So, this is hardly a surprise. In this economy, everybody's trying to keep their jobs. Even guys like Parker Griffith.

POLITICO has learned that Rep. Parker Griffith, a freshman Democrat from Alabama, will announce today that he's switching parties to...

With a lot of fanfare, but very little reason for it, it looks like Obama is going to get his top domestic policy accomplished this year. Health care for most. And since I can't really put things in sarcastic finger quotes here, I'll just say it like this: "Huzzah."

I was driving back from work Friday night -- 10:00 or so, I guess -- when I looked to see an older gentleman with the interior light of his car on, plunking away at his cell phone, desperately trying to send a text as he drove.

I slowed down and...

Ever since the idiocy of “Balloon Boy,” I have been pining for the moment where fame-whores finally cross a line, and face serious repercussions for their stupidity.

Maybe here.  Maybe this.

AP - Tareq and Michaele Salahi, the couple who crashed the White...

It was a little more than a year ago that John McCain introduced Sarah Palin to us, the final nail in the coffin of his presidential campaign.

As comedians, and humorists, let us take a moment and be thankful - for all she has given us in the past, and...

I've been struggling with the idea of "balance" in news.  There is fact, and there is spin.  There is truth, and there is fiction.  But when the mainstream media covers something - showing both sides, paints the picture that everything is 50/50 when there are certain things that are not -...

So, Sarah's apparently not happy about this week's cover of Newsweek.  From her facebook page...

"The choice of photo for the cover of this week's...

In the latest skirmish in his war with TLC, Jon Gosselin has filed a $5 million claim against the network, saying its representatives damaged his reputation and career by preventing him from working with other media outlets. 

In the suit, the reality...

The Mormon Church blinks.

SALT LAKE CITY — The Mormon church for the first time has announced its support of gay rights legislation, an endorsement that helped gain unanimous approval for Salt Lake city...

It seems to me that Carrie Prejean is still living in a world where her looks are powerful enough to help her dodge real questions and be treated like a real pundit.  No disrespect meant, my dimwitted stereotype of a blonde, but your days of manipulating men to do what...

So, Carrie Prejean is having a bit of week, isn't she?

I mean, one week you're the darling of the conservative movement, and the next thing you know, you're being called a hypocrite as your image as a high-falutin' blonde ball of judgment stops meshing with the low-falutin'...

Hi.  Welcome to my first blog on HuffPost.  

Me?  I started as a journalist, morphed into a stand up comedian with a right-wing POV, and then - when my politics changed in 2005 - took a long (and currently continuing) break from comedy.  (There's a bio in here for...