Ah, yes...if you have friends, you are a wealthy person indeed. Until the Federal Corruption Task Force comes a-knockin' at your door, and you find out they've all turned into witnesses for the...

I was a kid when President Kennedy gave his stirring speech declaring we would go to the Moon within the decade. My friends and I could recite the names of the Mercury Seven astronauts off the...

"Tone deaf" doesn't begin to describe it. The Masters of the Universe screwed up so badly in their pursuit of lucre that they had to be rescued by the very groundlings they so despise. And what's...

Katherine Harris is surely one of the top five gifts to editorial cartoonists in the last ten years, two of the others being Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin. Any excuse I can come up with to...

While we're all tut-tutting about what a lowlife slimeball Richard Heene is for allegedly concocting a hoax involving his six-year-old son ("Falcon"...it's as though he'd been planning this thing...