This blog is now resident within the online magazine  Ordinary Times . Editor-in-Chief Erik Kain introduces the newly-revamped blog -- w...

Watching the protests in Egypt last month descend into violence, especially seeing video from the BBC and CNN of pro-democracy protesters cl...

Here's the recent history: 2001: Aerosmith (and guests) 2002: U2 2003: Shania Twain (and guests) 2004: Janet Jackson And Her All-St...

This is very close to my four thousandth post. So of course it gives me much joy to dedicate it to the Super Bowl XLV champions, the 2010 Gr...

This blog is moving.  I'm not shutting down, I'm taking advantage of a fantastic offer from one of the best blogs out there on the I...

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A homeless couple in Green Bay won an all-expense paid trip to the Super Bowl . Where it's only marginally warmer and less snowy than in...

The amazing thing, I suppose, is that it took nine days before things began to turn seriously violent in Egypt. After Egypt’s dictator Pr...

So The Wife and I had another blind wine-tasting party. We invited three other couples, to limit seating, and limited wine to six bottles. I...

There seems to be some debate about whether the U.S. should be backing the Mubarak government in Egypt, backing the protestors, or standing ...

Beyonce. Halle Berry. Tim McGraw. Jessica Simpson. Mariah Carey. Sean John. Sarah Jessica Parker. Christina Aguilera. Britney Spears. Usher....

Usually we think of economics as studies in supply and demand, price and consumption, in a setting of scarcity. But scarcity can come not fr...

We're not anywhere close to seeing democracy emerge in the north African nations (other than Algeria ). But that doesn't mean there ...

That's how I feel after a day like today. I need to remind myself that the number of people who go see doctors for problems, get prescri...

I don't think there's all that many singers out there who would do something like this song today. So many of them are auto-tuned in...

Why is it top-of-the-roster news for two days in a row that Antonin Scalia isn't going to attend the State of the Union address ? I'...

You would have thought that security wouldn't have been a problem in Russia, unburdened as it is with concerns for civil liberties. But ...

In a move that surprises no one but simply continues politics as usual and adds further assurance that we will run our national debt into fi...

In a maneuver clearly calculated to engender massive respect for the legal profession, an Alabama law firm has taken advantage of that state...