In Dr. Seuss's The Sneetches, there were two kinds of these odd beach-dwelling creatures -- those with stars on their bellies and those without. The ones with the stars saw themselves as inherently superior:

When the Star-Belly Sneetches had frankfurter roasts

Or picnics or parties or marshmallow...

The Clinton campaign has been nothing if not defiantly hip, with a constant stream of cutting-edge, up-to-the-second pop culture references. Here's a sampling from the campaign trail:

"That's not change you can believe in, that's change you can Xerox."
-- Hillary Clinton referencing Barack Obama's alleged plagiarism...

With Mississippi senator Trent Lott resigning five years early to maximize his lobbying potential, it seems like a good time for a look back on his illustrious career.

1) Complete the quote that required Trent Lott to go on a week-long apology spree: "I want to say this...

I am thankful that John Paul Stevens and Ruth Bader Ginsburg continue to draw breath, since the presence of Dianne Feinstein on the Senate Judiciary Committee means that George W. Bush could name Karl Rove to the Supreme Court and the nomination would fail to be killed before reaching the...

With George W. Bush's longtime aide Karen Hughes leaving her position as undersecretary of state without remotely having achieved her mission of improving America's image abroad (and actually, if possible, having made it worse), I thought it was time for a quick refresher.

1) What was the...

The humiliating spectacle of this quivering party, returned to power with the express mandate of stopping this sadistic madman and instead contemptibly giving him whatever he wants, as if he wasn't the most despised man in America, is beyond nauseating. "Poor us, we don't have the votes to stop the...

With the usual gang of shameless Republican hypocrites being joined by the usual gang of spineless Democratic wimps in scolding Rep. Pete Stark for suggesting that George W. Bush's response to the deaths of U.S. troops is "amusement," might I suggest that maybe Stark doesn't really owe anyone an apology?

In the wake of what is merely the latest example of their apparently never-ending caving -- this time on the domestic surveillance bill -- I am looking for a new word to describe the Democrats, as "gutless," "spineless," and "craven" all seem like high praise compared to the way...

Richard Nixon's observation about Fred Thompson being "dumb as hell" is just one of thousands of aspersions cast in the Oval Office and captured on tape. Test your knowledge of Tricky Dick's bountiful Oval Office bile:

1) What did Richard Nixon call his Secretary of the Treasury, George Shultz?

How well were you paying attention to what President Bush said in Pennsylvania this week?

1) Complete George W. Bush's statement: "One way to love your neighbor is _____________"
a) the food bank.
b) to mow his lawn.
c) use the Heimlich maneuver if he or she...

1) For what "embarrassing and regrettable error in judgment" did Dan Rather apologize in 2001?
a) He was captured on a satellite feed obsessing about whether or not he should have washed his hair.
b) He spoke at a Democratic fundraiser in Austin, though he claimed that he...

1) Complete O. J. Simpson's quote in an interview with Esquire: "Let's say I committed the crime. Even if I did do this, it would have to have been because ___________________"
a) I was extremely provoked.
b) I loved her very much.
c) I'm a homicidal psychopath.

1) How did Larry Craig respond to the allegation by a gay man that Craig "cruised" him for half an hour in a Boise REI store in 1994?

a. "What did he say? That I 'cruised' him? What is that, some kind of gay talk?"
b. "I don't...

1) In a 2002 memo, what words did Alberto Gonzales use to describe sections of the Geneva Conventions prohibiting torture?

a) "Cute" and "outdated."
b) "Endearing" and "archaic."
c) "Quaint" and "obsolete."

2) True or false? Four days after Alberto Gonzales gave one of the most disastrous performances...

1) How did Karl Rove and George W. Bush meet?

a) Rove was working as Republican National Committee Chairman George H.W. Bush's assistant and one day his duties involved delivering a set of car keys to his boss's eldest son.
b) Rove was a star player on the Andover baseball...

In response to my post of yesterday, many readers came to the defense of a certain smug self-righteous egomaniac. Let me happily concede several points they made. Yes, in a democracy Ralph Nader had every right to run. And yes, Al Gore was a God-awful candidate who couldn't even...

Surprise! Bush's approval rating is cratering and suddenly administration officials are emitting ominous warnings about the imminence of another 9/11. Knowing these loathesome people as we by now do, can there be any doubt that they would see such an event as their salvation, the thing that would send Bush's...

You will have to search far and wide, long and hard, possibly for the rest of your life, to find a more repugnant performance than Karl Rove's "rap" at the White House Sycophants Dinner last night. Here's the video, look at it before you read...

The truly great, giddiness-inducing thing about the Justice Department scandal (still awaiting its moronically obligatory "gate"-suffixed title) is how it owes its existence to the gratuitous nastiness of these hate-driven punks in the White House.

Gonzales and Co. could have just said, "We're firing these people because we can,"...