Innocents and Accidents, Hints and Allegations

Dan Carlin hit another home run in this week’s “Common Sense” show. He’s talking about the role of genius in human endeavor, and how desper...

Andrew Sullivan with a quick hit about fiscal responsibility. A note from his reader: "According to the treasury department's B...

There has been a horrible shooting incident at Fort Hood in Texas. There isn't much to say about that, other than I hope and pray that ...

Getting into my car to do something unpleasant and unnecessary, I was in a foul mood. My man Pierre Robert, a DJ on WMMR-FM in Philadelphi...

When FOX starts showing graphics tonight about how Player X is batting .083 in the postseason or something, remember this: Yogi Berra, argua...

President  Harry S Truman, on socialism, March 29, 1952: "The real Republican campaign is not going to be fought on the issues. The ...

I just noticed that the word count went down in my last post. If this continues, I will be writing negative words pretty soon-not only will ...

Just came across an interesting passage in "Inside Larry and Sergey's Brain", a book about the founders of everyone's favo...

So I'm going to do this, too. The rules are even more straightforward-post something every day this month. This, along with NaNoW...

So, it's November. That means it's National Novel Writing Month! (www.nanowrimo.org) Once again, I will be participating in this m...

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...