Although I agree that the families of political candidates should be off-limits to questions, the announcement that Sarah Palin's unmarried teenage daughter is pregnant raises a question that bears directly on Palin's qualifications for the V.P. job: given that abstinence-only sex education obviously failed to prevent Palin's daughter from getting…
Did you notice how eagerly the McCain camp scaled back the Republican National Convention on account of Hurricane Gustav? And did you notice how quickly Bush and Cheney backed out of their scheduled attendance? Even after the hurricane was downgraded from Class 4 to Class 2, and then to a…
I was at the Japanese Festival at the Missouri Botanical Garden on Labor Day. What did I see there, besides plenty of Japanesery? (Or is it Nipponica?) Sex. Well, okay. Tropical plants flagrantly (fragrantly?) spreading their petals and waiting brightly for consummation may not be so scandalous. But look to…
Andrew Sullivan concludes that the choice of Palin should focus us sharply on McCain's poor judgment: To my mind, this pick is not about Palin's unreadiness to be president. It's about McCain's unreadiness to be president. This act of judgment - a blend of ignorance, gut, cynicism, and pure egotism…
Michael Moore has written a letter to God. Here's how it starts: The other night, James Dobson's organization asked all believers to pray for a storm on Thursday night so that the Obama acceptance speech outdoors in Denver would have to be canceled. I see that You have answered Dr.…