Stewart Cink was at a birthday party when he learned about Tiger Woods taking an indefinite leave from golf. A friend had the news on his cell phone, and Cink figured a punch line was coming. ...more

December 13, 2009

If we didn't know better, the extravagant (and alarmingly routine) mea culpa episodes conducted by various nominees to top White House jobs would make us think all those bright bananas mistook Steve Martin for H&R Block. ...more

February 4, 2009

Some thought of quitting. Others were brought to tears. A few even stayed in their homes on their days off because they feared public ridicule. ...more

December 31, 2008

Just the other day my mother was robbed in a grocery store parking lot. ...more

December 24, 2008

Earlier this month, a guest took the pulpit at Open Bible Fellowship in Morrison, Ill., a 350-member church surrounded by cornfields. The speaker was an insurance salesman from Colorado named Ted Haggard. ...more

November 23, 2008

Someone is always trying to sell us a line. Whether it's the shrill shilling of a soda commercial, the catchy mantra of the reality TV sidekick, the catchphrase of the latest crop of "Saturday Night Live" players or even the thudding sincerity of the public service announcement, the landscape is littered with sound bites desperate to become the next "Whazzzuuup?" ...more

November 2, 2008

A Light in Financial Gloom: Gas Falls To $3 A Gallon Gut-wrenching declines in the stock market, a financial panic that some have compared to the Great Depression and the realization that the United States may be headed to its worst recession in more than a generation have trumped what should otherwise be good news: The return of $3-a-gallon gas. ...more

October 19, 2008

Al Austin, a high-level Republican fundraiser from Tampa, sent an e-mail to his list of his political contacts Wednesday containing a joke that refers to the assassination of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. ...more

October 16, 2008

It hurt just to watch Dioner Navarro try to play as the regular season wound down for the Rays. He could barely make it down the line on ground balls, and we can only guess at the protest his various body parts raised when he went into another crouch behind home plate. ...more

October 5, 2008

Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin defended her remark that the proximity of Russia to her home state of Alaska gives her foreign policy experience, explaining in a CBS interview airing Thursday that "we have trade missions back and forth." ...more

September 26, 2008