The whole kerfuffle about Sarah Palin's family has obscured a more important problem: that Gov. Palin is an unrepentant liar. She lied to America in her very first speech to us, when she declared, "I told Congress, 'thanks but no thanks on that bridg...

John McCain, who often invokes his ordeal as a Vietnam war prisoner to show his devotion to his country as he runs for U.S. president, drew on the experience again on Monday — this time to deflect sniping over the number of houses he owns.

Some leading Democrats have been proposing that the Afghanistan war, like Health Care, should be deficit-neutral. The tax applies to all Americans earning $30,000 or more (although there are exemptions for “anyone who has served in Iraq or Afghanistan...

I’m once again buried under deadlines, and expect to be pretty much a non-blogger until sometime in March. The good news is, all this translates (if nothing goes awry) to having a nice, 140-page Hereville volume in bookstores a year from...

Okay, so this may be a cheap shot … wait, no. Strike that. It is a cheap shot, but it’s also awesome. Okay, seriously, Palin is a joke, and her supporters are laughably ignorant. It hardly needs saying, and isn’t some huge revelation. That being...

Via Whatever, I found this piece by Matt Yglesias asking why — if vampires are thousands of years old — they don’t act old: Across various fictions, why don’t vampires exhibit more cranky old man characteristics? I’m only 28 and already I feel...

Edited to add the updates on ABW. Internets? I am so fucking angry right now. Why? I saw this two days ago: Thanks to GM, People Are Being Displaced So Their Forests Can Become Offsets for SUVs. and I'm thinking what the everloving fuck????? Then I...