Principled politics without compromise, or as they used to call it - war. To me it is a failure of process that budgets could ever become ...

This is the sort of thing that gives bloggers an inflated sense of self. So of course we post it.

Saturday, Oregon played UC Berkeley. If you google "Oregon football cal" you will get 36,200 results. By contrast, if you google ...

Intrapreneurship - creating a new business from within a business - is getting more attention. Or my friend Norman is just better at spottin...

The cashier at Trader Joe's confessed his pessimism about life to me, and the fact that he didn't believe in God. He said, "You...

In the late sixties in Connecticut, condoms were illegal. It wasn't until 1975 that a woman could open a checking account without her hu...

ESPN has become the wallpaper of many lunch spots. And of course during the day it's an curious thing to show because - as near as I can...

Have you every noticed how deliberately Clinton, Bush, and Obama speak? You have to talk slowly and predictably when you're trying to le...

It had been a terribly long time since I'd had lunch with Bernard. He was animated, his eyes twinkling as he greeted me. When Bernard ha...

Gandhi and Martin Luther King attempted suicide in their teens. Abraham Lincoln was so suicidal at one point in his life that friends brough...

The really interesting question about Syria is one of national sovereignty in the 21st century. Imagine that you think family is the most ...

Ronald Coase died Monday. He was 102 and had just published a book last year. Nice life. Here is my mention of him in my book, The Fourth ...

Syria is a mess. Assad is killing rebels who - to be fair - are doing their best to kill Assad. And of course the killing is not limited to ...

Listening to a program on evolutionary psychology , I heard this fascinating bit about how sexual education might not make much difference t...

The brilliant, funny Stephen Fry contrasts the humor of the British and their rambunctious off-spring.

Gallup tracks quite a few variables that define America in this 21st century. I've combined three of them below: the % of Americans who ...

For the US and most of the West, economic growth during the 20th century was unprecedented. Mind boggling. Per capita incomes rose by nearly...

Everything is made up. Tyrannies and polygamies and capitalism and K-12 education. It’s all made up but of course we quickly forget that an...

SAC Capital is under investigation for insider trading. A securities analyst has been accused of leaking secret information about a potent...

We can only hope that when voters replace San Diego mayor Bob Filner they don't do what they did after Clinton and elect someone whose o...