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A friend of mine sent me P.J. O'Rourke's piece on Tuesday's election. He's a humorist, so he gets to exaggerate and generali...

Throughout the city one constantly meets costumed monsters roaming the streets threatening tricks and demanding treats.

We've now done 2 performances of Devilish Children . (That's me behind the scary duck mask.) I'm in the cast, which is great fun...

We opened Devilish Children And The Civilizilng Process last night. Things seemed to go well On our fearful and funny trip through child rea...

Tyler Cowen calls this video "1:49 of wow". Presenting the mimic octopus: Not content to be one shape, this octopus twists its fe...

Katie Couric likes to stay in touch: That’s why Couric has spent recent weeks in Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston and New Brunswick, New Jersey...

An Elizabethan poet asked: Who ever loved that loved not at first sight? But now we can improve upon that estimate: Researchers also found f...

Newsweek has a story warning Left and Right not to confuse Islamism with the Muslim faith: The left is wrongly defending Islamism—an extremi...

The Chicago Tribune has a sad story about a family caught up in the housing collapse. They thought they could qualify for a re-setting of th...

We had a great rehearsal tonight for Devilish Children And The Civilizing Process at Dream Theatre, which opens Thursday... like 5 days awa...

Another type of airplane passenger to worry about: A stowaway crocodile on a flight escaped from its carrier bag and sparked an onboard stam...

During the last great healthcare debate, I was always hearing how great the socialized healthcare was in France. Then there's this: A wo...

One more thing to worry about - death by acupuncture: A review of patients who died soon after acupuncture found a history of punctured hear...

Illinois Department of Natural Resources has a new requirement. If you kill a deer with you car, no matter how hungry you are, you must noti...

The squirrel runs from tree to tree high on a wire, where all can see but none can reach - safe from the dog who licks his chops and stares ...

You know to watch out for cougars and bears, but have you considered this deadly threat? Rangers in Washington state suspect an encounter wi...

Peter Berkowitz has an op-ed in the Wall St. Journal this morning. It ends like this: Those who doubt that the failings of higher education ...

German young women bicycle ballet gymnastics. It's sort of fantastic.

It's been an odd rehearsal pattern for Devilish Children , because the director got married to one of the actresses last week - and the...

A female Lebanese pop-star is murdered by an rich Egyptian politician. (They were an item, but his mom wouldn't let them marry, so the p...