Category: Current Affairs

  • Everyone is focused on the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11. TV shows, public events and story after news story remind us of what was lost and what was left. But today is also a day to remember. Ten years ago today was the last day before it all changed. The last day of calm on…

  • Tis the season for predictions, prognostications, suppositions and, let’s be honest, some downright guessing about what’s in store for next year. Rather than join the fray, following are 11 things that I boldly predict will not happen in 2011: — Print won’t disappear — Rupert Murdoch won’t get less creepy — Social media won’t cure…

  • (The following post originally ran Nov. 21, 2007, and has become a holiday tradition of sorts. For those who have read it before, please pardon the repetition — and for those who are reading it for the first time, I hope it serves as a reminder of what this holiday, and being human, is all…