Alas Babylon

Last night, at the Miss Universe contest in Mexico City, the audience apparently booed when Miss USA was being interviewed as one of the finalists. Perhaps we’ve been too unfair to Mexico? Not spending enough tourist dollars? Too hard on

Here’s a line I used yesterday in opening a speech with 70 harried, type A executives: “You will have those cell phones and Huckleberries with you for the rest of the day and, probably, the rest of your lives. You

At church yesterday the priest commented on the deacon’s homily, which included St. Stephen being stoned. “If those were Yankee pitchers,” he said, “St. Stephen would be alive today.”

I’m suggesting here in this public forum that everyone must sign up for Prehabilitation (Prehab) so as to avoid the more costly Rehabilitation (Rehab) which seems to have become de rigeur for all kinds of transgressions, real and imagined. Not unlike