Yaw’ gonna DIE in there!

I’m watching a new BBC series, “Stephen Fry in America,” interested in seeing a look at my own country from the outside eyes. So far, it’s a pretty standard travelogue with short vignettes;  [more...]

Now, we all know that George W. Bush is a spectacularly uninformed person — he doesn’t read the papers or watch the news, he only seems to know what he is told. So, it’s hardly surprising that, as  [more...]

Here I am in Baltimore, getting ready for a foot-killing week on my feet at our annual conference. I actually wrote this entry on November 6, using the advance publishing feature so that there would be something posted  [more...]