Rhyme Of The Day

Here's a story about a woman with an artificial heart that doesn't pulse . The pump just continually spins the blood through her bod...

Some people think my enjoyment of endurance sports is crazy. But if you want crazy, I give you Jure Robic: Over the past two years, Robic, w...

Our president is throwing his weight behind Chicago's Olympic bid. He's even traveling to Copenhagen, to help us clear that last big...

I ran a half-marathon this morning. (In 2:01:43, for those who want to know.) They called it a mini-marathon. Then, apparently because I was...

We saw Mikhail Baryshnikov dance tonight with Anna Laguna. At 61 he's still amazingly graceful with awesome control. I admired the skill...

As I discovered today, Walter Kaufmann mentions *est* more than once in his scholarly 3-volume work, The Discovery of the Mind. *est* is th...

A fine is not a tax. A mandate is merely a nudge. I get the sense the truth is being fudged.

I took this great-looking, wonderfully illustrated book out of the library, by Rita Carter , about one of my favorite things: The human brai...

I am amazed at this "read the bill" petition . It makes an outrageous demand - that legislators read the bills before they vote on...

I am so tired of politics. Like a lot of people, I wish I didn't have to pay any attention to it. Yeats wrote: How can I, that girl stan...

The National Endowment for the Arts has been around since 1965. But never before has the organization been caught pushing a specific politic...

Did the National Endowment for the Arts think it was fine to request that artists toe a political line ?

David Ramsay Steele gave a very interesting presentation on Belief Systems. He used this term very broadly, with no intended negative connot...

Tonight we saw " Rod Blagojevich: Superstar ", which was very funny. Governor Rod had a great facade. But he blabbed on the phone ...

So you want a right to health care? I'm glad to hear it, friend. We've bundled up a bunch of laws To help you meet that end. A frien...

U.S. colleges - dare they venture intellectually into the Great Unknown? Mark Lilla, of Columbia, writes: The unfortunate fact is that Ameri...

I keep hearing, from the left, including former-prez Jimmy Carter , that the anger against the current prez, and his policies, is somehow ra...

I see the House Democrats are moving to "censure" that guy who shouted "you lie" at the President. Censure is a sort of...

George W. Bush: "Look, I know this probably sounds arrogant to say," the president said, "but I redefined the Republican Part...

I just read Cyrano again. I love this play. It was pushed some weeks later into our book club schedule, and I'm taking advantage of the ...