Category: Reflections

A specter is haunting Al Gore and friends. No, it’s not global warming with its scary tornados, sea level rises, and species extinctions. It is …

Obama’s man in Afghanistan has made an astonishing admission. In a comment on American checkpoints, General Stanley McChrystal said: “We have shot an amazing number …

I have always enjoyed thought experiments and other mind games that breakthrough habits of thinking or offer unusual insights. It is just plain fun to …

The Department of Health and Human Services has kindly notified me that the inhalers keeping my asthma in check are being dis- continued. DHHS is …

According to a recent Gallup poll, 67% of Americans no longer believe global warming will threaten their lifestyle. The other 33% are scientists who rely …

Some people are lucky, some aren’t. Take Larry Langford, a maven of machines of chance. He’s one of the blessed ones. Lucky Larry won more …

In the February 23 issue of the Huffington Post is an article by “actress/singer/composer/ activist” Barbra Streisand. It’s called “Elections Should Be Won — Not …

In the same week, both Stephen Colbert, on his show, and John Stossel on his, introduced their brothers — their real-life siblings. Colbert’s younger brother …

Wow! It is finally official: we won the war in Iraq! No less an expert than the esteemed vice president of the United States has …

I’d put the blame for the magnitude of Haiti’s problems 100% at the feet of its government. It’s not the geology, nor that this earthquake …