Of course you'd like to think that most of your daily conversation is weighty and witty but instead everyone chats about pedestrian nonsense with their pals. In fact, that ephemeral chit-chat is the stuff that holds human social groups together...
Many French intellectuals hate Barack Obama because they feel that too many people adore him, and with too much ardor...
President Obama, by contrast, employed smart psychology in the global club, even on small things, like asking other leaders if they wanted to start talking first at news conferences...
It's designed to be as simple to use as possible, so kids as young as 8 can get started building their own animations with minimal preparation...
The renegade clowns who ruined this economy, the Republican right in alliance with big business and some feckless Democrats, have no basis for waging war against efforts to get us out of their mess...
But Limbaugh has a fear of his own. If people see him purely as an "entertainer," as Steele suggested, he will be exposed for what he is: a clown with a very large audience...
Beginning well before the election, President Bush and his chief of staff, Josh Bolten, decided to make this transition different by removing many of the usual obstacles and fostering cooperation and harmony...
For just a few more weeks, though, [Obama] deserves none of the pre-emptive blame his less reasonable critics are trying to assign to him...
Apple is an Internet retailer and Netflix is a Web video rental service, but Hollywood treats them as if they are potential competitors to TV broadcasters...
Then came Roku's Netflix Player, the $100 video box that could summon more than 15,000 titles at no charge for Netflix subscribers...
In an election season of unlikely outcomes, Mr. Silver, 30, is perhaps the most unlikely media star to emerge...
Right now many commentators are urging Barack Obama to think small. Let?s hope he has the good sense to ignore their advice...
Palin's rise captivates us but nation needs a steady hand...
Senator John McCain has a very clear, long, and illustrious history of not supporting troops and veterans one bit...
Though Ketola has a reputation as a singer/songwriter in the Christian music community, she never expected that she'd leave her husband on their 17th anniversary, mind you, and take up with another man. On stage. In front of 20,000 people...
oh Karl...now that I've actually looked in detail around your website, I have yet another thing to distract me from my ever-pressing work at the federal government. Being rather challenged at writing and speaking english correctly (I'm an economist, remember), I especially enjoy the 'language' section of the website. I, too, have tried to decipher the closed captions while at the gym on a treadmill, and wondered what person was actually sitting back and writing that stuff in real time. There have been some real doozies (is 'doozies' a word?), but at least it gives you something to think about while you run endlessly on a three-foot wide piece of rubber.
Jul 8, 2004 ; 11:40 AM