This weekend, millions of teenage girls across this great land will flock to movie theaters to swoon over the suddenly famous Robert Pattinson, who stars as a vampire with brooding good looks, a permanently tilted head and well-gelled hair in the much-anticipated "Twilight."

The New York Daily News headline: With superfan Barack Obama leading cheers, White Sox now America's team

Reader Nick Valenzio of Palm Springs, Calif., wonders if "the California wildfires might just be God showing his displeasure at the outcome of Proposition 8?"

Giving the governor of Illinois the absolute authority to select the next U.S. senator from our state is only slightly more logical than granting the mayor of Chicago the power to make the first-round draft selection for the Bears.

Just after the election last week, as the market continued to wobble like Ari Gold on mushrooms in the desert, I received a number of e-mails like this:

On my way home from Grant Park late Tuesday night, I passed a long line of hopefuls waiting to get into a nightclub on Erie Street in River North.

Victory! I always said it would be a 70-degree day in November before America would elect a minority president.

Welcome to history. By tomorrow morning, we'll have either the first black president or the first female vice president in American history.

If you believe Sarah Palin is equipped for the national stage, let's talk about fruit flies and the First Amendment.

One week before the first Tuesday in November, I walked over to my local polling place to cast an early ballot.

One year after Stacy Peterson disappeared, Drew Peterson was back in the "Today" studios with Matt Lauer, saying he still believed Stacy has run off with some guy.

Late last Sunday night, I was walking through the main casino floor at the renovated Horseshoe in Hammond, on my way to the poker room to find a buddy.

When Jennifer Hudson won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 2007, she devoted most of her acceptance speech to her family.