Richard's Pretension

Successful generals are rarely specialists. More often they are well-read, well-rounded polymaths. More than a few are good writers of histo...

In the past year, so many things went wrong with the economy at once that economic theory itself has been shaken. After all, most leading ec...

I refer to the Carolyn Jones version rather than the Angelica Huston. I could say simply that she is beautiful, feminine, unconventional, pa...

Another month lurks just the other side of this weekend. September has its share of annual events: Labor Day, the new school year, the autum...

While channel surfing last night, I noticed an ad for bootycall.com. What caught my eye was not the ad content but rather its presence on a ...

While slipping into my player a DVD of "I Married a Monster from Outer Space" (1958) the other night, the thought struck me (along...

Musical taste is immensely affected -- not quite, but almost, determined -- by one's generation. I'm referring to popular music here...