In Praise of Folly

So Arsenal has finally made some signing including striker Park Chu-Young, central defender Per Mertesacker and left back Andre Santos. Each...

With the damage, destruction and cost in lives and money still piling up in the wake of Hurricane Irene it's good to know that the party...

I feel like adding a short second post as a postscript to the worst away defeat for Arsenal in a century. While it is clear that Wenger'...

Good news for Republicans and the country -- Michelle Bachmann can solve all our problems within one economic quarter of winning the preside...

Well, hopeful insanity is often rewarded with disappointment. The thrashing we took at Manchester United has shown that the Wenger project i...

A blog by a hated Man U fan today begged the question of whether Samri Nasri is a whore for taking the City money and running, rather than j...

Sorry to my readers who don't give a damn about Arsenal, but there are only 2 or 3 of you I think and this is my current obsession. I wa...

Crazy, Stupid, Love. is rarely crazy, occasionally stupid and, well, all about love. It starts with the revelation of an affair by Cal's...

The football media in England is almost as bad as the celebrity reporters all across the U.S. They make drama of the mundane, cry glory and ...

One of the troubling trends in Higher Education today is the call to make it predominantly about providing technical skills to future worker...

Last week billionaire Warren Buffett argued that billionaires should be paying more in taxes -- through an increase in capital gains taxes a...

Arsenal fans are apoplectic about the just started season, worrying about the lack of quality signings, the loss of our captain and best pla...

Newly anointed as a leading candidate for the GOP Presidential nomination, Rick Perry has gotten off to an interesting start. Yesterday he c...

Like E.F. Hutton, when Warren Buffett speaks, people listen. He has offered his sage advice on market reform, larger economic trends and a h...

So Michelle Bachmann won the Iowa straw poll today ( CNN Story ). And Rick Perry has made it official, he's running as well. We still do...

A couple of months ago, I wrote a post on the troubling conservative turn of the Supreme Court under Robert's tutelage. Today I read of ...

I have been absent from my blog for too long, but decided to start it up again today and try to get to it at least five days a week from now...

The Supreme Court has again decided a case in favor of corporate interests, this time by ruling that the California law that sought to limit...

I originally thought that the IMF chief had simply chased a maid down the hall -- now that I know more I want to apologize for this complete...

I am going to start considering an issue of my own research here -- the relationship between knowledge and power. To start this series of en...

I was just reading an old article by Malcolm Gladwell about the successful marketing of Dockers in the 80s and 90s. The advertisers used a s...

Yesterday I took a break from work and watched The Green Hornet , a $120 million movie that may have been the worst superhero action film ev...

I have often wondered at the ongoing fascination with the Vampire. One could offer a simple analysis, that vampires inspire our dreams of im...

As someone who grew up in New Jersey and New York, the image of Donald Trump that immediately comes to mind is buffoon. Not only the silly h...

The President scored a major victory yesterday with the death of terrorist and Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. He received praise from most...

If the court decisions keep on at their current rate, one could imagine a time when the average citizen will be forced by law to tie the sho...

CNN, which has been making the call for "balance" an almost absurd raison d'etre of late, does have at least one pundit willin...

Accountability, on the surface, makes sense. If democracy is to function properly we need transparency and tools to ensure that the governme...