So by now you’ve heard of the mosque planned for two blocks from the former site of the World Trade Center in New York – you know, the one Sarah …

I’m actually glad I didn’t buy an iPhone 4.0.
And I’m not even being facetious.
Did you see how “Apple Offers Free Cases to Address iPhone Issue” and that Apple even admitted …

You probably saw late last week Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele called the country’s conflict in Afghanistan “a war of Obama’s choosing.” Here’s the New York Times piece: …

Gail Collins had an interesting op-ed in the New York Times last week: “The Rise of the Richies“.
Made me think of Maine’s own Les Otten.

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The New York Times City Room blog had a neat post the other day, “High Above Queens, the Dirt Is Deep, and Good.”
It’s a 40,000-square-foot farm on the roof of …

Wow, I just saw this article at the New York Times “Coffee to Go That Brews While You Carry It.”
It’s a fully-recyclable single-use French Press cup called the “XPress cup” …

Fascinating article in the New York Times the other day about the languages that are more commonly heard in New York than anywhere else in the world, even from where …

Yep, the ‘Armani Hotel Dubai’ opened this week in Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building: “Armani Debuts in Dubai.”
Wonder how tough it’ll be nowadays to fill those 160 rooms …

Another cool Freakonomics blog from the New York Times: “A New Kind of Starting Pitcher?”
The suggestion is start a baseball game with “the Opener”, kind of like a closer, someone …

Again with the Freakonomics blog on the New York Times: “An Important Human Right.”
Subsidized vacations for citizens over 65, kids between the ages of 18 and 25, and families facing …

Months that should be summer’s prime,
Sleet and snow and frost and rime.
Air so cold you see your breath,
Eighteen hundred and froze to death.
Oh that Freakonomics Blog at the New York …

The Freakonomics blog over at the New York Times had a good post yesterday about money in the United States – specifically what to do with the dollar bill and …

The Freakonomics blog over at the New York Times is always an interesting read.
The other day they had a good post about the speed limit, and how, according to a …

I feel the New York Times is missing half a headline today: “Large Hadron Collider Finally Smashing Properly; Black Hole Imminent.”
Ten bucks says they create a strangelet and we all …

Articles like this make me want to throw up: “Overqualified? Yes, but Happy to Have a Job.”

I talked about Social Security’s woes back in January and August of last year (None Too Secure and None Too Secure (part 2)).
But it’s a whole lot worse now: “Social …

I love the New York Times interactive timelines. Here’s one that’s just fantastic: “A History of Overhauling Health Care.”

Have you seen this yet: “Spitting and Slurs Directed at Lawmakers?”
Tea Party protesers apparently spit on House of Representative members, yelled gay slurs at Barney Frank and the “N-word” at …

I’m still mulling over Susan Jacoby’s Op-Ed from yesterday’s New York Times: “One Classroom, From Sea to Shining Sea.”
Jacoby’s The Age of American Unreason is a brilliant book, but I’m …