by Alan Bisbort | Aug 21, 2008 | News
It sounds like the plot to a new Monty Python Broadway musical, Spy-a-lot: You are a librarian in a quiet town. One day a government spy—played by Eric Idle sporting a greasy moustache and doing his nod-nod-wink-wink routine—hands you a "secret...
by our readers | Aug 21, 2008 | News
Unflattering ReviewsOnce upon a time an interviewer asked Louis Armstrong to explain jazz. Satchmo, with his characteristic good humor and rich, bass voice, replied, "Man, if I have to explain it to you, you ain't never gonna get it." The same can be...
by Mark Roessler | Aug 21, 2008 | News
Driving around the other day, I turned the radio dial. Mid-song, Johnny Cash's "I've Been Everywhere" came on, and from the car seat in back, my three-year old son demanded I start the song from the beginning. I explained I couldn't control the...
by Tom Vannah | Aug 21, 2008 | News
Oh, heavens, let's not offend the Chinese. Why not? In 1980, the United States was only too happy to boycott the Moscow games. But that was so 20th century. Nowadays we don't snub great nations like we used to—particularly not great nations to whom our...
by Stephanie Kraft | Aug 21, 2008 | News
High gas prices and the prospect of future energy supply problems are reviving support for nuclear power, but the foundation for a nuclear "renaissance" is turning out to be surprisingly weak. For years the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has warned that a...
