"Must you always be out in that ghastly clown suit, running around annoying people?"

Says Pretty Alice to the Harlequin in Harlan Ellison's "Repent Harlequin!' Said The Ticktockman," which I read on the urgi...

That's a clown suit question, bro.

Did you see the comment by Patrick that Glenn linked to? “I think it would be the ultimate act of honesty to dress the Secretary of the Tr...

Hope and change... into a clown costume.

Paul Krugman responds to the pushback he's received on "the trillion-dollar-coin thing": There seem to be two kinds of objecti...

There's no music in the politics... and no politics in the music.

Ziggy Marley bemoans the separation of politics and music. “In the ’60s and ’70s, there was plenty of music for peaceful revolutions,” Marle...

The clown is not amused.

I love the array of characters in this picture (by me, from yesterday's Tea Party/anti-Tea Party protest). Enlarge . The girl in the Buc...

On "Dancing With the Stars," they really try to get Bristol Palin to smile...

... but even with an ape mask over her head part of the time, we see far too much of the poor girl's sad face: Even when the judges com...

"Keith Olbermann Interviews A 'Clown' And A 'Witch' About Christine O'Donnell."

"The clown and witch were played by comedian Angry Bob and Village Voice columnist Michael Musto, respectively." Visit msnbc.com f...

I cover the clown news.

3 items today: 1. Tiririca — "Grumpy" — the Brazilian clown just got elected federal deputy for Sao Paulo. Ad copy: "What do...

Shed a tear for the clown trapped in the place of no mirth.

The NYT does. Cobwebbed by senseless rituals, speeches which no one listens to and rules that make it all but impossible to act on the will...