Matt Yglesias on Joe Wilson's contribution to last night's festivities... Personally, I sort of liked Rep Joe Wilson's idea of introducing British-style heckling to the halls of congress; totally disrespectful and out of step with Amer...

If you happen to be in Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Fringe Festival, this weekend, you might want to overcome your lifetime aversion to opera long enough to catch The Gonzales Cantata. Yep, that's "Gonzales" as in memory-challenged former...

The country is split over President Obama saying Harvard police acted "stupidly" in arresting Henry Louis Gates, Jr. But is anyone really surprised? It's just like those people, always looking out for their own. I'm talking about Ha...

A lot of hay has been made of Sonia Sotomayor's "wise Latina" line. After all, how can a minority woman understand the life experience and cultural idiosyncrasies of white men that entitle us to everything? But there's more than tha...

On last night's Daily Show, in response to Lindsey Graham using anonymous comments to criticize Sonia Sotomayor, Jon Stewart pulled out some choice anonymous internet comments about Graham himself. But, it should be noted that not all online comm...