Too busy writing and working to write a blog post ... so, here's something to prove blog activity - a smattering of the tweets from Augu...

I am a little ticked off. I had a stock taken forcefully from me and I a offended that such a thing is legal. I am convinced that great stoc...

The Hindenburg Omen IS Scary (read here ) I'm sorry. I should take this seriously. My portfolio is again lying on the tracks while a tra...

Today we tried a new place for lunch - CBW. I ordered the fajita bowl and thought that my ordering was done. The following ensued: Cashier: ...

Happy Friday Or ... Litany BY BILLY COLLINS You are the bread and the knife, the crystal goblet and the wine. You are the dew ...

This week, Little Feat drummer Richie Hayward died. There is still, for my dime, no band that better realized the potential of a blues / roc...

The leading Renaissance thinkers were willing to adapt their minds to the facts but weren’t sure how to fully explain them. Although it took...

This is an excerpt of a toast I gave yesterday. (Or, more accurately, what I thought I might have said.) No one likes to admit this - partic...

"Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes." -Walt Whitman Resolution stops th...

"Wisdom begins with a definition of terms." - Socrates Joe Biden got a lot of flack awhile ago for using some coarse language that...

I might have the start of a new rap song: Al Gore got rhythm like an algorithm. The chorus would just have to have a line like, "The ma...

Few people know that the Bible is full of transcription errors. Christians don't believe it and non-Christians don't care, but throu...

The recent World Cup revealed a number of reasons that soccer is unlikely to ever catch on in the US. Perhaps the most obvious reason soccer...

There are only two states of mind that precede learning, and neither is particularly pleasant. Before you learn something, you are either ig...

To find a good reason why the waiter might think it would impress your date to offer her freshly ground pepper from what appears to be a sma...

Europeans discovered America but Americans also discovered Europe, a rarely mentioned story. Pocahontas’s father sent one of his tribe back ...

Tomorrow's world cup final pits Spain against the Netherlands. Institutionalized siestas vs. legalized marijuana, which should make 2010...

I get so many requests for more sports coverage here at R World. I try to be responsive to my reader, so here goes. Business idea: little gr...

The American Revolution didn't just happen once. In fact, it is still happening. In 1689, England's Glorious Revolution shifted auth...

about the PEN conference take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginn...