I've got a couple of theories about why no Republican front runner lasts for long.  Cain, Perry, Bachmann, Trump, Giuliani, Romney...

How about a virtual Halloween?  Go to a website where you get to see video snippets and still photos of every kind of costume - from cute...

If you want to get to New York, it does little good to reiterate that you should be in New York. The first step is knowing where you are and...

Saint Louis now has 11 world series championships. San Diego still has the same number as when baseball started. Yep. Zero. St. Louis has...

Herman Cain and Ron Paul are not conservatives. They are reactionaries. They do not want to preserver the status quo but instead want to ret...

Once Greece became a part of the euro zone, they were able to borrow money for far less than they had when they had to pay the going rate fo...

I do think that this exchange between Mitt Romney and Rick Perry was my favorite of the night. "Why do you think I have this outrageous...

The debate about abortion is a debate about when life begins. The pope argues that the purpose of sex is for procreation, not pleasure...

The Republicans are like white men dancing. They've no sense of economic rhythm. During the Bush years, Republicans applauded deficit ...

I can't help but wonder if we've gone through three stages in our political conversation. Years ago, in stage one, politicians talke...

In Topeka Kansas, it is now legal to beat your wife. Or, rather, given they haven't the budget to deal with wife beaters, they've si...

Here's a bit of social invention that's worth mentioning. (Thank you @Tisiwoota at Twitter for pointing me to this.) California be...

This has the flavor of an old man's rant, but wasn't there a time when it seemed more obviously the case that the folks in charge ...

It’s worth asking about the difference between nation-building and state-building. 10th anniversary of invasion of Afghanistan and sti...

‎"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big decisions in li...

The original Hawaiian shirt was actually just a tan and a sleeve tattoo. It would probably be helpful if we had at least one growth in...

Studies suggest the biggest difference between men and women when it comes to sex lies in what it takes to trigger desire. A man can be trig...

There are lots of reasons to make positive karma deposits. I wonder if one of them isn't simply the practical benefit of what it does fo...

I think it would be interesting to have a technology that lets cars communicate to each other, a variant on blue tooth technology that lets ...

After the financial meltdown, people have pointed fingers. Who they blame seems to say more about their ideology than the reality of financi...