Wash Park Prophet

Business columnist Al Lewis explains an incident that illustrates that Joe Coors is one of the most gullible millionaires on the planet, ma...

Colorado State Ballot Issues in 2012 There are three state ballot issues this year in Colorado. * Vote Yes on Issue S. Issue S would...

A classified American-Canadian flying saucer military aircraft program that dovetails neatly with the Hollywood stereotypes from the Roswell...

As I noted in a post earlier today, secular Americans are most common in the West, then the Northeast, then the Midwest, and then the South....

A new survey by the Pew Forum On Religion and Public Life profiles the rising ranks of the religiously unaffiliated (eighty page pdf with t...

David Hackett Fischer's opus, "Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways In America" (1989), a self styled "cultural histo...

I had back surgery (successful) on Monday (once again, the lesson learned: piano movers are worth it).  Recovery is a tricky thing. One mom...

A fire at a Japanese factory that is one of the only factories in the world to make large supplies of a critical resin used in most of the ...

The going rate for iron ore in the international commodities markets is $105 (U.S.) per metric ton. At that price, 40% of China's iron m...

There are multiple general strikes planned in Europe for tomorrow, something I learned of here.   The successionists movement in Catalan S...

Six weeks before election day, a host of recent, state level opinion polls favor Obama over Romney in November 2012 Presidential race, desp...

My uncle, Dale Siegler, died the evening of September 19, 2012, at a not unnaturally young age, after many months of struggling with a serio...

NALP just announced that the median salary for first year associates in Big Law has dropped from $160K to $145K. . . . We are now back to to...

Five years after the housing bust that triggered the financial crisis that in turn produced the worst U.S. recession since the Great Depress...

Mitt Romney’s characterization of 47% of the American electorate as “victims” who are “dependent on government” and refuse to take “persona...

As a public service, I thought I'd pass along this bit of practical guidance. Q: Have you ever had your heart broken . . . ? A: Yeah...