If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or 1960s British comedies to policy minutiae and political arcana. But, like Christians in ancient Rome, you can still spot them if you know the signals.

We are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality.

Pragmatism is the disguise progressive and other ideologues do when they want to demonize competing ideologies.

Republican politics have been off-kilter for several years now because a large segment of the conservative base does not look back fondly on the Bush presidency.

Someone once noted that a 'gaffe' in Washington is when a politician accidentally tells the truth.

Tip to all British tabloids: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone. I repeat: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone.

A rising economic tide is bad for people who live off of the poverty of others.