Quarterly Questions: Answers How is this format different than your live chats? Fewer one-word answers and no musical score, among other things. I'll likely get back to live chatting next week, but this is a nice change of pace. Who were the toughest players to decide where to rank on the top-40 pro...

Last week my co-worker sent this email regarding the current economic situation. He has quite a way with words - sarcasm & humor being careful tools in this convicting challeng to us all. After this week’s dismal stock performance, it’s official: The media is screaming how “the worst econo...

I think I might spend more time now communicating with family and friends on social sites than via email. I tend to use Facebook more with my family and local friends, and Twitter more with work colleagues and my virtual friends.  You can follow me on Twitter here.  And you can find me on ...

If you want to destroy the world, don't bother building a hydrogen bomb, just steal some self-replicating nanobots and cover the Earth in a layer of all-consuming grey goo. That's the moral of a hilarious video, which appeared this morning on the Mental Floss website. "It was created with cutti...

By Josh Hafenbrack, Tallahassee Bureau TALLAHASSEE -- Broward Sen. Nan Rich's bill to make bestiality a crime is moving toward becoming law, picking up a unanimous committee approval today. Florida is among 16 states that don’t outlaw the act of......

The Washington Post embarrasses itself with this editorial by Yuval Levin, attacking Obama for abandoning Bush's cowardly stance on stem cell research. Embarrassment starts with the headline, "Science Over All?". Was that picked by the author? Given the tendency of stem cell research opponents inclu...

Congressman Anthony Weiner released his own MTA rescue plan today. As if that in itself weren't surprising enough, the outspoken toll opponent has modified his position, sort of. City Room reports: [Weiner] said on Monday that making new tolls — which he would set at $4.15 — payable only by non-...

As we move to the next square on the calendar you're still out there trying to make a connection. Sadly you let most of them slip by without saying a word. We understand, no one wants to be overzealous and get shot down. If only you had some place to find a second chance. Oh yes, Missed Connections ...

Filed under: Food and Drink, Stories, Ecuador, Travel Health It all started with a paper I wrote in college. The class was Criminal Law, and our final assignment was to write an opinion on a pending U.S. Supreme Court case, Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficiente Uniao Do Vegetal , which posed th...

While Barack Obama disses the closest of US  allies, by both returning a bust of Winston Churchill, as well as barley acknowledging Gordon Brown’s visit, it appears that he is snuggling up to sworn enemies of the US. Kind of odd diplomacy, isn’t it? With news that Obama plans on lighten...