There’s an old joke about a man alone and hopelessly lost in the woods. With darkness falling and desperation setting in, he sits down and mixes a Martini. Immediately, ten people show up to tell him he’s doing it wrong. …

  In the debate about guns and gun control I like to think I have a small advantage because I’ve been in the middle of gunfights and seen people shot to death … more than once.  The first time was in …

Everyone knows it’s possible to go the fruit and vegetable section of the supermarket and inject an apple with poison. But no one does because the world has to operate with a certain amount of trust and, after all, everyone …

My wife and kids have been at me to make a Christmas list to give them some idea what to do for me this year. So I sat down in front of the television with the stack of Christmas catalogues …

Just in time for the heavy breakfast season of winter, the State of Vermont is trying to ease the national confusion about maple syrup. The largest maple syrup producing state proposes to re-write the labeling of syrup so we all …

 Among the trivial subjects trending on Twitter in the past day were these: #ThingsGirlsSayAlot #Tom Brady #Andrew Luck #NASCAR Black Friday Roseanne Barr posted a picture of her luncheon dessert next to what appeared to be a Manhattan cocktail with …

The sport of bicycling has wiped out Lance Armstrong’s seven straight Tour de France titles in the continuing effort by sports authorities to re-write history. Now in the Tour records there is a seven-year gap, one year longer than the …

President Obama and Mitt Romney should suspend their political campaigns until the one issue that affects most Americans is resolved. It’s not the economy stupid, it’s the NFL officials’ lockout. Obama and Romney should declare a bi-partisan emergency effort to …

When I buy a newspaper at the airport the clerk always asks, “Would you like some candy or gum with that?” although I don’t in any way look like a man who chews gum. At the movies the kid behind …

I imagine that Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg is sitting at his laptop these days repeatedly hitting “refresh”, like his character in “The Social Network”, trying to connect with an old girlfriend. The real Zuckerberg is hoping that the next time he …