In Praise of Folly

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When the data is inconvenient, decry it as skewed. This has been the conservative mantra for years – maybe starting way back in the 80s whe...

After the results over the past month and a half, Arsenal can be proud of their gritty 1-1 draw with Man City today. But it was still more ...

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Should he stay or should he go? That has to be the thought coursing through the cerebral cortex of any Gooner who has suffered through almo...

After all the bad press around the 2008 financial crisis, one would think the banks would be careful with their public image. Yet high bonu...

Statistical Whiz-Kid Nate Silver made waves last week with the launch of his new FiveThirtyEight website and his proclamation that opinion ...

I’m too depressed at the moment to recount the destruction that took place at Stamford Bridge today, so I’ll just say that Arsenal was down...

Oscar Wilde once said, ““Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.” For a man in California, a simple self-search on Go...

What are the top ten sports films of all times? Hard to say of course, and it depends on both the criteria you use and your subjective taste...

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Arsenal has rarely been able to pull off the double against North London bitter rival Tottenham in recent years. This season they have now ...

Yet another celebrity. Mad Men’s Elizabeth Moss, is out hawking for Scientology: Salon . Why is the fake, probably corrupt, clearly absurdi...

I don't think it comes as much of a surprise to anyone that Arsenal have been booted out of the UCL yesterday and that City followed to...

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The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) is in full swing, and while the Internet seems abuzz with analysis of the True Detectiv...

I’ve been watching the HBO series Boardwalk Empire (2010-Present) over the past few weeks and a question emerged for me – is this the most ...

Arsenal snatched the lead early on Mesut Ozil’s 7 th minute goal, his first since December 8. Arteta started the attack with a pass to Ox ...

Abortion just won’t go away as a wedge issue. A surprising new study from the Guttmacher Institute ( Press Release ), however, found that a...

Three excerpts from Auden's "The Cave of Making." The first two relate to poetry, though in some ways the second verse would b...

I have been writing on occasion about the way victimhood has been used by the right for at least the past 30 years, if not longer. This h...

Arsenal has held firm against the doubters all the way through to the New Year and into February. And even though there were setbacks at Li...

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...