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My son recently mentioned something he'd just read: that you can tell everything you need to know about someone from watching him work o...

A recent article in the NY Post said that Kim Jong Un, North Korea's leader, had ordered all the men in his country to get his haircut:...

Former television anchor Willow Bay has just been appointed director of USC's journalism school. She was until recently a senior edi...

The TV show Naked and Afraid  is an intriguing concept: putting two people into the jungle and seeing if they can survive for 21 days and re...

I remember watching the Holyfield-Tyson fights of 1996 and 1997, and thinking how magnificent they looked. Both men entered the ring superbl...

Most people seem to have a "type" to whom they're physically attracted. And it is often said that opposites attract. It seems ...

A couple days ago I was talking to a friend from my hometown who's about to leave on vacation for Florida. "It's going to be ...

The news that the sailor in the iconic photo of VJ Day, Glenn McDuffie , 86, died a few days ago brought home the realization that it wou...

When I was driving back from Bethesda on Sunday I noticed a number of prominent signs along the highway saying, "DUI Enforcement Zone....

I competed in a masters swimming meet this weekend in Bethesda, MD. I was going for the world record for 60-64 year olds in the 200 short co...

Usually real life crimes, unlike the fictional kind, are fairly straightforward: there's an obvious suspect, an obvious motive, and not ...

The young man from the previous post just recounted a recent conversation he'd had. He was talking to a college student who is thinking ...

A young man, who is heterosexual, told me the other day that there's actually more flattery value in being told you're good-looking ...

The following quote was on a financial website (RealMoney.com) this morning: "When the number of factors coming into play in a phen...

A recent NY Times article about Kevin McCrary , the son of Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburgh, drove home what's happened to WASPS in this...

The State Department is now saying that what is going on Crimea is illegal, and that they can't just declare their independence from the...

Art is usually thought of as an arena separate from politics; but it's not, really. It occurred to me the other day that people's ...

When I started to do research for this post, I found that there is an entire meme on the internet devoted to the toughness of the honey b...

I was flipping channels the other evening and stumbled across Charlie Sheen on a recent episode of Anger Management . He looked fine, and...

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