Victor Davis Hanson on threats of the future: It would be naïve of us to think that a Venezuela, a Saudi Arabia, or an Iran will ever unite with us to stop such terror, when the direct result of such uncertainty is an enhanced position for their regimes and cash windfalls in the tens of… Continue reading

Why Yankees Manager Joe Torre is a class act: Someone mentioned to Torre in the dugout yesterday that the Yankees, by losing 9 of their previous 15 games, had given the Red Sox life. Torre interrupted this fellow in midthought to set the record straight. “They gave themselves life,” he said. “We won five of… Continue reading

Why Real networks is oh-so hip. Not. “Real is waging a grassroots battle where there is no grass. Apple is not Microsoft (MSFT). There is no sense of outrage among consumers. While it’s tempting to cast Steve Jobs as a scheming, egomaniacal villain, the fact is that most people love Apple and its hip products.… Continue reading

Superb crack-pot update in this missive from mathematical physicist John Baez: “After [Roger Penrose’s] talk, all the questions were actually harangues from people propounding idiosyncratic theories of their own, and the question period was drawn to an abrupt halt in the middle of one woman’s rant about fractal cosmology. But I bumped into the saddest… Continue reading

The long wait is officially over. Richard the Second is now available on DVD at Amazon.