The episode began at a dinner to celebrate an author’s newest book being published. The author stands to thank the dinner guests and his editor starts trashing him, the book and everyone else. Then he apologizes, starts bleeding from his nose and collapses. House enters his office to find the ...

It seems that every political argument I make now is followed by the refrain "it's been a long 8 years." Obama's health care policy will lead to a healthier populace...it's been a long 8 years. McCain's economic policy of shifting social safety nets to the private sector is...

Change. That’s what it’s all about this year, isn’t it? Well, at least that’s what has been grabbing our attention both in Malaysia and abroad. Regardless of whether it’s A New Dawn For Malaysia or Change We Can Believe In, change seems to be the theme of the day. And, somehow, most people...

As Rowe mentioned downblog, he and I recently had the chance to see The Birth of Freedom, a one-hour documentary produced by the Acton Institute. The aim of the film was to illuminate the Christian ancestry for the freedoms of the modern West, and to suggest that if we do not keep this ancestry in m...

I wasnt the best academic student in the world. I went to college, and I graduated, but I spent the majority of my time interacting with people rather than in the classroom. I think thats why I like Sociology so much, and in particular, Organizational Studies, which at the time, was a new inter-disc...

Sometimes I feel like a motherless childA long long way from homeA long long way from home -- Traditional Negro Spiritual Fish and I debate the dependent relationship between the masses, entrepreneurs and capitalists. We began this debate in the context of who needs whom with regard to electoral pol...

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/05/08/iraq.deathpenalty/index.html I think going into Iraq in the first place was a mistake. I am fairly if not completley convinced that we did know their were no WMD's to begin with, and this is was certainly not motivated by all the great stuff we were told tha...