WASHINGTON -- When I read that the Chinese government had hacked into The New York Times computer system, I was frankly amused. Then a few days later, I read that they'd also done it to The Washington Post, which made the whole thing a criminal ...
WASHINGTON -- I'm on the phone with Cindy Adams, octogenarian gossip columnist for the New York Post. Cindy graciously agreed to talk to me to discuss her recent column describing Washington as a filthy-dirty, disreputable city.
Oh, wait. I'm not...
WASHINGTON -- Today I revisit my Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the plight of the beleaguered customer service specialist.
One A Day Vitamins
Me: I have a complaint about your One A Day men's pills. They give me a terrible stomachache every ...
WASHINGTON -- To: The District of Columbia Superior Court
Re: The matter of Wendy Gordon v. MediaBistro.com et al
Please accept this column as my friend-of-the-court brief in the above captioned matter, which involves allegations of libel...
WASHINGTON -- Several months ago, I challenged the widespread assertion that the Internet has ushered in an age of bad writing. Writing is not getting any worse, I said, it is just becoming different, adhering to a new set of laws that I began to ...
WASHINGTON -- Brevity is said to be the soul of wit. Poetry is said to be the language of brevity. Ergo, short jokes told as poems are the language of the halfwit.
Each of my poems below is based on a joke that, in its original form, was fewer ...
