dripping from his voice. "They're not Republicans. They're Democrats!"

(A quick...

Last week, the Republican National Committee released an irreverent video satirizing the president. It ridiculed him for reading his speeches. And once knowing Professor William Ayers. Shaking hands with political leaders. Ending torture. Breathtaking knee-slappers like that.

After receiving much derision, the RNC insisted that this version wasn't supposed to...

Years back, I worked in movie publicity for about 15 years. Five of those were at Universal Studios, the other decade was freelance on individual movies. In all those years, only two people ever wrote me a thank you note when I did a favor for them. To be clear,...

In an interview with Christianity Today magazine, popular Republican spokesman Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher (better known by his beloved cartoon name, 'Joe the Plumber') was discussing homosexuals, or as he deftly put it, "queers," and explained that "I wouldn't have them anywhere near my children."

Finally, I can empathize with him...

We keep hearing it.

"Ever since 9/11, George Bush kept us safe."

It's sort of non-stop, whether from Dick Cheney rising from his dark hole to justify the torture he oversaw, or Republicans in Congress, or GOP pundits, it's always the same.

"Ever since 9/11, George Bush kept us safe,"...