Filed under: Earnings reports, Conventions and conferences, Economic data, Federal Reserve After testifying before a Senate committee about AIG (NYSE: AIG) last week, the Fed's Ben Bernanke participates in a Council of Foreign Relations event Monday evening. Economic data due to be released this wee...

Haven't we really always known this? Maybe we're simply "too smart" for our own good and that of our kids. Several years ago, I coached a co-ed baseball team of 4th and 5th graders in the Texas Rangers' Rookie League. We played about 20 games during June each year. These kids had never played baseba...

Apparently, there's still something in Akron called the “Inventor's Hall of Fame�, more recently styled “ Inventure Place�. You may remember that; it was Akron's response to Cleveland's tossing away millions on the “Rock and Roll Hall of Fame�. Eerie similarity: Both “Halls� seem to ...

According to Superintendent David James, it’s not very good. Falling enrollment, from 34,000 in 1992 to 23,800 students today. That’s a 30% decline over the past 17 years. Union contracts. He’s hoping to get a one year extension of the current deal, and some cost relief on the benefits package...

Before I made my trip to Park City, Utah for the 2009 Sundance Film Festival I gave you a list of the 13 films I was most interested in seeing. And now that I’ve come and gone, surviving another year in the hustle and bustle of America’s great festival, it is my duty to bookend my covera...

Filed under: Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Independent, Romance, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sundance, Noir, Mystery & Suspense, IFC, Magnolia, Sony Classics, Distribution, Fox Searchlight (Warning: This one goes up to eleven...) 1. Moon -- Most were admittedly intrigued by the prospect of Sam Rockwell ...

Reading the text of President Obama’s first weekly address is a lot faster than watching the video, but here’s the video anyway: And here is the paragraph in the text that caught my eye: To ensure our children can compete and succeed in this new economy, we’ll renovate and modernize 10...

The second Friday at Sundance is a day when many observers have returned home. But the festival is not over, and our intrepid crew remains on the scene. Deals. The sight of Ashton Kutcher 's naked gigolo butt evidently convinced Anchor Bay Films that David Mackenzie's Spread was the movie for them. ...

Filed under: Sundance, Festival Reports, Cinematical Indie The second Friday at Sundance is a day when many observers have returned home. But the festival is not over, and our intrepid crew remains on the scene. Deals. The sight of Ashton Kutcher 's naked gigolo butt evidently convinced Anchor Bay F...

Yes, that is what public education is promoting with its indoctrination: The mother of a Wisconsin teenager was stunned when her high school senior brought home a questionnaire assigned by his English teacher that asked, among several provocative questions, "Is it possible that your heterosexua...