Bernard had been drinking. His eyes were watery and his grin sloppy. He was recovering from Thanksgiving with family. I was his designated d...

So it was hard to feel sorry for the executives when Rep. Peter Roskam (R-Ill.), late in the hearing, reminded them again that "the sym...

At various times, productions that pit great villains against each other emerge to suck money from the pockets of teenage boys. King Kong vs...

"There are," Bernard said, "two kinds of people." "I know. Maddie told me. There are Zambonis and grocery carts....

Citi joins the list of companies too big to fail Over 6' 4" and more than 200 pounds, I've decided that this notion of "to...

We have moved from talk of bailouts to massive economic stimulus packages without any intervening discussion. Somewhere in that transition I...

Yesterday Rick and I were walking the boardwalk at Pacific Beach, talking about the kinds of things we talk about. Much of it fell into the ...

Congress is still waiting for the banks to ignite this economy with the $700 billion they've been offered. Last night, my wife Sandi and...

"Where is Maddie?" I asked Bernard as I sat down. "She's trembling in fear," Bernard said with a roll of his eyes. ...

The dudes at TransWorld Surf named my alma mater the number one surf school in the nation. They say this about the University of California...

It is a testament to Stevens' popularity — he was once named "Alaskan of the Century" — that he won nearly half the votes, eve...

It is time to add some cachet to the cabinet. It could be that celebrity is the last area of competitive advantage for the US and why not ex...

Retail sales plunged by a record amount in October as shoppers reined in spending with home prices falling, although plunging gasoline price...

But what has upset many gay-rights advocates is the extent of the Mormon church's support for Proposition 8, which defines marriage as t...

In a stunning turnabout, the Bush administration Wednesday abandoned the original centerpiece of its $700 billion effort to rescue the finan...

In this country, we have a distrust of experts. I have one theory about why that might be. Systems are defined by interaction. Worse, the in...

Wonderful analysis of Obama's wonderful speech by David Crystal.

McCain's loss was the fifth by a presidential candidate to have the better war record. (Bush 41 lost to Clinton, as did Dole. Gore and K...

Obama's election will likely do for the Rush Limbaugh's and Sean Hannity's of the world what Bush's election did for the Jon...

Every successful candidate allows allows the polity to project upon him as he (or she) nods and smiles. So, to interpret Obama now is as muc...