Month: December 2013

Time for somebody to start a New Year’s diary. Haven’t starting drinking yet. Honest! But I’ll start with a toast to 2014. Welcome aboard, 2014, I’m thoroughly sick of 2013. Even if the year does start...

If there’s a great movie or two in the mix, it will be among those that I have yet to see: “Her,” “Nebraska,” “Wolf of Wall Street,” “Philomene,” and “American...

Maybe it’s because 2013 was such a stupid year but, as it comes to an end, I have been preoccupied with how incredibly paralyzingly stupid our country has become. Matt Taibbi appears to be having similar thoughts. Then, of...

The party that figures out how to convince young people that they have a solution to this will win elections until either the problem is solved or it becomes apparent that their solution did not work. The Institute for College...

Yesterday saw the first commercial flight from Key West to Havana in more than half a century. That so much time had elapsed between flights is a testimony to the idiocy of America’s foreign policy towards Cuba. Neither...