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I wrote recently about the crushing debt that burdens Americans so that, for example, a bit more than 12 percent of American families spend...

He writes some common sense about "portgate." Here's the beginning of the column: Ports Furor Is Just Protectionism, With a F...

We all know that the assets of American homeowners have grown substantially as housing prices have escalated over the past few years. Now a...

This is the fifth set of entries from the diary of Lady Shelburne, written in 1766-69. Here are links to the others: first , second , thir...

{click to enlarge} This guy came into my life at the wedding of my sister-in-law in the early '70s. It was altogether a fine occasion. ...

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The Liverpool football club (British professional soccer team) are playing an important match tomorrow (Sunday, Feb 26). As BBC Sport puts ...

I do a "Friday Quotation" for the blog I run at work. I'm cross-posting this week's provocation from William Gass: Michae...

G. Peter Browne, J.P. Donleavy, and E.A. Blair I've been thinking about my major professor in Madison where I did my Master's. He l...

Things have been happening at work this week, making this relevant: I hope it's not illegal or improper to reproduce this strip. It com...

I can't always bike to work. Friday I had to go to the HMO lab for blood work in preparation for my annual health assessment next week....

Arts and Letters Daily hardly ever fails to interest. Here are three reasons to check in periodically: We had a Neflix of the 2004 film, H...

For quite a while I've wondered what's been sustaining the US economy. Why haven't American businesses overextended themselves, ...

Here is a description of Birmingham and its industry written by Lady Shelburne and her husband in May of 1766. This is the fourth set of en...

You may have seen reports of a new Turkish film which depicts an act of callousness (I would like to think unpremeditated callousness) by th...

Tomorrow is the 150th anniversary of the death of Heinrich Heine. I know his work best via the famous Dichterliebe cycle of Robert Schuman...

The Post-Boy , attributed to John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester 'Son of a whore, God damn you, can you tell A peerless peer the readi...