In Praise of Folly

Arsenal's winning streak ended a week earlier than some would have imagined as they fell 2-1 to QPR. It was a largely flat performance t...

Mitt Romney continues to put his foot in it almost every time he speaks. The latest occurred at a televised town hall meeting in Michigan, w...

The Hunger Games is not for the light-hearted; as I, for one, left the theatre seriously disturbed. Yet it is a movie that seems well-si...

Actually I'm exaggerating. The bottom 99 percent of wage earners received a slightly more modest $80 each in increased income last year...

Another  big day for the Gunners, as we won easily 3-0 over Aston Villa and benefited from the 0-0 Chelsea-Tottenham match. Sure it would ha...

A great article a couple of days ago from L Magazine goes through some of the more "empathetic" statements from our white, male re...

Romney pulled off an important win in Illinois and seems poised to spend his way to the nomination now, with Santorum all but dead and burie...

A huge 1-0 road win over Everton today was only the first piece of good news, in an almost perfect day for the Gunners. Chelsea blew a 1-0 l...

Many believed that globalization would usher in an age of cosmopolitanism that would bring people together and cut through centuries of nati...

A huge victory for the Gunners, who looked the likelier to win throughout but left it until the 94th minute and a cool finish from Vermaelen...

Romney had a big night on Super Tuesday, shoring up his delegate lead even as he suffered further defeats to chief rival Rick Santorum and b...

I read today a petition at Moveon.org to get Rush Limbaugh kicked off the air. While I agree that he is a parasite who offers unsubstantiate...

Well I needed a day to digest the almost miracle comeback yesterday before I could write about it. For 45 minutes we looked like one of the ...

Rush Limbaugh, who has never felt compelled to actually live the life he preaches, appears to be on the defensive again after a rather half-...

The GOP is at it again, from Rush Limbaugh calling Sandra Fluke a "slut" and a "prostitute," for arguing that Georgetown...

A huge weekend for the Gunners, who pulled off a rather stunning 2-1 victory after being outplayed most of the game. The two heroes were RVP...

A recent study from a Berkeley professor found that the rich tended to act more unethically than those with moderate or low earnings: Slate ...

Much has been made of the state of refereeing in soccer over the past few years, particularly at the 2010 World Cup (a disgrace -- including...

Reagan once said that "facts are stupid things" and this seems to be a rallying cry of conservatives in this election cycle. The l...

34 minutes into the North London derby today, Tottenham led 2-0, the Gunners looked terrible and I was screaming internally for the club to ...

I often write reviews of films I don't like, and this has been particularly true in the last year when Hollywood rather consistently dis...

When I read the news today, I sometimes feel like I'm stuck in a time warp back to the 1950s. The racist undertones, talk of socialism a...