Innocents and Accidents, Hints and Allegations

My son and I saw Terminator: Salvation today. I wanted to love it-I really, really did. I didn't hate it. Maybe I wasn't in the mood...

It's John Nash's birthday. The subject of the film "A Beautiful Mind", which was somewhat loosely based on the biography o...

(Before the Red Sox recap, the Mets just lost in wholly improbable fashion. Leading the Yankees at US Government Field (I won't call it ...

This is an interesting story. Gary McKinnon, an English hacker, is fighting extradition to the US. In 2002, he hacked into sensitive, suppo...

First, some employment wierdness. On Tuesday, we're told that an important meeting was held, and that we should meet with other members ...

Liveblogging the Apocalypse New York (34-24)@ Boston(34-24) We pick up the action one hour in, in the bottom of the second. Sigh. Chieng Min...

Apropos of nothing... ME: That's why, when you put a cracker in your mouth and leave it there, it will start to taste sweet. HER: Nuh-uh...

I finished Charles Pierce's "Idiot America" today, and it is, as I expected, a tour de force about the death of reason and log...

I went with my son to see "Star Trek" today, thus continuing my unbroken streak of being nearly the last person to do, well, every...

I embedded a link! (See previous post.) That's probably the first line of computer code I've written in maybe 30 years.

http://bit.ly/12Qnw9 Rob Neyer posted on Facebook that, if President Obama has time to read this, so do we. He's right. A well written, ...

Proving Rob Neyer's point, Josh Beckett threw 6 simply awesome innings, allowing only one hit to the men from Gotham. Boston powered its...

http://bit.ly/wWlAO Rob Neyer, who is smarter than me, says that Josh Beckett and Jon Lester have just been unlucky this year-balls have bee...

1. Carson Daly has a television program. 2. Steven Colbert's trip to Iraq that he couldn't tell us about was a trip to Iraq. 3. No m...

This American Life, from WBEZ in Chicago, produced another brilliant program this week called "The Watchmen", investigating, in re...