Terry Jones was a teddy bear. He was also one of the founders in 1969 of Monty Python, the comedy troupe of high-functioning, hugely ambitious creative types that also included Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle and Michael Palin. But amon…
For a notoriously private man, Jeff Bezos has one heck of a knack for turning his personal life into global headlines. The latest development in the ongoing soap opera of the worlds richest man is his allegation that his phone was hacked and all its data exf…
Prince Harry and Meghan had hoped to escape the worst of the media attention that so troubles them the”powerful forces,” as Harry called them but still play a part in the official duties of the royal family. But under the agreement they reached with Buckingha…
There’s been a lot of talk about President Donald Trump’s choice of Alan Dershowitz and Ken Starr as lawyers participating in his Senate impeachment trial defense. Most of this has rightly focused on the arguments both men presented at President Bill Clinton’…
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., may have successfully corralled his Republican colleagues Tuesday to defeat 11 efforts by Senate Democrats to subpoena key Trump administration witnesses and documents (and modify other rules) in the Senate impea…
The National Baseball Hall of Fame announced Tuesday that two players had made it into the 2020 player induction class. The first, outfielder Larry Walker, managed to make it on his 10th appearance on the ballot, his last year of eligibility. He learned about…
15 years ago today, a magical merger took place which, with the wisdom of hindsight, helps explain much of our current cultural moment in 2020. It was the wedding of Melania Knauss and Donald j. Trump. In front of family, friends, 10,000 flowers and some of t…
On Monday, Prince Harry arrived on Vancouver Island where he reunited with his wife, Meghan, and their son, Archie. The announcement by the couple earlier this month that they intend on staying for a prolonged period in Canada to raise their infant son has ca…
Imagine an alternate timeline in which House Democrats declined to pass articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump on Dec. 18, 2019. In that universe, the last four weeks would have been most eventful. It would have been a month that saw the rele…
I spent last Saturday night quietly weeping in bed at 1 a.m. over a man. While I dont know this man personally, here is what I do know: His name is Jeremiah Jerry Harris, he has nearly 300,000 Instagram followers and I must protect him at all costs. Jerry al…
The media landscape in 2020 is radically different than even the vitriolic (and sometimes physically dangerous) climate that enveloped the 2016 election. Still, many newspaper editorial boards are going about business as usual by issuing formal endorsements o…
Julián Castro wasnt my first choice for president this year. So I was surprised when I found myself on the verge of tears watching the video of him announcing he was dropping out of the campaign earlier this month and the extent to which his endorsement of De…