Can someone tell me just what in the wide world of sports is going on in this country? I am so confused by the news these days. Admittedly,...

Around about this time in every election cycle you start to hear people threaten to "move to Canada if [insert name of other side's...

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Okay, I'm only going to say this to you numskull kids one more time. I'm glad you're all for peace and everything. I condemn the...

Just a few of my own thoughts (well, I suppose I'm not the only one with these thoughts) to close out the discussion on the TSA's ag...

As you know, from time to time I'll post guest editorials about various topical subjects. These guest posts do not necessarily reflect ...

The Facebook message came through pretty early this morning. "I bet you're on cloud nine with the big Republican takeover in last n...

The comment from Lodo came, not apropos of the post it was on but certainly an apt continuation of a conversation we've been having he...

It's been growing, like another wart on the ugly face of American pop culture, for a few years now. I'd hear these rumors and rumbli...

There's been quite a public debate of late regarding the fate of a certain parcel of land in a certain highly-prized district that also ...

A couple of days ago I was having The Worst Day Ever. Overslept. Woke up with a stiff neck. Kid wouldn't eat her breakfast. Blew out my ...

Rewind to the spring of, say, 2004. It's a few days after I just bought my first (and probably last) brand new car. Nothing flashy. Just...

Politicians and their sheeple have done a great job this year of bringing back race as a wedge issue. We were all really concerned that once...

There was something I wanted to keyboard about a couple of weeks ago, but because I've got a good job in the city, working for the man e...

It probably shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone that the anniversary of the Bill of Rights was a couple of days ago and nobody notic...

Like a lot of people I gave an internal smile of satisfaction when I saw the video a couple of weeks ago of Sen. Barney Frank chastising a w...

The Wall Street Journal assures us that our financially beleaguered friends at Goldman-Sachs were still barely limping along in the second ...

There's a lot of hoo-hah and bluster going on right now about how stupidly the cops in Cambridge, Mass. acted for arresting a guy who wa...

In our ongoing social/civic/economic discussion, Xavier Onassis , my second cousin twice removed and head of the International Organization...

Just in case my Tomato illustration went way over your head, Barry Ritholtz submits a nice easy-to-read infographic (you know, for the USA...