It must be loads of fun to be a woman living in rural Pakistan.  That’s where you can get stoned to death for marrying against your family’s wishes or strangled to death by your husband if he would rather be married to another woman.               Those realities came to light over the course of […]

              As a baseball fan, I am often amazed at how exciting a particular game can sometimes be.  Of course, all sports offer this kind of edge-of-your-seat experience, but a baseball game, because it isn’t controlled by a clock and can only be decided when that last out has been recorded, is that rare sport […]

              An investigative report by Bill Vlasic of the New York Times (published on the front page of the paper’s Sunday edition this week) suggests that in-house lawyers for General Motors counseled the company to keep from the public the fact that the company was investigating claims that defects in its ignition switches had caused […]

              I’ve always been content to have been born in the United States.  It’s a fine country for the most part, and I have enjoyed a good life, albeit not without some personal travails along the way, for all of the years that I have lived in it.  I’m sure there are other countries that […]