“If you add up all the federal and you look at the disability and the unemployment and the Social Security and the state, my tax rate’s 62, 63 percent.  So I’ve got to make some decisions on what I’m going to do.” -Phil Mickelson, professional golfer Since turning professional in 1992, Phil Mickelson has made […]

It wasn’t the longest in history (not, in fact, by almost an hour), and it wasn’t the most boring, despite some jokes that fell flat and some presenters who were.  “The Oscars” (the new title for the annual Hollywood extravaganza that this year’s producers used to make the event sound less stodgy) was a little […]

Once again this year, the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have nominated not five, not ten, but nine films (because, you know, it just has such a nice ring to it) for the honor of best motion picture of the year just past.  And I will acknowledge freely that I […]

Were the 9/11 attacks that left almost 3,000 civilians dead an act of war or a criminal act? If you said an act of war, you probably would compare 9/11 to the Pearl Harbor attack as an unprovoked, surprise attack on the United States that was appropriately met with a declaration of war by the […]