God bless wireless Internet connections. Because I need to vent to somebody about my current predicament as I wait for my connecting flight out of George Bush Intercontinental Airport, and -- since all of the somebodies in my immediate vicinity seem to be wearing gator-skin boots and/or “United We Stand”...

Ok, picture this: a bunch of immigrant workers congregate to attend a safety training meeting being held by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The room is packed--not only did the fliers advertising the event explain that it was mandatory, but they also promised complimentary doughnuts and coffee.

Now,...

Just when I thought we’d be spared any more jokes about Martha Stewart making festive, quick-burning Yule logs out of freshly-shredded financial documents or gluing periwinkle seashells to her electronic ankle bracelet, I saw yesterday’s Huff Post headline--“Brace Yourself for Martha-Mania”--and sighed a big ole sigh.

On the...

Members of Congress, beware: a vote against CAFTA is a vote for Osama. Or so Donald Rumsfeld might have you believe, if you read his recent op-ed in the Miami Herald in which he ominously warns, “The coming vote on CAFTA is a national security vote. Let there...

I arrived home from a week in Caracas, Venezuela just in time to catch the latest episode of the Manifest Destiny Variety Show, starring George “The Liberator” Bush and his much-anticipated plans for renewal in Iraq. And let me tell you, it was a mammoth relief to sit...

Have you heard the buzz from the Heart of Dixie? According to Bitch Magazine, "You can carry a gun in Alabama, but don’t get caught trying to buy a Silver Bullet vibrator: the eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals just upheld the state’s law against selling sex toys."...