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Today I want to introduce you to a wonderful short piece of classical music ... and then "ruin" it for you. Among Mozart's mo...

Never in my life have I wanted more to be in New York.  As part of their celebration of the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven , Ca...

I went out for lunch to McDonald's today.  Once I had my food, I had to decide where to sit: in the main area where two TVs were playi...

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.           -- H.L. Mencken

Michael Lewis' book The Big Short ( Wikipedia summary ) was a fascinating look at a few people who saw the 2007 financial crisis coming...

No matter how badly people in your college -- or almost any organization, frankly -- they almost certainly didn't act as fiscally irresp...

Earlier this year, I was listening to the NPR show Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me while I washed the dishes, and Huey Lewis turned up for ...

The National Review magazine sponsored a 2012 Post Election Cruise for the week after last November's election. Their readers no doubt ...

After all the discussion about guns lately, "The Simple Truth About Gun Control" is one of the best (and well-documented) article...

As someone who appreciates good charts and graphs and finds politics and economics interesting, I enjoyed this Washington Post Wonkblog post...

John Tyler (1790-1862), the tenth President of the United States (1841-1845), has two grandsons alive today. As 83-year-old Harrison Ruff...

One of my small joys in life occurs when I make an obscure reference and someone gets it. Today at work I got an elevator that had descend...

I'd never heard of "Baumol's disease" until I read this Steven Pearlstein column about it. It turns out that we're al...

I read about this a few weeks ago but didn't have time to post it. As a writer, I know it's easy to fall in love with a few words an...