I feel like I just have to comment about today's date. 9/9/9. There. I commented. Somedays I really love not having an editor.

Yesterday, I was listening to live music from various friends and acquaintances, a delightful concert that featured about a dozen acts. So m...

Apparently, writing a blog is like wearing a pocket protector: proof that one has not kept up in reading the memos that inform us about what...

Obama will give a speech 8 September in which he plans to encourage school children to become black socialists. The right is outraged. I won...

One of my most awkward moments teaching seminars came in an event that included a contingent from a chain of pawn shops. The "finance...

Compared to 1945, today's GDP is 65X larger consumer debt is 444X larger the value of mutual funds is 12,400X higher GDP measures income...

If Obama is really serious about stimulating the economy, he'll take a cue from the folks who make network TV and boost his ratings with...

Next time you are at a dinner party, or in a group of people talking politics, try this question: "What do you mean by nation building?...

I love the album on which this song is featured. If Shatner is not some kind of performing genius, he's pulled a wonderful con. And give...

I would like to think that when Bill Gates was deciding what to do with his fortune, in the end his two choices came down to the Bill and Me...

First Michael Jackson and now Teddy Kennedy. Their bodies are on extended tour before interment. I'm not sure whether this is a new tren...

I have an idea for a research grant. Send researchers off to find the one person who changed their political position as the result of an ar...

I'm reading The Devil in the White City - a wonderful book about the 1893 Exposition in Chicago that reads like a murder mystery novel ...

I live in Chula Vista, CA. Because of our local Little League All Star team, more people have now heard of it. (Second biggest city in San D...

Maybe the difference between myth and science is that myth feels right, in spite of the evidence. It falls into the category of something we...

Years back, I remember reading about a couple of sisters who were trying to get their older mother to use the Internet. "It's great...

I recently read more about the new programs inspired by the Cash for Clunkers program, the federal program in which the government buys cars...

This is beautiful. I smiled through the whole thing.

I was at a restaurant the other day that was broadcasting a football game. (It's August. Has football really started already or were the...

"Our beef was raised humanely," is the kind of line you're increasingly likely to read in the finer restaurants. I have to con...