I have a new vice - reading the Overhead in ... blogs. Brilliant. It is like found comedy - or is that commentary? Here are some of my favor...

Last night I went to the Lakers home opener against the Houston Rockets. My buddy Daryl's first regular season game as the GM of the Hou...

Friday night, while waiting for the play Oscar and the Pink Lady to begin, I wrote my first play. In its entirety. The Pink Lady was perfo...

Robert Stein writes about Bush's latest domestic policy blunder - proof that the man's wretched foreign policy has little to do wit...

George F. Kennan was one of the most influential policy-makers during the peak of America's influence. A remarkably thoughtful man who w...

What follows are some odd observations about our fires here in San Diego County. Things seem to be gradually returning to normal. Well, as n...

Bernard once again felt obligated to dine with his sister Mattie and to bring me along as a buffer. Bernard intentionally chose a place with...

San Diego County is on fire. Already, officials have evacuated 250,000 people, 5X as many as were evacuated in the 2003 fire that was so bad...

Historians will look back on this 2008 election as the point at which the Republican Party began to fracture. The Republicans inability to g...

A little something for your weekend - a duet between Nick Lowe, who wrote this song, and the Elvis of import, who made it a classic. For ext...

Our attitude towards immigration and trade could cost us our retirement. In a great column on American exceptionalism , Fareed Zakaria expla...

We're getting to the point where there aren't a lot of explanations left. Malice? Stupidity? Conspiracy? Drugs? At this point, the A...

Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul are certainly the most interesting and provocative candidates running for president. I love that Kucinich wants...

Americans aren't satisfied. MSNBC's Bob Sullivan reports that Life is Harder Now . The folks from Gallup report that "just 28% ...

News Flash: "5,000 Birds Seized in Cockfighting Bust Tuesday October 16, 2007 4:16 AM SAN DIEGO (AP) - More than 5,000 roosters, hens a...

Because I'm Bernard's friend, I once again found myself at a restaurant with his sister Mattie. She was raving about the restroom. “...

October 14 is W. Edwards Deming's birthday. Born in 1900, he delivered his last four-day seminar from a wheel chair, within a month of w...

How do we reconcile these two realities that seem to seriously clash? On the one hand, we have the reality of our need for autonomy, intrins...

From The Week magazine: Good week for: The God squad, after the Vatican purchased a controlling interest in Italy’s AC Ancona soccer club a...

We have private property figured out. If you own a farm, you can choose to fertilize or let it sit idle, as you wish. You protect it or inve...