Let me paint you a picture: your daughter is playing a contact sport. Say, football or hockey. She’s gone from being your little girl to becoming a beautiful young woman. Opposite her on the field (or ice), is somebody who once was a man, until he decided that he didn’t …

This Sunday marks the biggest night in Hollywood. So why should you care about the 85th annual Academy Awards? Do the Oscars still matter? Did they ever matter? Yes, they matter. Last year, 39.3 million people tuned in to see who looked ravishing in the latest Louis Vuitton gown or …

President Obama recently signed 23 executive orders the White House claims will reduce gun violence. Gun rights advocates claim the White House is trying to illegally skirt the constitution by issuing orders instead of turning to Congress. This is a non-scientific viewer question.

Grassy knoll? More like assy knoll. In her most recent music video, Erykah Badu removes all of her clothes while walking along the path where JFK was shot. It’s like strip poker for Oliver Stone. How daring! How edgy! How flabby. No surprise: The Washington Post describes the video as …

One of the best new TV shows is HBO’s Bored to Death. Jason Schwartzman plays a wannabe private eye with an addiction to white wine. That totally goes against the film noir version of private dicks, who drink gimlets and martinis at every meal and snack. However, just as the …

The news that is not White House approved… Gibbs: Then & Now It appears that White House press secretary Robert Gibbs’ Southern charm has run its course with the press corps (or as the president might say, the “corpse” people). Just 24 hours after his lame attempt at mocking Governor …

Full-body scanners that reveal what’s hidden under your clothing and million-dollar machines that analyze air puffs for traces of explosives are not the first line of defense that keeps terrorists from getting aboard an airplane. The front-line defenders remain the airport screeners — the men and women who guide you …

Mike Allen of the Politico newspaper, one of the best reporters in town, quotes an unnamed senior administration official on the Massachusetts race as follows: “This is not a moment that causes the president or anyone else who works for him to express any doubt. It more reinforces the conviction …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Waste Not Want Not Federal investigators reportedly have received more than 730 allegations of waste and fraud in stimulus act funding so far. The Washington Times reports as much as 60 percent of some agencies’ oversight budgets will go to policing the …

Think you have a food allergy? Your symptoms could be a sign of something else. A study conducted by the U.S. government found that previous data on food allergies is significantly inaccurate, including poorly done studies and high percentages of misdiagnoses. Only about 4 percent of the adult U.S. population …