It takes a lot of adrenaline and fear to make me actually write.

When I need to work up my nerve to write a tough column, I try to think of myself as Emma Peel in a black leather catsuit.

I think Hillary Clinton's a very clever politician but she would be too easy to stereotype the way John Kerry was.

And as far as doing God's work, I think the bankers who took government money and then gave out obscene bonuses are the same self-interested sorts Jesus threw out of the temple.

Afghanistan is more than the 'graveyard of empires.' It's the mother of vicious circles.

It is men's worst fear, personally and professionally, that women will pin the sin on them.

If wit is the most sophisticated form of humor, pranks are the most juvenile.