At halftime, when the score was still 1-1, I was gearing up to write an embarrassingly gushing post about our brave young band of second stringers and their glorious performance against Argentina’s A team. But Messi, Tevez, and Co. ended up winning 4-1 (although the U.S. team certainly never embarrassed itself). So I will quote [...]

Someone calling himself The Epicurean Dealmaker has determined that I need to “spanked” for something I wrote Wednesday, and it pains me to admit that this TED is right. Actually, it doesn’t pain me all that much to admit that he’s right, since the opportunity to have my more ill-considered arguments swatted down by knowledgeable [...]

Because I know that what readers of this blog really want to see is photos of flaming trucks on the New Jersey Turnpike, I pulled out my camera phone when this vista appeared before me during an automotive voyage to the Garden State this morning: Disappointingly, the flames were no longer raging by the time [...]