The meetings occurred behind closed doors, there are no transcripts, and we'll never know exactly what transpired, but through the art of simple deduction we can logically piece together a likely scenario of Fiat and Chrysler's discussions.

(It helps if you imagine Fiat being played by Marcello Mastroianni, and...

Of all the things that shock and awe me these days - and there are so many - for some reason this little piece of news blew my freakin' mind. In response to the 10 million dollar suit Woody Allen filed against American Apparel for the unauthorized use of...

I've had this tune stuck in my head for two weeks. "Love Take Me Down" is a pitch perfect parody of a Wings song that plays at the end of the movie Role Models. Now, you will swear to yourself it's a Wings tune, but it ain't. The real story...

Somewhere between the stuffing making and the gravy sipping, I'd like to propose we pause and consider our continuing relationship with the Native Americans.

Because centuries after we broke bread on that first day of thanks, and despite all our continual promises to do the right thing, we still, of...

For the past couple of weeks I've been pontificating that Obama would have had trouble winning if he had run against Mitt Romney. Unlike McCain, Romney had serious economic credentials and, as a Washington outsider, he wasn't as tied to Bush's record. The past week, however, has reminded me why...

There's a last minute ripple of inflammatory rhetoric churning round a radio interview Obama gave last winter. As it's currently being spun by the right, Obama supposedly said he "wants to bankrupt the coal industry."

Well, not surprisingly, that's not what he said.

I wouldn't care except that Obama...

When this election is finally over, after I've finished writing my long heartfelt thank you note to Sarah Palin for all she has wrought (Oh my god, thank you Sarah! Thank you! Go ahead, keep the clothes as a consolation prize!) after I'm done rewatching the incomparable genius of Tina...

For months, Obama has been arguing that a McCain presidency would be just a continuation of the failed policies of the Bush administration. Now that sounds pretty bad, but what if it's actually worse than that? It's nearly impossible to imagine, I agree. How could we sink any lower? Well,...

Just after McCain announced that he was putting his campaign on hold due to America's economic crisis, I called my boss and said that -- due to America's economic crisis -- I too would be putting things on hold for a bit. I told him not to expect me in...

I know how she feels. Back in 1989, I lied in Alaska too. A lot.

I got up to Juneau broke and in dire need of a job. I was underage, so I added on a few years onto my resume. Then, just to make sure I was hired, I...

It says a lot that McCain initially wanted either Lieberman or Ridge but - when opposed by the far right- he didn't use his power as the party nominee to force them into line and he didn't look for a reasonable compromise, say someone more acceptable but with similar credentials....

There will be a lot of very expensive hard hitting advertising and a lot of long-winded rhetoric about whether Barack Obama has the "experience" necessary to be president.

Actually, he has plenty of experience, after all, he has just aced the ultimate test for any politician of the 20th...

Watching the convention today, I saw a shrill blonde protester lady with a skull shaped head shrieking about how, when Obama was a young boy living in Indonesia, he went to a Muslim school. Muslim school. Think about it. Sure, this theory has been "debunked" by "experts" like "CNN."...

If I was running and people said I was weak, I would pick the Incredible Hulk. If they said I was stupid, I would pick Stephen Hawking. If they said I was boring, I would, of course, choose Snoop Dogg.

Together, we would offer a whole package, a team people...

Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too. -Greg, age 8

There's a beautiful baseball field in Detroit.

One surrounded by ruins.

Old Tiger Stadium is being torn down. And justifiably so, it's an absolute wreck of a place.

But the field at...

Robert Mugabe and Katherine Harris held a joint press conference Wednesday to announce Congresswoman Harris' new role as Zimbabwe's Secretary of State.

"As you know, we have an election coming up." said President Mugabe, "I need a credible state official to guarantee that our election ultimately reflects the will...

Eliot Asinof swore like a son of a bitch. Any injustice of any size got his blood up. He swore every goddamn morning and every goddamn night. He was articulate and he was funny and boy did he have a mouth on him.

This is a man who was...

In an era of cynics and pessimists and absolute no good liars, we could use every decent soul we can get. Which makes the passing of Bruce "Utah" Phillips an especially sad thing. He was a national treasure, Grammy nominated and a winner of the Folk Alliance's Lifetime Achievement...

Albert Hoffman, the inventor and "father" of L.S.D. died yesterday at the age of 102. Without the invention of his powerfully influential drug, we probably wouldn't have had Hunter S. Thompson or the Grateful Dead, and those planetarium laser shows of the 70's would have been considerably less profitable. Then...

I don't know what Bloomberg's SAT scores were. I'm thinking they were somewhere above 700 verbal, maybe a little better on the math side. I'm thinking Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders of Google, did pretty well too (if I were a gambling man, I would bet Larry did...