Just Not Said

(said after standing up): My name is John Craig and I am an online Scrabble-aholic. If you're an alcoholic, at least you have a grandl...

The recent news about the FBI's current crackdown on insider trading brought to mind what happened to a friend several years ago. My f...

There were a group of six Navy Seal candidates being trained at my local pool yesterday by a former Marine drill instructor. They would do...

The news of Mohamed Osman Mohamud's attempt to explode a large bomb at a crowded Christmas tree lighting in Portland, Oregon, was all o...

The public loves nothing more than a comeback story, and Lance Armstrong's is one of the greatest: he survived testicular, lung, ab...

After spending a couple of days at an alumni reunion of sorts this past weekend, I have come to the following conclusion: The degree to wh...

The headline and first three paragraphs of a NY Post article from this morning: Cokehead convicted in Pace student slay by Laura Italian...

After seeing these pictures, it's hard not to wonder, if Washington were alive today, would he h...

A video of Audrey Hepburn from Breakfast at Tiffany's . As miscast as she was in that movie, it showed her at her most (incredibly) beau...

There is much to be critical of when it comes to Continental culture. But one aspect of it I have never felt particularly critical of is tha...

The Wikipedia entry on Robin Hood offers a dismayingly complex and inconclusive explanation as to the possible origins of his story. I had ...

Guy Davis pointed this out the other day: at left wing protests, you tend to see a preponderance of professionally made signs which are ma...

The irrepressible Vladimir Putin was in the news again this weekend, this time for racing a Formula One race car at speeds up to 150 miles...

Part of the reason to watch the NY Marathon today was to see Haile Gebrselassie, the greatest distance runner of all time. Gebrselassie has...

A little while back, in "Pomp and circumstance," I mentioned the theme from Last of the Mohicans . If you haven't seen the mov...

In the previous post I described how my son had mocked my narrow readership a few days ago. That wasn't the only insult he hurled my way...

Dolph Lundgren has an impressive resume. He was a European heavyweight champion at karate. He completed his military training at the Swedis...

(left, official poster for Hereafter with Cecille de France and Matt Damon; below, Damon with Bryce Dallas Howard) Clint East...

Has there ever been a clearer instance of political correctness than NPR firing Juan Williams for his statement that seeing people in Muslim...

(Jimmy McMillan) I didn't watch the televised New York gubernatorial debate the other night, but supposedly third party candidate Jim...