The wrong way to invest in a secular bear market is to lunge after stocks even at these multi-year lows. We’re still mired in a severe credit-inflicted recession that will probably keep a lid on growth for the next few years until leverage in the financial system is finally exhausted. However, con...

Sex in the city Review by Amir Muhammad Urban Odysseys: KL Stories Edited by Janet Tay & Eric Forbes(MPH Group Publishing, 2009) THIS HANDSOMELY PRODUCED VOLUME is a good excuse to talk about Malaysian Literature in English (MLE). Like the dragon of Lake Chini, the MLE is a semi-mythical creatur...

Dave Denholm checks email during a commercial break on 710 ESPN's Denholm & Long show. Photo by Eric Richardson. Last Monday, 710 ESPN began broadcasting from its new studios at L.A. Live. It's hard to imagine anyone at the station is more excited about the move than Senior Reporter Dave Denholm...

 Major League Baseball umpires get four weeks of paid vacation every summer. They don't actually shout "Play ball!" before games. And a tie does not, to my dismay, go to the runner. So reports my friend Bruce Weber , a New York Times staff writer and author of " As They See ...

Eric S. Margolis March 11, 2009 Special for the Huffington Post NEW YORK - Iran has haunted every U.S. administration since the days of President Jimmy Carter. While running for president, Barack Obama proposed opening talks with Tehran and trying to end the long Cold War between the United States a...

In his analysis of how the Rush Limbaugh controversy is dividing the GOP, Rick Moran makes the following observation: The right is in Dante's ninth circle of hell, condemned to be encased in solid ice with only their heads showing,......

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I had a whole section on Claudio Vargas written out, mostly about how unlike Milton, Estes, and Weaver, he was given a major-league contract rather than just a spring training invite. But all that's out the window after Monday, because Claudio Vargas has committed the unthinkable: he allowed a home ...

[snippage] FWIW, it's not consistent with my experience. But maybe that's due to a sample that's too small, or too unrepresentative of the Jewish population in the U.S., or southern Illinois. Though we are coming at this backwards. More significant would be knowing that a high percentage (or a low...

You seem to think I'm a Republican. Bzzzt!! Thanks for playing. You also seem to think that "Repugnicatn" and "Repugnicants" were typos, and trivial ones. An odd conclusion, that. Google tells me that "Repugnican" is a pejorative term for a type of Republican. Whoopie. ...