In Praise of Folly

One could spend 24/7 covering the right wing penchant for creating a theatre of the absurd out of American politics and culture, but a fear...

To lift a weight so heavy, Would take your courage, Sisyphus! Although one's heart is in the work, Art is long and Time is short. Far...

Arsenal cruised to an easy 4-1 victory over Sunderland today on the eve of the toughest stretch of their season, beating a team in the mids...

The Winter Olympics in Sochi have been a great success overall, with Russia celebrating an unlikely Gold in Women's Figure Skating, 26 ...

The Champions League first leg tie between Arsenal and Bayern started with a fine save by Szczesny on a shot from Tony Kroos in the 2 nd m...

Examples of the postmodern condition seem to emerge with increased frequency with each passing year. We have the absurd ongoing debates on ...

For many years, people have worried that the overly-ambitious schedules, the high stakes tests, the fading prospects for quality jobs and t...

One could spend 48 hours a day cataloging the consistent bias that plagues the American mainstream media today. One rather obvious example ...

Arsenal might have been outplayed for large portions of the game, may have gotten lucky on a couple of missed penalty calls and could easil...

Arsenal again dropped points against a top six competitor, with another dreary 0-0 draw at home (following the same scoreline against Chels...

Another state has added itself to the growing list of those who have either outlawed or are longing putting people to death. This time it i...

Yet another example of conservative media bias comes into focus today thanks to Campaign for America's Future. As with many historic p...

When Bush stole the 2000 election, many pundits had been arguing for months that there was little difference between he and Gore. Famously,...

Many reporters and football pundits will feel vindicated by the demolition of Arsenal at Anfield today, affirming their claims that the Gun...

The laziness and ineptitude of the mainstream media continues to impress in its consistency. Of course a foolish consistency is the hobgobl...

Following up on the theme from yesterday, Congress has enacted the latest Farm Bill, which besides huge subsidies to agribusiness conglomer...

For many years, conservatives had decried the "lazy," unethical, "crack addict" Welfare recipients for callously taking ...

As I'm sure most of you have heard, one of our truly great actors passed away this past weekend. Philip Seymour Hoffman started out play...

Arsenal trudged through a 0-0 stalemate in the first half where they dominated possession but couldn’t break through a very well-organized ...

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Around the time Obama was running for reelection, a new American victimization emerged that seemed borderline absurd ( New Yorker ). The on...

Arsenal played one of the worst halves of their season so far, lucky to be only 1-0 down at halftime after Sam Gallagher missed a chance to...

The Wolf of Wall Street is an entertaining, often hilarious film that seems to perfectly capture the amoral, heartless world of greed and c...