The Philosopher's Stone

The comedy of errors called the Republican Primary is over, the actual major league baseball season has begun, and it is time to bank the fi...

Google has completely revamped its Blogger system, which I find massively irritating because things I used to be able to find are now hard t...

This morning, after I had eaten my lemon poppy seed muffin at the Carolina Cafe and solved the NY TIMES crossword puzzle, I took a moment ...

Most of you, I would imagine, have heard of something called "crowdfunding, a technique for using the web to raise investment capital f...

A well-wishing reader suggests that I patronize bookstores instead of Amazon.com in order to help slow the seemingly unstoppable death of th...

I have come down with a cold and sinus infection, and my doctor says I ought not to take long plane trips under those conditions, so our Par...

Contrary to what everyone says, it is actually possible to learn something by watching television.   Case in point:   I was watching Chuck T...