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  • McCain, Galileo, and the High Price of Getting Off a Good One

    Ellen, that is how I felt after I read an interview with The Sopranos' creator David Chase way back when, explaining that every word out of every character's mouth was a lie. (Up until then, I'd spent the whole hour going, ''Well, that's not true ... and that's not either.'' So with that off my shoulders, well, I was freed up for whole other ...
    Posted to The XX Factor (Weblog) by Melinda Henneberger on February 8, 2008
  • GOP Women Thought Huckabee Won the Night

    Now this is interesting; I see where a focus group of Republican women has declared Mike Huckabee the winner of last night's debate. These undecided, right-leaning women thought Mitt Romney came off as phony, arrogant and ''a snake''—and one woman who described herself as a strong Republican wondered if a guy that rich would really look out for ...
    Posted to The XX Factor (Weblog) by Melinda Henneberger on January 31, 2008