At the end of the summer I attended a parlor game, a book group, where one of the questions was, "Which novels have you read more than once?" 

It took a while to get to my turn, and while I was listening to the rest of the circle, I spied...

If I were President, I would not be making a speech about jobs.

This is Superman time: Lights, Camera, Shut-up, ACTION.

I'd do something or die trying.

Instead of posing for the camera, I'd raid the piggy banks of the 0.5% -- you know who I'm talkin'...

Many people have written me to ask what I think of Ben Laden's porn stash.

I'll tell you what would be a real surprise:

"NO Porn Found at Scene of Crime! NONE!

"NO Porn found in barracks!

"NO porn found at home of powerful despot!"

Send me...

"At the risk of making a dozen devoted enemies for life, I can only say the the whiffs I get from the ink of [women writers] are fey, old-hat, Quaintsy Goysy, tiny, too dykily psychotic, crippled, creepish, fashionable, frigid, outer-Baroque, maquillé in mannequin's whimsy, or else bright and stillborn."

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Most artists -- including the legendary and influential -- would give their eyeteeth to meet the folks who've taken the time to embrace their work. 

If you knew how easy it is to bring your favorite artist right into your living room, you might get inspired! I'm going to tell...

Op-ed columnist Ross Douthat has written an argument for the NY Times called "Why Monogamy Matters" -- he says that women with minimal or virginal sexual experience are the happiest women in the land. Wheeeee!

Upon the story's publication, pink-cheeked schoolgirls in braids floated across the national horizon, clutching bouquets of...

Hells' Bells! A new app for the iPhone allows sinners to make an instant confession. The *official* Catholic Church asks the hard questions; you spill the beans.

Using the church's traditional "examination of conscience" criteria, here's my confession, the first one I've made in...

My late and legendary "porn boss" is in the news today, as FBI details emerge about the life of Bob Guccione:

"Before he rose to notoriety as the founder of Penthouse magazine, Guccione allegedly wrote letters soliciting customers to buy his dirty photos at the bargain rate of...

Just before the people who tried to kill me picked up their weapon-- (the gun, the knife, the pipe wrench, the suitcase bomb, the broken scissors)-- here's what they yelled at me, their battle cry of elimination:

Ni**er- loving communist c*nt
Fu**ing dyke
Kike whore
Homosexual Harlot

The time has come, the walrus said, to talk of many things: of shoes and ships and sealing wax and... NATIONALIZATION.

That word makes a lot of Joseph McCarthy's children see red -- but it's time to step out of the looking glass and put a little blush in...

How much would you bet that Reverend Ted Haggard falls off the wagon in the very near future?

I'm serious. I know he just got a big check to shut up and leave town,...

What's Better Than A Texas Whuppin'?

Sure, I chuckle along with Tom DeLay's homegrown description of last night's election results... but it gives me pause.

The GOP's agenda has been rejected because Americans want the beatings to stop.

To my mind, it began with the milk cartons-- not the Washington pages.

One day, my breakfast bowl of cereal was no longer accompanied by a back-of-the-box advertisement for secret decoder rings or action-toy figurines.

Instead, the graphic that held my attention was the back of the...

I am having an unexpected reaction to Congressman Foley's sex scandal.

--Not surprised that a gay-bashing, flag-waving, "save-the-children" Republican turns out to be a closeted chicken hawk who harasses cute boy pages in the House of Representatives.

--Not taken aback if the entire House leadership knew about...

Arianna Huffington is one of my most wellknown publishers -- but her original identity is as an author. We saw each other at the BlogHer conference this summer, and I asked if I could interview...

When it comes to fear, perhaps the greatest one of all is the fear of not being able to go on. The fear of living itself. It doesn't make for easy conversation, either.

My friend Kate Bornstein has just written a book called Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives...

Behold the Bible-Strict marriage manual. These earnest Xtian bestsellers instruct newlyweds on how to have hot sex while avoiding all fantasies, masturbation-- and of course, the dreaded sodomy. Oral sex is good-to-go because no one can seem to find a gospel-line against it!

All the world's pushiest religions have...

By now, many of you know that the only celebudick in more trouble than Mel Gibson is Girls Gone Wild fiendmeister, Joe Francis.

The LA Times nailed Francis to the wall for assaulting one of their reporters and repeatedly putting on exhibitions of himself as a sadistic predator...