We've become accustomed to the variety of birds populating the wooded parkland adjacent to our house . Mostly we see species common to r...

Never mind that Christine O'Donnell has shown the intellect of a bedpost and the integrity of Sarah Palin -- any candidate whose opening...

CNN fired nutjob Rick Sanchez last Friday, less than 24 hours after his flaky guest appearance on a satellite-radio show. Good riddance. T...

File this under "disappointing," cross-referenced to "not unexpected": "The Cincinnati Health Department will inve...

I'm a "None" -- like 34 million of my fellow Americans, I'm one of those people who checks " none of the above "...

They call it " the surveillance society ." By one estimate there are 4.2 million CCTV cameras in use in the UK -- one camera for e...

CNN's Larry King Live rarely is worth an hour of my time these days. Last night's show, a panel discussion on the state of educati...

I heard Josh Thompson's ballad on the radio yesterday and can't quite get it out of my head. Here's the music video . Clearly, ...

If you picked up this morning's edition of The Columbus Dispatch , maybe you saw the page-one article about the federal government'...

Our resident squirrels have been busy knocking bristly acorns out of the bur oak that towers over the back of our lot. We've also seen a...

In a news release issued last week, the National Bureau of Economic Research proudly announced: "...that a trough in business activit...

Four minutes into OSU's game with Eastern Michigan yesterday, the Buckeyes were up 14-0. The mismatch was official, the rout on. I did ...

(Stahler cartoons, The Columbus Dispatch )

When Stephen Colbert testified before your Committee today, the People weren't laughing with you -- not because you weren't laughi...

Ok, so my Monday didn't turn out so well -- a willing spirit lost to weak flesh -- but I still managed to come home with useful experie...

Over on the home page of Ohioans for Concealed Carry -- a good group, by the way -- is a thought-provoking commentary. In " Not-so-con...

Election Day is less than six weeks away. We, the People, seem to be in an anti-incumbent mood these days, seasoned with rhetoric about (or ...

In this New Normal, many Americans are enduring long stretches of unemployment or (so-called) under-employment. No matter who or where we ar...

...but I'm still enough of a motorhead to love this commercial .

When the Bobcats of Ohio University stepped out of the MAC and into The 'Shoe yesterday, no one gave them a chance to beat The Ohio Stat...