The new Chris Rock special “Kill the Messenger” premiered this weekend, and the timing couldn’t be better. While it was somewhat weird for me that producers spliced clips together from three different shows — New York, London and Johannesburg — and the transitions were far from seamless, this special was vintage Chris Rock. […]

In an appearance Saturday night in Wolf Blitzer’s Situation Room, Charles Barkley reminded me why I love him so much. Never reluctant to speak his mind and never afraid to spark controversy, Charles seems, like most of us, utterly fed up with the Bush administration. He says the word “conservative” makes him sick […]

The second and hopefully last beauty pageant-related story of the week deals with 22-year-old Tsering Chungtak, Miss Tibet in the 2007 International Miss Tourism pageant in Malaysia. After participating in the preliminary events this week, Chungtak was forced to drop out of the competition Wednesday for refusing to add “China” to her title of […]

A mentally-ill New Hampshire man walked into Hillary Clinton’s Rochester, New Hampshire headquarters Friday claiming to have explosives strapped to his chest and demanded to speak to Senator Clinton. However, Clinton was in Washington and the “explosives” turned out to be highway flares. But that didn’t stop 47-year-old Leeland Eisenberg from orchestrating a […]

Officially, China has called its refusal to allow a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier to dock in Hong Kong over last week’s Thanksgiving holiday a big, terrible “misunderstanding.” Chinese foreign minister Yang Jiechi characterized the event as such during a closed-door meeting with George Bush on Wednesday, according to reports. Thursday, a tabloid published […]

Thursday, Stephen Colbert, the host of Comedy Central’s satirical news show “The Colbert Report,” learned that his native state of South Carolina had denied his application to appear on the state’s primary ballot as a candidate for President of the United States. Colbert, who officially announced his candidacy on his own show on October […]

The only, and I mean only, slightly pleasurable part of the wildfire disaster that has now destroyed almost 500,000 acres in Southern California is watching Arnold Schwarzenegger flip on the Terminator switch and take matters into his own hands. People like me, who do not reside in California and thus do not rely on […]

Bobby Jindal, the 36-year-old son of Punjabi immigrants, was elected governor of Louisiana Saturday becoming America’s first Indian-American governor. The conservative Jindal received 53% of the vote and when sworn in to office in January, will take the reigns of a state still devastated from Hurricane Katrina two years ago. Despite the fact […]