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So…Monday we started out with such high ambitions.Monday night I threw my back out.Tuesday I spent home, recovering from my back issues.Wednesday I forced myself into work only to find out they’d cut our deadline for calculating payroll by almost two weeks. And the “check engine� light came ...

Ouch! — After promising to “push the reset buttonâ€� on relations with Moscow, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton planned to present Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with a light-hearted gift at their talks last Friday night to symbolize the Obama administration’s desire for a new be...

Oh yeah, we can torture dentists in Federal Prison “hospitals,” pick on people living on top of a hill in Idaho, make Federal cases out of young men who drive past marauding hordes of angry blacks with a noose attacked to his truck, and threaten conservative citizens with civil rights pr...

Maureen Dowd: If only Shakespeare had known how to Twitter. There was a bit of King Lear in the scene on the Senate floor, a stormy, solitary John McCain on “this great stage of fools,� as the Bard wrote, railing against both parties and the president in fiery speeches and rapid-fire tweets. “...

Aside from parenting two occasionally vomiting children and work kicking my ass sideways, I don't know why it's been so long since I checked out my search strings. I'm always amused - and quite often frightened - at the crazy shit people search for that brings them, somehow, to my humble abode on th...

During the presidential campaign Sen. McCain was generally about as exciting to watch as the National Spelling Bee (OK, except for the year that kid passed out). But, being a presidential loser has livened up the senior senator from Arizona. In his most recent foray, Senator McCain savages the bloat...

Hello everyone. Here, on Eren's blog I'm known as S. This is my first guest appearance. I was kidding Eren about being wrapped in a blanket, outside in the snow, taking pictures even before the boys got up. After a bout of bantering Eren dared me to write something on her blog, so I accepted the cha...

David Somers in his Bayonne home before tonight's Jersey Journal Hudson County Spelling Bee, where he placed second. Congratulations to David Somers of Bayonne, an eighth-grader at School 14 who came in second tonight in an exciting, hard-fought Jersey Journal... [...]...

Casting has been announced for the movie version of Damn Yankees, the baseball musical. Jake Gyllenhaal will sing! Also in casting news are Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg, a Woody Allen movie, and Gossip Girl. Jim Carrey will play the Devil who tempts die-hard Washington Senators fan Joe Boyd, who's...