The Stopped Clock

Since Sony contends that it's "stealing" to copy music from your own CD to your own computer, let's see how they instruct ...

Why are major media companies so eager to brand their customers as thieves ? Now, in an unusual case in which an Arizona recipient of an RIA...

With Peter Pan about to (once again) fall into the public domain, Great Ormond Street children's hospital is preparing for the loss of r...

A bit more on gift cards as excellent gifts... from the perspective of retailers : Wasted coupons will be chalked up as the shops' own...

The New York Times finally publishes something sensible on this subject, courtesy of an airline pilot. Six years after the terrorist attack...

I have long been of the opinion that the "FairTax" proposal is so insipid that it should be an automatic disqualifier for any Pre...

The Washington Post tells us , When it comes to health care, the way policymakers define the problem determines the answer they produce. Dem...

You could argue that Craig Barrett's editorial in the Washington Post demonstrates self-interest, as relaxed standards for bringing ski...

When the Washington Post says this : The common blind spot among the Democrats is Iraq. Eager to please a constituency that despises the war...

Chris Suellentrop quotes, with apparent approval, a blogger who believes that the Democratic candidates should emulate Mike Huckabee's r...

A peculiar editorial in the New York Times takes on rolling baggage . The author's primary concern appears to be that rolling baggage is...

I'm somewhat used to hearing people like Michael Erik Dyson argue that Bill Cosby is wrong to focus on social factors which contribute ...

Is George Will being deliberately obtuse ? Clinton is fluent in the language of liberalism, aka Victimspeak, so, denouncing "Wall Stree...

We had a comment troll stop by to ask, in a thread on a completely different subject, if I "still think" North Korea doesn't b...

Have you ever watched something that is so atrociously bad that it's kind of funny? Courtesy of the National Republican Senatorial Commi...

It's nice to see a politician speak with a bit of candor about his struggles with addiction . And given the number of addicts on Capitol...

For some reason, political candidates like to select theme songs for their campaigns. I don’t think that’s sufficiently democratic – even Hi...

I said " David Brooks got it right ", and probably set off some sort of shift in the cosmos leading to today's column , which ...

What a peculiar day for the New York Times editorial and op/ed pages. First we have a reaction to Mitt Romney's "Religion in the Pu...

Surprise! You heard it here second, folks. You heard it first from Professor Kingsley Browne , as another reason why women should not be pe...