In St. Lucie, I spent time talking with the team’s top prospects, who set up inside Tradition Field to sign autographs and talk with fans. To watch the three-minute video of me talking with Dylan Owen, Reese Havens, Ike Davis and Brad Holt, who had more faith in my ability to hit 80 mph on the...

Singapore will introduce new legislation that will make it harder for foreigners to evade taxes back home by hiding their money in bank accounts in the city state. Singapore will “assist (other countries) on bona fide requests for information�, the Finance Ministry announced on Friday. The annou...

A few weeks ago I spent a better part of an hour dumping out about $500 worth of alcohol down my drain.  Most people would think I’m nuts, but I had to do it. It was time to face the cold hard facts - I’m getting old, my health is in the toilet.  Let me tell you a story about The Girl ...

Filed under: In Sixty Seconds Eric Vellend outlines the paper-thin and delicious art of phyllo pastries. Bitchin' Kitchen's cookbook gets a bad review and a garlic-adapted recipe for Mediterranean Chickpea Stew. If you wonder about small, farm-raised pigs, check out this rundown of Blue Haven Farms'...

Well, hot damn! Everyone seems to be on Twitter these days, including a ton of your favorite Porn Stars! By following their feeds, not only are you one click away from chatting with some of the sexiest chicks in the industry, you get to learn about what their lives are like when they're not, um, wor...

We hold no special brief for the now humbled Swiss banking giant, UBS, but one must feel some small sympathy for the continued public pain inflicted on them, no doubt with glee, by relentless congressional inquisitors on behalf of the U.S. Senate's resident anti-tax haven scold, Senator Carl Levin (...

As you read what follows, keep in mind the following dictionary definition: demagogue - noun, verb, -gogued, -goguing. 1) a person, esp. an orator or political leader, who gains power and popularity by arousing the emotions, passions, and prejudices of the people. 2)   to treat or manipulate (a po...

Since the election last November, (especially in the last two weeks since he took office), events are tending to make Barack Obama appear, not as the agent of promised hope and change, but more like the typical Chicago politician, (Rod Blagojevich most certainly excepted). What's more, when it comes...

Rumson-Fair Haven girls basketball player Kate Miller bagged her 1,500th career point — a school record — and coach George Sourlis notched his 500th victory, today's Asbury Park Press reports. The dual milestones came in the Bulldogs' 58-32 Shore Conference Class A Central win over Manasquan las...

Emergencies of any kind, especially major economic dislocations, are eagerly seized upon by statist politicians whose constant goal is the expansion of government power at the expense of individual liberty.   Whether the issue is the current "relief and recovery" boondoggle, trans-fat and caloric i...