Republicans needn't trouble themselves to nominate a presidential candidate in 2012. No matter what, President Barack Obama will run against George W. Bush. Bush will be Obama's eternal foil. At this rate, when Obama writes his post-presidential memoir, it will be titled "An Audacious Presidency, or How I Saved America From That Bastard Bush." ...more

October 24, 2009

Summer Reading... ...more

July 24, 2009

Tim Donaghy, the former NBA referee convicted of gambling on professional basketball games — including ones in which he officiated — will complete his prison sentence at a Tampa halfway house, according to a prisoners' advocacy group. ...more

June 10, 2009

The election of a new president always gets the connection game rolling. ...more

March 28, 2009

First lady Laura Bush has agreed to write a memoir with one of the world's oldest publishing houses, Scribner. Publication for the book, currently untitled, is scheduled for 2010. ...more

January 5, 2009

Nicotine called. In 2005, while at the hospital where her husband, Bill, lay in a coma in the intensive care unit from a ruptured brain aneurysm, Valerie Anne Faulkner finally found a place in the hospital where smoking was allowed. ...more

December 27, 2008

Joilee Hazley wondered what all the people were doing in her front yard. ...more

December 8, 2008

Nicotine called. In 2005, while at the hospital where her husband Bill lay in a coma in the intensive care unit from a ruptured brain aneurysm, Valerie Anne Faulkner finally found a place in the hospital where smoking was allowed. ...more

December 3, 2008

"The Elfish Gene: Dungeons, Dragons and Growing Up Strange," by Mark Borrowcliffe (Soho Press, $25) ...more

November 9, 2008

The LifeBio memoir-writing class at Sun Towers Retirement Community will graduate another 10 students Monday. ...more

November 5, 2008