“I think that woman should be equal with men. I just don’t think that they should have positions of power over men.” - Student in my son’s c...

I was at lunch with Maddie and Bernard when Bernard suggested to Maddie that I might be able to help her with her iPhone. "She's ha...

"Ah, yes. Buckley is a good friend of mine. We often ski together and socialize. I enjoy him. But perhaps the thing I like best about ...

I’m offering a meme that tests the limits of imagination. What would you do with $3 trillion? This is not “take your family to Disneyland” m...

It's Scott's birthday 26 February. (He's the smallest guy in the line, just to my left. He has caught up by now (in height) and ...

After an intense week on site with a client, my brain feels like flan. Cce offered this irresistible meme, a way to rally the brain cells ba...

We're all Keynesians now." - Richard Nixon The Tipping Point for Crisis: When Actors in an Environment Become the Environment When ...

Tonight, for reasons too convoluted to explain, I ended up with three fortune cookies, wondering why every culture doesn’t have the equivale...

Friday, my Valentine took me to CORTEO, Cirque du Soleil's traveling show. The opening line of the show is, "Last night I dreamt ...

Bernard didn’t even pause to sip his coffee. “You thought it was a crisis of meaning," he told me as I was sitting down, not even wasti...

"So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work." - Peter Drucker This morning at breakfast...

We make food producers disclose contents and list nutritional information. Why not do it with pundits? Let's say that Bill Kristol is ea...

I now have a visual presence on the web and I owe it to an unexpected, unsolicited, and extraordinary act of generosity on the part of Gypsy...

I found out that there is something more interesting than dining with Maddie and Bernard: drinking with them. I tried to take notes on cockt...

A beautiful thing happened on the way to the Republican nomination. The loudest voices in the Republican Party of the last couple of decades...

One of the problems with surprise birthday parties is that they are, at some level, not really surprises. After all, the target of the surpr...

From Jeff Lee's blog : A few weeks ago, one of my professors was lecturing about a Latin piece titled, “The Requirement.” After Columbus...

The pundits are speculating about why Romney's bid for the presidency failed. Romney's natural base would have been business conserv...

Last year I traveled as little as I have in years. This year, I'll probably be making trips to Indy two to three times a month through t...

Bernard ordered the salad, something I had never before seen him do. He prefers what he calls real food. "What's up?" I asked....