Women are affected by lunar tides only once a month; men have raging hormones every day.

For two centuries, the South has feared a takeover by blacks or the feds. In Obama, they have both.

Women are affected by lunar tides only once a month; men have raging hormones every day.

Everybody is continuously connected to everybody else on Twitter, on Facebook, on Instagram, on Reddit, e-mailing, texting, faster and faster, with the flood of information jeopardizing meaning. Everybody's talking at once in a hypnotic, hyper din: the cocktail party from hell.

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

Even when conservatives have all the marbles, they still act as if they're under siege. Now that they are under siege, it is no time for them to act as if they're losing their marbles.

I find having a column a very difficult form of journalism. I'm not a natural like Tom Friedman and Anna Quindlen.