Sarah Palin lost the election, but for a connoisseur of quotations, she's a winner. The Republican vice presidential candidate and her comedic doppelganger, Tina Fey, took the top two spots in this year's list of most memorable quotes compiled by Fred R. Shapiro. ...more

December 14, 2008

Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Berkeley Breathed is retiring, leaving a hole in Sunday comics pages after nearly 30 years because he wants to save his strip's main character, Opus, from being dragged down in the current political climate. ...more

October 19, 2008

In public, some topics should be off-limits. Sex, for example. Or religion. Or the 2000 NFC Championship game unless you are willing to concede Bert Emanuel caught that ball. ...more

October 13, 2008

The Political Discourse The mental picture of local Republicans, poison pens at the ready, waiting to pounce on Barack Obama's choice for vice president is mildly amusing (Letters, Aug. 26). Obama could have chosen Mother Teresa, and these right-wingers would have said she's a liberal who works with terrorist sympathizers. Such is the political discourse in this country. ...more

September 2, 2008

Call Barack Obama a flip-flopper, an inexperienced senator or even an empty phenomena. Examine his voting record, his speeches and his interviews, and draw your own conclusions. But dipping into his past and painting an outrageous bio of him as a closet Muslim masquerading as a Christian, an unpatriotic American and a radical black with a long drug use - after extrapolating bits of information here and there - is stooping really low. ...more

August 15, 2008

During his days doing stand-up in the 1960s, Bill Cosby recorded a track for one of his comedy albums about the American Revolution. ...more

July 21, 2008