Category: Tuesday

Mark Sanford is back. That’s both the good news and the bad news. South Carolina’s disgraced former Governor just won a congressional seat against no less than Stephen Colbert’s sister. [Sometimes truth is not only stranger than fiction but better than it.] Elizabeth Colbert Busch had the misfortune of running as a Democrat in a…

Last week was the 40th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision that finally made abortions legal in this country, regulating an industry that was killing thousands of women every year in illegal, unsafe back alley abortions. Well…you would think this matter would have been settled by the fact that FORTY years…

Don’t get me wrong, I’m thrilled that the University of Alabama, a.k.a. The Crimson Tide, a.k.a. The House that Bear Bryant built has won another national championship. Well, maybe not thrilled since it’s hard to get too invested one way or the other, but if anyone is going to win I’m glad it’s a team from Alabama….

For those that don’t know, Richard Engle is the chief correspondent for NBC News. He has also been kidnapped roughly…a thousand times. No, I’m not sure about the exact number of times he’s been tied up and thrown in the back of a truck, but it’s happened to him a couple times over his decade…

As I’m sure you know—–or, if you’ve watched any news or been to a news site in the last year—–Hugo Chavez is ailing. He has seemingly serious cancer (we don’t know the exact type and he won’t say how serious it is, nor would he be honest about it if it were terminal), and, in…

By now, you either love/hate/or have never heard of HBO’s Treme, David Simon’s ode to post-Katrina New Orleans the way The Wire was his love-song to Baltimore. People that love the show are probably tired of defending it, and people that have never heard of it would probably hate it. I started off thinking the…

Tonight’s episode of 60 Minutes (hands down the best news magazine on television and arguably the best journalism on broadcast TV) featured a harrowing story of survival for a North Korean political prisoner. He was born, raised, and would have died in Camp 14 (a prison camp that could have more than 15,000 prisoners in…

Now that the Twilight saga is officially over, the inevitable question surfaces of “What film is the best? And which one is the worst?” [And the word “best” is used as a loose translation of “which one won’t have me on suicide watch after thirty minutes?”] This is all largely a matter of personal taste,…

For those that don’t know, Allen West is a congressman from Florida. He’s part of the Tea Party, he’s one of the most aggressively partisan members of the House Republicans, he’s one of only a handful of black Republicans in congress, and he’s a former defense contractor/torturer that makes Herman Cain look like a nice…

As much as people love dissecting the candidates themselves for any little thing, I think it’s just as helpful to grade the moderators. First Debate…Moderated By: Jim Lehrer…What Worked: [Crickets]…What Didn’t: A ton. His performance was widely criticized by almost everyone. And you can’t say it’s just “liberal whining” because Obama lost the debate, conservatives…

That mouthful of a title is just an (to quote Mitt Romney) “inelegant” way of saying that noted gay activist Dan Savage dropped by a Barnes and Noble to promote his new book, and also answer some questions from the audience. Many know Dan from his numerous appearances on Real Time with Bill Maher and…