I was born in New York City, but I was raised in New Jersey, part of the great Jewish emigration of 1963.

Stephen Colbert is also then turned into news.

I have great respect for people who are in the front lines and the trenches of trying to enact social change. I am far lazier than that.

President Bush announced we're going to Mars, which means he's given up on Earth.

Jazz musicians are the coolest people on the planet. Can I have some cool?

Senator John McCain, who spent over five years in a Vietnamese POW camp, publicly releases 1,000 pages of medical records. Now people are left with only open nagging questions: what kind of freak has 1,000 pages of medical records?

If I was to really get at the burr in my saddle, it's not politics - and this is, I think, probably a horrible analogy - but I look at politicians as they are doing what inherently they need to do to retain power. Their job is to consolidate power. When you go to the zoo and you see a monkey throwing poop, you go, 'That's what monkeys do, what are you gonna do?' But what I wish the media would do more frequently is say, 'Bad monkey.'