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I'm a pregnancy cliché, much of the time. Weepy one moment (hello, Obama-mercial), enraged the next (did you forget to buy milk!?). Most of the time I can ignore the emotional lability or laugh about it. But sometimes that righteous ire is for good reason. The obscene amount of unsolicited advice one receives, for example—all aimed ...

Like Meghan, I too loved the aesthetic of the infomercial. It had all of the Horatio Alger glory of an NBC Olympic-hopeful hagiography, spliced with the better cinematography of great Hollywood. You know in those movies the good guys always win, and yet I cry every time. Beyond family values, Obama underscored again what's been his hallmark ...

I'm sure you all have seen this clip by now, of Barbara West, anchor at WFTV, Orlando, Fla., interviewing Joe Biden late last week.  The whole interview is contentious but at 2:36 min she presents Biden with Karl Marx: WEST: You may recognize this famous quote: ''From each according to his abilities to each according to his needs.'' That's ...

I'm glad Ann brought up this piece by Elaine Lafferty. Her go-go enthusiasm for Palin is deeply peculiar and, I think, speaks to some deep tensions present in the women's movement—old guard vs. new, third wave vs. second wave—and some of the concerns feminists of all kinds had when it became clear Hillary Clinton's campaign wasn't ...

I admit that lately I've been thinking more about clothes (and their symbolism) than issues, but in today's New York Times longtime religion reporter Laurie Goodstein writes about the various religious leaders descending on California in support of Proposition 8, a measure that would change the California Constitution to state ''only marriage ...