Only NFL owners can punish one of their own
“Deflategate,” the professional football scandal surrounding the 2015 Super Bowl champion New England Patriots using partially deflated...
American Exceptionalism II
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived in the Bay Area today and, to quote one of the Clintons, “I can feel his pain.” I feel it...
Get the presidents off our money
A growing number of people are becoming aware of the national movement to replace Andrew Jackson’s face on the $20 bill with the face of...
Let's hear it for the 25-hour day and the eight-day week
The Huffington Post called my attention to a study today commissioned by the Pac-12 Conference schools to assess the time demands on...
Esse quam videri
On many, if not most, issues, I’d rather North Carolina follow its most famous public university’s lead. The state would be a better...
American Exceptionalism
The parents of Mrs. Oliver’s students at Evergreen Elementary School – and in some cases their grandparents – get us out of jams with...
What's a poor guy to do?
It’s amazing how our society criticizes needy people for having needs and yet works so hard to block their every avenue of escape from...
Viral video makes us feel too comfortable about police killings
The video below of black motorist Will Stack, who was stopped for a traffic violation in South Carolina, has gone viral with hundreds of...
Four years after Japanese tsunami, debris still arriving on West Coast
Last August I sent out a newsletter headlined "Surf City USA" about a vacation stop in Crescent City -- California's tsunami magnet -- on...
My Fling With a Radiation-Spewing Robot
I had the good fortune to discover I had prostate cancer in 2003 -- "good fortune" because it was found early and almost by accident. The...