Michael Brown, the director of FEMA, was nominated by President Bush in 2003 and plans to start the job any day now. ... Prior to heading FEMA, Brown spent the 90's as a commissioner -- this is true -- of the International Arabian Horse Association. I guess he stands out because most Bush appointees are beholden to Arabian people.

Why would these English explorers search for these spices, yet never use them in their food?

We have standards. Anybody with the kind of journalism experience and professionalism that you have displayed over these years can not work for my program.

I think of myself as a comedian who has the pleasure of writing jokes about things that I actually care about, and that's really it. I have great respect for people who are in the front lines and the trenches of trying to enact social change, but I am far lazier than that.

That, what we're really seeing in Iraq is not a terrible war, but in fact, just the media's portrayal of it.

Everything in Italian sounds like 'Give me your money or I'm going to beat your @$$'.

It's a travesty that people have forced someone who is gay to have to make their case that they deserve the same basic rights...