Somedays it clicks. Somedays it clunks.

John Updike is one of our most amazing writers. His new paperback, Terrorist , includes this brilliant little riff from one of the characte...

Globalization is a reality that activists on the right and left deny. Globalization deniers on the left fear shadowy groups of corporate eli...

Organizational Goals are Meaningless Goals I've become an officer for a local Toastmaster's club and we officers are supposed to art...

It's official: I have idearrhea - a compulsion to generate and share ideas. This is my 400th post to a blog started 300-some days ago. F...

The problem with the moderates is that they are just too moderate. Extremists seem emboldened to start wars, slash or jack up government spe...

Yesterday, Blair stepped down as Prime Minister of Britain and promptly accepted a role as envoy to the Middle East. [Full story here .] ...

"Parental involvement means not only a preparatory effort to help our parents get up to snuff, but also to make sure that we do everyth...

In spite of a brief interruption by an announcer, this should give folks a sense that Van Morrison is so much more than "Brown Eyed Gir...

Ross Douthat writes in the latest issue of The Atlantic Nothing divides the United States from Europe like religion. America has its public...

Concision has won. If you are not concise, you can't be heard. There are 6 billion people on this planet and you can't expect to hol...

Bernard is a kvetch. Listen to him long enough and you realize why his ex-wife once told someone at a party that he was "an insecuritie...

Jeff Jarvis writes I just saw a Piper Jaffray PowerPoint (sorry, I lost the link) that said that time spent on "user-generated content...

Bernard was complaining about his wife the other day. "She's a bulimic shopper," Bernard said. "On Friday she'll spen...

I had a flight of about four hours Friday night, and ended up next to a guy who couldn't stop talking. I enjoy a conversation and music ...

A number of articles and opinion pieces are making a big deal out of the fact that Congress's approval rating is at an all-time low, acc...

This week I'm in a little burg outside of Indianapolis. When we first pulled off Hwy. 70 and came to the motel, I was very unimpressed. ...

George Bush is set to veto his third bit of legislation in six years. For a second time, he's opposing stem cell research. At the point ...

“Infinite nuances are needed if justice is to be done to individual human beings.” - Carl Jung Transformation has historically been worked o...

I've written frequently in this blog about the importance of what I'd call "soft technology." That is, the changes in soci...