Obama's administration faces a problem we've had 8 years to forget about: like many smart policy makers before them, they are at a l...

What if the backstreet boys got back together to lampoon the news in a mock-opera style? Okay, so other than every Sunday morning talk show,...

Everywhere, we learn best from those whom we love." - Goethe Bernard was sipping something. "What are you drinking" I asked. ...

Pragmatism is no longer pragmatic. Generating solutions in a way that depends on focusing on specific problems in a specific context is no l...

"Would you like change?" the waitress asks as she scoops up the small folder with her bill and my payment. And I realize, right th...

In advertising we find the marriage of the most advanced and most ancient technologies: desire for status or sex is married to the latest pr...

You may need to click through on this link as folks (sorry Sandi and Allen) seem to be having trouble with the video as it is embedded.

The Republicans are expressing outrage at Obama's deficits. This is like the runner up in a fart contest calling the winner gross. If th...

I’d been traveling a lot and it’d been too long since I’d lunched with Bernard and Maddie. Maddie came to our table with a hat – a small, fo...

My own theory is that airlines have no serious chance of ending the cycle of bankruptcy as long as flight attendants continue to act surpris...

Given the conservative agenda, they will always see the media as liberal. The problem is, the media doesn’t report what should be but, inste...

My buddy Daryl, who has guest blogged here at R World, is in the news. His Houston Rockets have just forced the Lakers to game 7 of the play...

Just to be clear ... The conservatives' spokesperson for abstinence-only sex education is teen mother Bristol Palin and their spokespers...

From Jonathan Chait's The Big Con: The True Story of How Washington Got Hoodwinked and Hijacked by Crackpot Economics , 2007 The Bush ad...

The Republican Party recently turned to Jeb Bush to help them decipher what they have gotten wrong. It is hard to imagine a move less likely...

"We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help to free the other half." - Emmeline Pankhurst This weeke...

My eldest is about to reach a huge milestone: she's completing her bachelor's degree next month. She's debating about whether to...

Saw this at Thomas's place If you observe a really happy man, you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, ...

I'm flying home yesterday, connecting through Kansas City, MO. A man and woman about my age are sitting next to me, talking for most of ...

There is lots of news and commentary addressing the question of using torture. The typical arguments against it revolve around the notion th...