Overlooked in all the hoopla over the closing of Yankee Stadium: Incredibly, there was also no meaningful mention of Joe Torre, who managed the Yankees to four World Series championships and 12 consecutive trips to the postseason. The Yankees’ director of media relations, Jason Zillo, pointed out to reporters that many great Yankees had not… Continue reading

In his usual roundabout fashion, Steven Weinberg recalls what the Stoics pointed out: death smiles at us all; the best a man can do is smile back.(Apparently this is news to some.)

You know things are going better over there when the boys and girls in uniform have time to clown around.

Cold Reality for a Monday MorningJay Fitzgerald quite properly points with approval to this excellent piece by Doug Bailey, recalling the downfall of Boston area banks twenty years ago, and all from the same problems plaguing us now. There were lesser-known, though no less colorful, CEOs and executives that populated the banking landscape, all of… Continue reading

John Wilkins is getting increasingly fed up with Richard Dawkins. And I don’t blame him. Dawkins wants to set up a false dichotomy under which he and all his cobelievers are on the Good Side, the sensible side, the rational side. And yet, these rational brights can call all religion ignorant and stupid without needing… Continue reading