Sean Higgins was not impressed with Bill Maher’s new anti-religion film Religulous, though he does cop to coming “out of the film with a new respect for Mormons, who — apparently alone among the faith groups that Maher sought to…
In the Guardian today, I lament the debate that wasn’t.
That’s my advice for John McCain (though if Barack Obama decided to take it instead, I’d be thrilled) in tonight’s town hall. Normally, McCain kills in this format, but I’ve a feeling things won’t be so easy.
Most of what writers classify as hate mail I would call simply strong disagreements. However, this item, which arrived in my inbox tonight from a writer who was too cowardly to sign his (or her!) name to it, surely counts:…
That’s the strategy Sarah Palin used against Joe Biden last night, or so I argue in the Guardain.
Here’s my brief take on the foreign policy part of the debate in the Washington Post. I conclude: “[Biden] didn’t expect Palin to punch very hard on foreign affairs. What he got was a purse full of quarters aimed right…
In the Washington Post, I have some subtle suggestions for the governor of Alaska.
Today is my thirtieth birthday. Since I was old enough to figure out the birds and the bees and the actuarial tables, I had it in my head that I was a New Year’s baby or a slightly delayed Christmas…
I’ve never dreamt that my teeth fell out but there were two memorable dreams that involved teeth. In the first, I bit the thumb off of a one-fingered bum who was using it to attack me and felt rather bad…
How should we understand the defeat of the bailout package in the House of Representatives Monday? The leaders of both parties wrangled a deal over the weekend and it was expected to win approval. Instead it went down to defeat…