Petraeus has been confirmed as the war commander for the mission in Afghanistan. Poor guy. From the outset we've confused war, occupatio...

Sadly, the movie Mindwalk, based on Fritjof Capra's writing, is not yet available on DVD. Here are some excerpts that you could watch if...

I think that I'm just going to wait another decade for the Dick Tracy watch.

“What is possible is not independent of what we believe to be possible. “ - Neil MacCormick “If I were to wish for anything, I should not wi...

I guess that's news. You know, that McChrystal left the White House after his meeting. But still, I can't help but think it'd be...

Here is a curious little chart I created to compare stock market performance by party between the time that Teddy Roosevelt took office and ...

to be nobody but yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battl...

Alternative captions: What Santa's elves do on their summer vacation. Godzilla was seen making the exact same moves just before he attac...

Regular readers know that I'm stupidly optimistic about the future but still have bouts of frustration when it appears that so few voter...

Economic development sounds like such a dry and abstract topic. That’s unfortunate. Economic development can mean the difference between a m...

Gold is a lousy investment. Oh, I know it has gone up lots of late - outperforming real estate and stocks by a wide margin. But it is a lous...

Excerpts from the Atlantic, The End of Men by Hanna Rosin .. Earlier this year, women became the majority of the workforce for the first tim...

If I ever hire a PR firm, I want to hire whoever has been in charge of improving vampires' public image in recent decades.

The child who grows up without the laws, education, or health care is not free: he's been abandoned. There is a difference. I demonstrat...

I think it is time to take the advice of Sarah Palin and so many others and make the 10 commandments the law of our land. For those of you ...

Am I the only who suspects that the Roman Catholic Church would - in a heart beat - seize control of governments again if they thought they ...

Intriguingly, some research into primate behavior suggests that the beta male actually does better than the alpha male. Eager to keep his po...

I watched the final debate between Britain’s current and two contending Prime Ministers this evening. They represented the Conservative Part...

For some reason I find this little tidbit fascinating: if Supreme Court John Paul Stevens is replaced by someone who is not a Protestant, fo...