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When I mentioned to my son a couple days ago that Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman had finally been caught, he respo...

I was just testing myself this morning, realizing how poor my powers of observation were regarding whose portrait was on which dollar denomi...

Yesterday's post on leadership reminded me of something I thought every time I saw a picture of Nelson Mandela: that he looked as much B...

It's always gratifying to be proven right: I had guessed last May that the Goldman Sachs elevator tweeter was just making those quotes u...

The Ukrainian people were recently stunned when they took over the Presidential palace in Kiev and found out the extent of President Yanukov...

A commenter ("A") just pointed out, after the previous post: Another example of this is the former Swedish chief of police...

This blog has stated numerous times that people generally don't go on about how caring and decent they are unless they aren't. ...

A young man recently told me he'd noticed that you could pretty much tell which girls will have sex with you based on how they said hell...

More questions raised by last week's Mercedes Benz Fashion Week: The name if this designer was "Asia Fashion Collection." ...

I couldn't help but be struck again by the creativity of the designers at New York's Fashion Week which just ended. But I was also p...

Writing the post about Michael Sam a few days ago got me to thinking, what would the high school social scene be like if the average hom...

There's a certain type of person who feels he -- or she -- has to watch an event just because it's gotten a lot of publicity. This t...

In a meeting on Tuesday Chancellor of New York City Schools Carmen Farina said , in reference to how important it is to have pre-K classe...

Yesterday, a young man told me, "There is no group of people in the entire world who are less intellectually curious than American coll...

NFL prospect Michael Sam has gotten so much predictably positive publicity, so much sympathy, and so much goodwill from his coming out th...

The modern Olympic Games were first revived in 1896; the first Winter Olympics were held in 1924. They were instituted at the behest of the ...

In the latest Jack Ryan movie, Ryan, as usual, saves the United States. First he does it in Moscow, a city he's never been to before but...

The big issue in the Ukraine recently has been whether to align more closely with the European Union or with mother Russia. Vladimir Putin j...

We were at a Thai restaurant the other evening. While we were waiting for our food some sappy song was playing in the background. I didn...

One of the more annoying things about buying a new car is that the price quoted is never the final price. There are always add-ons; some are...