Two days after the Oscars, and we’re all still infected with Oscar fever! Or at least we are still running a slight Oscar-related fever. Or at the very least, half-heartedly nursing what’s left of our Oscar hangovers.

Or maybe, in this unending cycle of relentless news coverage, we have already totally forgotten that the Oscars even happened.

If this is the case, well, I’m sorry. I had a dental emergency that left me in an incapacitated narcotic haze for the past two days, unable to eat solid food or even to change out of my To Haiti With Love CFDA T-shirt (which I bought…

So they’re back on HBO, those wacky polygamist Henricksons, along with their equally wacky entourage of chilling-yet-oddly lovable sociopaths in bolo ties and leg-o’-mutton sleeves.(Seriously, anyone trying to make a case for the heritabilityof mental illness needs to look no further than the wilderness loony bin of Juniper Creek, a perfect Dust Bowl storm of nature and nurture.)

I’m not going to bother giving any advice to Bill, the venally earnest…

There are a lot of frustrating things about the American democracy–its relentless focus on cults of personality, its willingness to give a media platform to any know-nothing willing to make an ass out of himself in public.  But probably the most irritating is the sheer disproportionality of representation in our congressional chambers.  Namely, that our elected representatives are allowed to make decisions that effect the entire country without being elected by the entire country.

I’m not sure what to do about this inherent lack of justice in our political system.  At first, I…