I'm not addicted to nicotine, so why do I have to participate in your drug addiction?

I'm not addicted to nicotine, so why do I have to participate in your drug addiction?

Given this is a swan song for Greenspan, I think it's going to be one more of these global topics. read more

Given this is a swan song for Greenspan, I think it's going to be one more of these global topics. There will be very little if anything that will give us any insight into monetary policy.

This bombastic announcement is open defiance of what the international community is asking from Iran.

This bombastic announcement is open defiance of what the international community is asking from Iran.

When all is said and done, what you'll probably see is some sort of negotiated settlement here, whether it's a read more

When all is said and done, what you'll probably see is some sort of negotiated settlement here, whether it's a breakup fee, or lower purchase price. Neither company has a strong interest in seeing this resolved in the court.

When we lost power to that whole computer room, the UPS didn't kick in like it should. Apparently, the batteries read more

When we lost power to that whole computer room, the UPS didn't kick in like it should. Apparently, the batteries in the UPS systems were not sufficiently strong enough.

We had a blast doing it. We went and knocked it out and came on home for the rest of read more

We had a blast doing it. We went and knocked it out and came on home for the rest of the holidays.

At some point the army is going to react and then the LTTE will retaliate. They have set in motion read more

At some point the army is going to react and then the LTTE will retaliate. They have set in motion a process. At some point the bubble is bound to burst and then we do not know what will happen.

What it triggers is the clock ticking. It just becomes a little more of a pressure cooker.... It's all stressful, read more

What it triggers is the clock ticking. It just becomes a little more of a pressure cooker.... It's all stressful, uncertain times.

Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and read more

Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function, but before they have been replaced with a totally new system of values. It represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and hybrid interregnum that might be called the last gasp of the past.