Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness.

Digital television, satellite radio, videogames, iPods - so much media. Do books even matter anymore?

It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict.

Homemade sweaters are always itchy.

If there's one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that, right or wrong, they hate the press.

Think of all that hard work our founding fathers put in - the revolutionizing, the three-fifths compromising, having to write the entire Constitution with a quill - and yet they neglected to include the right to vote.

Did I end up finding a little blue pill to cure America's electoral dysfunction? Unfortunately, it's not that simple.