Not too long ago, on the outdoor-shopping-mall-like 86th street in New York City---chain stores everywhere---Barnes and Noble opened a new store. Enormous, wide aisled (a rarity for stores in the…

The giants, and also the midgets, of fashion are chirruping that "Hats are backs!" These fine people, who are ever discovering new ways of cladding themselves in black, are wrong.…

Most, with good reason, misremember the quotation. In entirety: For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the…

Ambrose Bierce, as usual, summarized it best for us in the Devil's Dictionary: ACADEME, n. An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. ACADEMY, n. (from academe). A modern…

Thanks to computers---those modern saviors of mankind!---students returning to campus this fall needn't return at all. Yes, sir: they will be able to "attend" class by staying home, ready to…

The election is over and, in large measure, the populace once more voted to continue voting itself funds taken from "other" people. Oh, sure, in some areas like Florida, the…