In a way Josh Kornbluth’s comic routine, “Andy Warhol: Good for the Jews?,� is an allegory for a museumgoer’s struggle to find meaning....

Sarah Palin is fighting back against the "jerks." Cooking moose chili and slicing sandwiches for Matt Lauer and Greta Van Susteren, chatting up Larry King and Wolf Blitzer, the Alaska governor is denying, deflecting and denouncing the worst her unnamed critics have thrown at her. She has called them...

For days now, television viewers have watched Sarah Palin unable to explain the significance of her home state's bordering Russia, unable to name a Supreme Court ruling she disagrees with, unable to name a single newspaper she reads....

Charlie the Abo says in my live cam chat: "The Times has a piece today on the latest group to take pride in its status in the face of social pariah-hood: the mentally ill.  Mentally ill is the new gay." I’d like to think I’m at the forefront of this new movement. CharlieTh...