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× On May 21, Paul Krugman wrapped up a long argument that the European continent isn’t really in economic decline. With one exception: Europe, he writes, “can’t be sure that it will always have access to new technologies developed and...
Thank you to my local paper, the Lexington News-Gazette, for inviting me to write a monthly guest column this summer. My first commentary appeared last Wednesday and focused on Juneteenth. My small town hosted another wonderful...
Over the years, I've worked for organisations with various levels of risk tolerance for business travellers. Some have been (rightly) paranoid and others have been (wrongly) placid about the threats their employees face. The fact is,...
Plus: What the agency’s planning in the lead up to safe Apollo astronaut landings teaches us about preparing for the next frontier this century.
The disappointing, still ongoing story of the PRIDE pioneer that baseball did not want.
The Kate Rays is Kim Floyd’s current project. You can find the music she makes with Tony Chance on bass and Mark Hubbard on drums on Bandcamp. I recommend it. But I discovered some tracks on Soundcloud that predate The Kate Rays and that...
‘My enemy’s enemy is my friend;’ it may have started as a means to annoy Margaret Thatcher, the tabloid press and conservative society by banding together with a group equally reviled by the British Establishment, but the LGSM (Lesbians...
Rain starts at first light. A soggy dawn chorus soon subsides, leaving only the new Carolina wren with his exotic accent and enthusiasm. As the rain thickens, he too falls silent.
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger's The Enthusiast is that novel! It's even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Intelligent...