... is by the invincible Dave Barry, of course, and good for the Washington Post for giving him enough space in the Sunday magazine to write...

Here's one of the things you get when you mix civil society with obsessive and fanatical religiosity: From today's Times: "Un...

Map, via Flightview.com (as of 6.26 p.m. EST), shows lots of yellow lights at major airports. That's not good! Red dots are worse. Loo...

In my 40-plus years in the media business, as I suppose it's now and forever to be called, I have come to certain empirical conclusions,...

Whenever I see that the source of a particular piece of news is the U.K., I slip on my skeptical specs. And here today we see, getting s...

[ UPDATED]  Christmas Day brings more detailed news of still another horrific shooting massacre, this one caused by a lunatic in upstate ...

Carnegie Hall, where people know how to dress for the theater Some people say that New York City is rude, and in fact it's a standi...

The merely vile Rupert Murdoch, who seems to have actually come down on the right side of the out-of-control-guns issue, appears to have ...

Scarlett Johansson In New York for a holiday visit, my wife and I saw the new "Cat On a Hot Tin Roof" last night on Broadway ...

[ UPDATED ] A few thoughts on this catastrophe in Connecticut, as the story and its ramifications are being sorted out. 1. As an old str...

Let us pray? I have never understood why people flock to church in times like this to pray to a deity who by their own estimation and unde...

...Meet Wayne LaPierre, the loud-mouth fanatic who is executive director of the fanatic National Rifle Association (base pay $1 million a...

Child in wheelchair hauled off because some dumb TSA hump decided 1. There was "explosives residue" on the girl's hands and 2....

Just try to get on this beach, buster Seaside Heights: Everybody's welcome Back in the 1990s, I wrote a weekly column called ...

Headline on today's weekly report from the Transportation Security Administration on  weapons found in the last week in passengers...

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer goes to war Jon Stewart had a segment last night called "Please Tell Me This Is Rock Bottom," based o...

"And another thing--" Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has a word with the president  [UPDATED ] Yeah, I  know, you could ask that q...

Media swells being taken for a ride I'm glad to know that United Airlines got its money's worth flying all of those media and t...

...and at least for the ones in the U.S., their vote counts the same as yours. An amusing collection of photos here from Buzzfeed...