Who didn’t do regrettable things in the ’90s? Grew a goatee? [Raises hand.] Bought a Limp Bizkit CD? Went on Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher and recalled having “dabbled into witchcraft,” not considering that you might some day run for the U.S. Senate?

This is the pickle Christine O’Donnell finds herself in, after Maher went on his HBO show, Real Time, Friday night, and played the embarrassing clip from a 1999 episode of his ABC show. Afterward, citing exhaustion and schedule conflicts, O’Donnell canceled appearances she had scheduled, in the wake of her upset win in the GOP primary, on two Sunday-morning talk shows.