In Praise of Folly

Arsenal's 3-2 come from behind victory on Sunday was a huge boost to a reeling club. Down 2-0 at halftime, with fans booing, it looked l...

Bill Maher on CNN debates the quality of debates and hails Obama for, well, speaking the truth, something the GOP candidates just don't ...

A new phrase that has emerged in recent years is the "jobless recovery" and at the more radical end the "jobless economy....

Well as is often the case in making predictions, some including me have apparently been premature in announcing the moribund fate of a Gingr...

The long march toward conservatism that arguably started in 1968 and exploded in 1981 appears to go on undaunted by the financial crisis of ...

Contagion is that oddest of films, a thriller without many thrills, an ensemble cast that could have been cast aside without much lost and...

I think the distressing and depressing 2-1 loss to Manchester United today might be the one that ultimately costs Wenger his job -- or shoul...

Is the Occupy Wall Street movement to be swept aside into the dustbin of history or is it to become part of our collective consciousness, a...

The iPad 3 is rumored to be coming out in March of this year. And it can't be soon enough for those of us suffering under the weight of ...

Yesterday the man who has called Mitt Romney out for his flip-flopping more than any other candidate dropped out of the race and then almost...

After a campaign as a moderate in a party that has given reigns to its most extreme ideas unsurprisingly fell short, Jon Huntsman dropped ou...

The French are coming! The French are coming! And they won a bunch of awards, all for the silent film "The Artist" ( Best Comedy/...

Arsenal have had a tendency to suffer unacceptable and often unnerving results in the second half of the past several seasons. Last year it ...

The most recent evidence that a socialist revolution is just around the corner comes from the latest Pew Research survey, which found that 2...

Mitt Romney took another step toward securing the Republican presidential nomination yesterday with a big victory in the New Hampshire prima...

Arsenal were rambling through their 3rd round FA cup tie against Leeds United without much creativity and with nothing even close to resembl...

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) sometimes feels like a film that is several decades late in arrival and yet simultaneously quite refreshing...

Now that Mitt Romney appears to be closing in on the Republican Presidential nomination it is time to start focusing more attention on this...

So after all the stops and starts, it appears that Romney probably is the man to beat in the Republican nomination process: LA Times . His s...

Released at almost the same time, two sequels continued popular originals. Mission Impossible 4 was a refreshing update to the franchise, th...

Arsenal reentered the top four for the first time this season on the 31st of December renewing hope that they can indeed secure their Champi...

Not the most convincing of performances, but another win to close out 2011, 1-0 over QPR. For the second game in a row, Arsenal had chance a...