In Praise of Folly

Arsenal has started the season with two nil-nil draws, seemingly both challenging and reinforcing the narratives going into the season. To s...

After a rather depressing draw yesterday, Wenger announced that Alex Song was also on his way off -- to Barcelona for 15 million pounds. Unl...

Well, a 0-0 draw at home against a less than impressive Sunderland is not the result Gooners were hoping for. There were some bright spots b...

Well, the news is official. After months of back and forth and one media report after another turning out false, Robin Van Persie has walked...

Double speak is on a rampage these days, from cheaters calling themselves sex addicts to Romney calling out Obama's campaign as "a...

It is hard to pigeonholing what Mitt Romney actually stands for, as he has far surpassed any "flip-flopping" presidential candidat...

The general tenor of the election is turning increasingly ugly as Romney and his corporate brethren attempt to win arguing for a return to t...

Well, I've been away from the blog for a while. Got busy with school, a novel that's almost finished and a few papers that are curre...

Good news in a recent lawsuit against GlaxoSmithKline, which cost them $3 billion: Slate . Apparently it is but a small dent in their profit...

As everyone who follows football at all now knows, Robin Van Persie wants out of Arsenal. Not only has he committed to leaving, he felt like...

Today i thought I'd mention six movies I love that aren't necessarily part of the American filmography lexicon. They are not the gre...

Tomorrow Euro 2012 will end and either Spain will have set a mark for the ages or Italy will have completed an improbable run to the title. ...

So in a surprise that wouldn't have been a surprise at all a few months ago, the Supreme Court upheld "Obamacare" and the mand...

While Germans and most of Europe prepared for the predicted final with Spain, Italy had other ideas. In a masterful performance by the Azurr...

So after four quarterfinals, with four expected winners we move onto the semis today and tomorrow. England lost in penalties after a very ne...

After a rousing two weeks of major and minor surprises and a lot of goals, we enter the knock out stage of Euro 2012 today. My predictions f...

After weeks of bad news, President Obama has finally heard something positive -- he has a double-digit lead over rival Romney at present (53...

So the European Championships are in full swing and there have been some major and minor surprises, often involving players for Arsenal. Wal...

As over $60 million dollars are thrown around to try to keep right-wing darling Scott Walker in the Wisconsin Governor's seat ( Daily Ca...

Many still love Bill Clinton, but it also clear that part of his legacy was setting us on the path toward the financial crisis of 2008. How?...

Watching the game or looking at the statistics, it seems hard to believe Chelsea actually beat Bayern Munich yesterday. Forty-three shots to...