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Much of the country seemed transfixed by the Goldman Sachs hearings in Congress yesterday.  The government should never have paid off on Gol...

An AP headline this morning read: "Goldman CEO, 'Fabulous Fab' facing Congress." Senior Partner Lloyd Blankfein and VP Fab...

My daughter recently showed me a picture of a soccer ball which stores energy. Evidently after a game or two it can store up enough energy t...

I had occasion to shake hands with an 18-year-old the other day, and was a bit thrown by what he did. Before I could move in for the regular...

My son asked me an interesting question the other day: if you could appoint anyone you wanted as President, who would it be? My son said he...

A few short months after having broken all box office records, Avatar seems to have not really penetrated the popular culture. Maybe it...

Still on the current vacation (see two posts ago), which hasn't gotten any better. So I've started planning my next vacation. It...

(above, Vladek Sheybal as Kronsteen, the SPECTRE agent in From Russia With Love ; right, Vladimir Putin as Russian Prime Minister) Actor Vla...

Your intrepid correspondent has traveled all the way to Mexico in order to be able to file this post about it. I am reporting from Club Med ...

Which professors and speakers are worth listening to? One clue is how much organized opposition he attracts on campus. Given the liberal loc...

My son has recently been saying he thinks college is basically a great big scam. He's basing his opinion on his impression of the teache...

The previous link got me to thinking about Vladimir Putin. He looks very Slavic, with that inhe...

The best piece I've ever read on Vladimir Putin, by Ralph Peters in this morning's NY Post: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/ope...

This is Navy Seal Michael Murphy, one of two Medal of Honor recipients from the war in Afghanistan. He was killed on June 28, 2005. When his...

(top left and right, Marine Corporal Jason Dunham; right, and bottom left, Navy Seal Michael Monsoor) While looking up recent Medal of Honor...

About a decade ago I read an interview with Alex Popov, the Russian swimming champion. At one point the interviewer asked Popov who his favo...

If you look though the masters record book in swimming, it's hard not to notice that the guys who hold the world and American records in...

This post will, I promise, mark the end of this blog's temporary flirtation with the subject of death. Why read the obituaries? There...

The previous post sparked a thought: it's actually a useful exercise for all of us to contemplate what our obituaries might say. Thinkin...

(Kit Horn; photo courtesy of Tom Keck) Last Saturday's New York Times ran the obituary of Kit Horn: "Kit Horn, a skilled surfer...