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Since the "Lost" finale, I've been thinking about memorable TV show finales. Apparently I'm not alone. I googled "mem...

Back in October, I wrote a post about how the TV show "Lost" would end . I had no predictions, given that I was not a steadfast fa...

CBS Sunday Morning had a Mo Rocca segment today on comedians and actors who perform dramatic readings of celebrity writing in a New York the...

In my last post , I tried to get all philosophical about the ridiculous cost of private colleges, and how this is going to push out more cre...

Just finished the Smithsonian magazine article on Wayne B. Wheeler , the forgotten man behind Prohibition. Though the story was full of inte...

I loved A Wrinkle in Time when I read it in elementary school—I still list it among my favorite books of all time. To read about an awkward...

In the early 90s, when I was working at the U.S. General Accounting Office, I sometimes brought a bag lunch from home and took it down to th...

After my last post , in which I tsk-tsk-ed the appropriateness of Lady Gaga's videos for her tween/Nick Kids' Choice fans, and I had...

Last week, while casting her votes online for the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, my daughter chose "Papparazzi" by Lady Gaga...

In a post last February, "On getting free HBO for a month," I described the HBO program "Real Sex" and made the startlin...