Tonight, my wife and I went out to dinner and found ourselves waiting behind large groups of kids dressed for prom. Watching one large group...

In the old media, people chose between various options, magazines like the Nation or the New Republic, for example. In the new media, people...

Recently, the Wrigley's Chewing Gum company sold for about $23 billion . There is no truth to the rumor that founder Bill Wrigley said, ...

Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan charges that the Bush administration "took a “permanent campaign approach” to govern...

I'll be taking a break from the blog for awhile.

We are gradually choosing a safer world. It is less obvious that this pursuit is making ours a better world. Canadian teenagers are generall...

California's Supreme Court today struck down state law's same-sex marriage ban, finding the state's constitution "properly ...

I suspect that we obsess about sports for at least two reasons. One, during a game is one time where a guy can pull up a chair and ask ...

Colin Powell was once one of the Republican Party's luminaries, one of the country's most respected men. Was, that is, until he was ...

When she was about 2, my precocious daughter was riding with me in the car when she said, "Daddy, sky is blue." "Yep," I...

Already, businesses in Canada are closing – not because they cannot get customers but because they cannot get employees. Meanwhile, the empl...

Kevin told me that this was no way to make a living. I should have believed him, but I was at a loss about what else to do for money. We wer...

Maddie was giggling about something when I sat down. “What’s up?” I asked. “What’s up? It’s just a concept,” replied Bernard. “If we were in...

Time announced the 100 most influential people . Topping the list is Shigeru Miyamoto. Second is Rain. If, like me, you've never heard t...

Sadly, little has changed on Pennsylvania Avenue even though this new month brings the promise of hope-filled procreation. "President B...

"The problem with the parties," Bernard said matter-of-factly, "is that they think that moving left or right is the same thin...

Today we learned that the economy grew at about 0.6% in the first quarter of 2008. About a century ago, policy makers decided that the natio...

Venture capitalists are funding activity again. I've noticed that they still like words like eMail, ePets, and eEeek! (on-line horror) -...

Dee Hock is still oddly unknown. He is the one founding CEO of a company that went on to do more than a trillion (yes, that is with a "...

Howard Dean has announced that the Democratic Party has had enough of democracy and the contest between Clinton and Obama must end by June. ...