After all these years of bloviating, I still can"t tell in advance what will get people riled up. I"ll spend hours in research for a good deep thumb-sucking piece on ...
So I was in the downstairs study, idly surfing the Web while the Mrs. watched TV in the next room. The door was open"gotta keep "em in sight"so TV noises drifted ...
Hope, our grandmothers told us, makes a good breakfast, but a poor supper. My guess is that where hope for convergence of the races in America is concerned, it's around 6 p.m. on ...
One summer's day 32 years ago, during a spell of employment at the U.K. offices of Marathon Oil Corp. in London's Marylebone Road, I was taking lunch at a nondescript greasy spoon ...
That was me last week. It was a doubleheader. Sunday the 20th I flew to Tucson for the "Toward a Science of Consciousness" conference at the university there. ...
Retired SCOTUS Justice John Paul Stevens wants to amend the U.S. Constitution, I see. The old boy"he's just turned 94"has a book out in which he proposes six ...
Standing up for work. So I got a new desk. I"d been reading these news stories about how bad it is for your health to sit all day. The phrase "the sitting ...
I"ll be speaking to the American Renaissance conference at the end of this month. (What, you haven"t signed up yet? Still time!) Title of talk: "China, America, and ...
Back in the dear old 1950s, when Western Civilization reached its zenith, Edward R. Murrow ran a regular radio spot titled This I Believe, to which persons both eminent and ...
In his column the other day, Pat Buchanan quoted the last lines of Robert Southey’s poem ‘The Battle of Blenheim”: "But what good came of it at last?" ...
I see I have once again made the Southern Poverty Law Center's Hatewatch Headlines. They link to RightWingWatch.org, who caught me hatefully spewing hateful hatefulness in an ...
Is a baseball mitt a toy? How about a trampoline? Is a goose a farm animal or a wild animal? Is chess-playing an art or a science? Do I shelve a novel about China with my fiction ...
This year is the centenary of the late great pop mathematician Martin Gardner (1914-2010). A posthumous autobiography (you don’t see that phrase often) appeared last ...
"The book that people are reading now," according to Lion of the Blogosophere, is Brynjolfsson and McAfee’s The Second Machine Age. I hastened to buy a copy and read ...
A concerned reader sent me a link to this video in which, he said, my name was taken in vain. Yes, I know, it’s an irritating imposition on readers to open a column by ...
Call me a cockeyed optimist, but I took heart from the micro-fuss over Jerry Seinfeld's push-back against PC bullying the other day. In case you missed it, Seinfeld was being ...
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