Since I discovered I was just two degrees separated from Paula Deen, I thought I’d channel her this weekend when I was preparing our picnic lunch. Well, sort of. We had packed all sorts of sports equipment – balls, mitts, Frisbee – and a blanket to sit on. I wanted the food to be just as thoug...

TRACE aka Devlin Tracy. He operates out of Las Vegas as a very private investigator. The giant insurance company that employs him is willing to overlook his drinking, his gambling and his womanizing for one reason: No matter how dirty and dangerous the job, he gets it done. Now his part-time hooker ...

But contrary to the above is the view of a writer, Sam Schulman, who calls calls Barack Obama a Hamlet in an astringent Weekly Standard piece.  Calling President 44 "a 20th century liberal of a very conventional type: incurious, superior and vain," Schulman writes that like Hamlet 44...

Rebecca: We're doing an Iraq roundtable tonight and we'll do one next Friday as well as part of the lead up to the March 19th actions.  We've done two roundtables already in recent weeks and  participating tonight are The Third Estate Sunday Review 's Ava,  me, Rebecca of Sex and Poli...

I’ve been running every day. Two beautiful days in a row here in the Windy City. I enjoy every minute of it. I sat down with a lawyer today. I’ve decided to take CX to court for child-support. I just couldn’t sleep at nights. Why should he be excused from taking responsibility? It’s not goin...

Friday 6 March IRELAND'S EYE - CHELTENHAM Today we will continue our ongoing search for value at the Festival where we look at the Christies Foxhunters Chase and the Fred Winter Novice Hurdle. The complexion of the Foxhunters market will change if the handicapper goes with the handicap system and/or...

"Predicting Gambling Behavior From Sixth Grade to Kindergarten Impulsivity: A Tale of Developmental Continuity," is a mouthful. It's also a new report in the Archives of Pediatrics And Adolescent Medicine that links restless elementary school kids to adult gambling problems later in life: ...

See the video and transcript or audio. Good evening. Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, Lt. Governor, Madam Chief Justice and members of the court, members of the Cabinet, members of the Legislature, honored guests, and my fellow Floridians. Good evening to you all. I want to recognize my family seated in ...

By: Dennis Cook Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit by Allison V. Smith Naming one's album after themselves and their band has connotations as thick as any title. Without some other context one is left to assume that what they put on the stereo is representative of something central and true about the ban...

Monday 2 March COUNTDOWN: As we count the days to Cheltenham, Daqman is counting down to his 200th successful lay. One more yesterday leaves him with only nine to go. He wants the 200 before the start of the Flat but he wants to retain his 75% strike rate. Watch this space. Today Daqman names the st...