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I need to stop reading. The more I read, the more I concerned I get about the state of science and reason in our country. My friend sent me an article on a museum that offers dinosaur displays in a…

For those of you who love four (five, six, and seven) letter words as much as I do, consider yourselves victims of biology. That’s right — foul language seems to be a biological imperative. And here I was, scared shitless that…

Faith can be a wonderful thing. Blind faith, however, is pretty scary to me. When I read that 2/3 of the people in the U.S. want creationism (now marketed as “intelligent design”) given equal time in schools, it concerned me.…

Brown University is the 3rd happiest university in the country, according to the Princeton Review. I miss life in that particular cocoon. 🙂

Since Al Jaffe seems to be asleep at the wheel on the mispronunciation front, allow me to point out a very public mistake made by one of his employees. Josh Elliott is doing commercials for his new show on ESPN…

The New York Post‘s Phil Mushnick has a pretty interesting job; he berates the sports media establishment for a living. Although always sanctimonious, his articles are sporadically entertaining. However, if one makes a career of ripping others in one’s profession,…

Nike contact lenses? They’re coming to stores near you in a matter of time. And odds are that they will improve your chances of hitting a major league fastball as much as the old Nike pumps improved your ability to…

I think Joe Torre has done a wonderful job keeping an even keel during his tenure as Yankee manager. However – and this has been pointed out before – he was not exactly on the Hall of Fame managerial track…

So I helped a certain someone set up a blog and it has begun to consume her every waking thought. While it’s likely that the blog in question will not be up your alley if you’ve somehow stumbled here, I’ll…

The NY Times ran a good article about relief pitchers today that focused, in particular, on what it takes to close games. A couple of year’s ago, Red Sox GM Theo Epstein turned conventional wisdom on its head by fielding…