Joshuah Bearman

“Where are the helicopters?”That was the question on the mind of many conventioneers heading into the 2005 Electronic Entertainment Expo at the L.A. Convention Center last week. E3, as it’s known, is the video game industry’s annual trade show, a digital debutante’s ball where grand announcements are made, and last......

There were two sets of high-fives going around Tuesday, first as the Dodgers came back from 0-6 against the Brewers to win in the 10th, and then when that most elusive of creatures, a Republican conscience, sent the John Bolton hearings into extra innings. Surprising everyone, Senator George V. Voinovich......

Listen: You can already hear the sound of a thousand conservative axes sharpening, and not just in the national forests. We’ve already seen Alberto Gonzales and heard about the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge going on the block, but that’s kid stuff. Starting with Social Security, the conservative movement hopes to......

Grand Theft Auto San Andreas. There may be no more oddly satisfying virtual entertainment than riding a chromed-up hog dead into the sunrise, all the while accompanied by Heart’s "Barracuda" at full volume. Add to that the ability to do so shirtless and well-muscled (or sporting "full gangsta physique," as......

Looks like Karl Rove found his 4 million evangelicals. That was the number of fundamentalist Christians Rove always estimated didn’t show up at the polls in 2000, and it turned out to be Bush’s rough margin in the popular vote. Thus, with a failed war sliding into chaos, and loose......

8:10 a.m. Visited five polling stations, and nothing unusual. We’re bracing for a storm because there’s been so much concern about an organized push by the Republicans to sow chaos in Broward, the Florida county where the most registered Democrats live. But it’s just another sunny Florida morning, with lots......

Photo by AP/WideWorld FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA — This state has long been the new California. Once upon a time, it was our sunny coast that was known as the source of America’s oddities, but that distinction has since decamped, along with the bulk of the country’s crazies, for Florida. If......

AP/WideWorld photos THERE WAS ONE WEEK LEFT before Ohio’s voter-registration deadline and lots of work to do. Stephen Elliott was at the wheel of a rented van, shuttling around the Ohio State campus in Columbus, coordinating the movements of a dozen people. It was the first day of Operation Ohio,......

WHEN BRITISH PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Disraeli first complained about the “three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics,” polls did not yet exist. Disraeli probably couldn’t have imagined how appropriately his aphorism would apply to elections a century later, when the uncertainty of statistics would combine with the fog......

“Frances is gone. And he turned this fucking place upside down. But we’re safe now . . . I think.” This was my mother checking in from Green Acres, where she had hunkered down in her condo through the hurricane. “And you know me — I don’t flinch. But I’ve......