Innocents and Accidents, Hints and Allegations

Tim Wakefield, clearly not ready for combat, was cuffed around a bit early in the game, while his mates were being mystified by Chicago'...

A track from the rapper Paris, using the words of Reverend Jeremiah Wright against a musical backdrop. Hard to listen to, hard to swallo...

Paul Byrd, all is not forgiven. The Chicago White Sox beat Paul Byrd like he stole something, rapping the right hander for 7 runs and ten ...

Recently read: "I'm Dying Up Here" , a book about the Comedy Store in LA and early moments from the careers of Jay Leno, David...

Paul Krugman suggests we're not living in the End Times. So there's that.

A nugget from my friends at Statcounter.com: On Tuesday, I got 70 page views, a high for the week. It appeared to have something to do wit...

If you go here, and click on both "ESPN Fantasy Focus: Baseball" and "ESPN Football Today", and listen to the programs ...

Boston gave some lumps to phenom lefty David Price, who has been less than world beating in his first full MLB season for Tampa, and then th...

Commander Kick Ass did not, suffering through another tough day at the office, surrendering two long balls on the way to a 5-1 deficit. The ...

This is from Randy Cohen's blog, "The Moral of The Story". Randy is "The Ethicist", the ethics columnist for the Ne...

“Mourning is just extended self-pity. In New Guinea, Pygmies grind up their ancestors and drink the powder in a beer.” (h/t unlikelywords...

With time growing short on the 2009 baseball season, Boston pulled into Tampa Bay to try and take out the Tampa Bay Naughty Fish, thus clari...

Harwood, Seth. "Jack Wakes Up". Random House: New York, 2008. Wow. Harwood's Jack Palms is an out of work actor, out of re...

Through the 21st century miracle that is Twitter, Grammar Girl, aka Mignon Fogarty , connected me with Seth Harwood , an author who sent me ...

Dave Winer, programmer and inventor of RSS, with the simplest, clearest health care description I've ever seen.