Innocents and Accidents, Hints and Allegations

So last night, given my son's sudden interest in the Halloween Dance at his school, I found myself with a couple of hours to kill. So my...

"I heard this just in passing this week, but 
unemployment in Flint, Michigan has edged over 30 percent, and Detroit 
seems to be comi...

The Beatitudes Lk. 6.20-23 3 ¶ "Blessed  are  the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 4 ¶ Blessed  are...

The Phil Nugent Experience: Suck It Up Phil Nugent on Hoover, Bush, Obama, Roosevelt, Clinton, and how far we allow our fellow citizens t...

"Can you make the choice that your happiness can come from someone else's success?" -Bill Walton I just finished Bill Simm...

I haven't been blogging much lately, to your everlasting joy, I'm sure, mostly because I'm neck deep in Bill Simmons' "...

ESPN's documentary series, "30 for 30", continued tonight with Albert Mayles' "Muhammad and Larry", about the 19...

Scott Adams, the creator of the cartoon Dilbert is smarter than me, almost certainly richer than me and definitely happier than me. Other t...

I finished the Klosterman book-greedily, almost thirstily polishing it off this morning. It was wonderful, of course-thought provoking and d...

Klosterman also writes about sports a lot, which is one of the reason why Bill Simmons has him on the BS Report often. CK, from his new bo...

More Klostermanic goodness from Chuck Klosterman's new book, "Eating the Dinosaur": "Here's a question I like to as...

Chuck Klosterman's new book is out, and I spent most of my birthday money on it today. (The rest of it is for Bill Simmons' "Th...

1. Erin Esurance, mascot for Esurance 2. Aditi Roy, NBC reporter in Philadelphia 3. Flo from Progressive 4. Education...

I cannot recommend strongly enough this week’s “This American Life”-part two of their series on health care. It is informative, and, as the...

From Digg (www.digg.com)-a very cool old cigarette advertisement. I have always loved old ads for some reason. They fascinate me.