Alas Babylon

At the Emmy Awards the other night, Katherine Heigl, an actress on “Grey’s Anatomy” who won an award for supporting actress, managed to say “s _ _ t” when her name was announced—she said it to her mother, of all

We ought to stop kidding ourselves about “glass ceilings.” The real problem is “glass walls,” and women (and minorities) don’t seem to get it. Organizations have promoted women and minorities into the donjon, the inner sanctum, but only in areas of

For the past several years we've had less fish in the large pond than ever before, and those remaining are quite small fish. There is evidence that one of our two very big snapping turtles has died. We also have

This is a non-partisan article, spawned by campaign rhetoric that should be making most of us queasy, including people who build McMansions and claim they are the champions of ending "two Americas." This is from Investors Business Daily of a

I am a practicing heterosexual. I’ve been in the rest room of O’Hare Airport between flights and been propositioned by men. Of course, I’ve also been propositioned by men at the bars of some of the best restaurants in New

I was out on my errands today and realized it was lunch time and I was famished. However, it was teeming more than Noah could imagine, and I was dressed in raggedy shorts and a tee-shirt. Fine dining was out.

Here is just one verbatim excerpt from another PR "expert" apprising all of those on her mailing list (and anyone she can find—I never asked to be on her list and never heard of her before, so this is spam)

Immediately after the horrible bridge collapse in Minneapolis, I began receiving blast emails from PR firms advising me that “experts are wanted” for media interviews. Apparently, we were to apprise the PR firms of our availability, because psychologists, grief counselors,

Famous lines from the lovely Maria: 1. To a woman flirting with me at a convention, while Maria was standing next to me: “Save your breath, Alan prefers women with less facial hair than he has.” 2. To a woman protesting my

Our pond here is about two acres, fed by a small river, with an outlet over a waterfall that leads to the bay a half-mile away. Today, alone, aside from the usual geese and ducks, we had a double-breasted cormorant,