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"No Free Parking"      [09/05/2010]

The idea behind Congestion Pricing is to charge people more...Read More

"Michael's Marijuana Manifesto"      [08/28/2010]

I had an epiphany recently. It inspired me to try...Read More

"A Secret I've Been Keeping"      [08/22/2010]

Most of the people I've not met who recognize my...Read More

"Food and Sex"      [08/15/2010]

One is required to live. The other is required to...Read More

"Participatory Democracy in Bell, California"      [08/08/2010]

If there were such a thing as a Public Outrage...Read More

"Why I Wrote Reefer Gladness"      [07/31/2010]

My new book, coming out in a couple of months,...Read More

"Boycott!"      [07/24/2010]

Everybody is angry at the Gulf oil spill. Everybody is...Read More

"Australia, Going to Hell"      [07/11/2010]

When Julia Gillard became Australia's first female prime minister last...Read More

"Ode to 'Opening Night: The Improvised Musical'"      [07/03/2010]

Los Angeles is lousy with talent. Just as the plethora...Read More

"Three Theories on Chronic Lateness"      [06/26/2010]

Everyone is late sometimes. Stuff happens.

Some of us, though, are...Read More

"Father's Day"      [06/20/2010]

Look for the tender part hiding beneath the armor.

That's where...Read More

"World Cup"      [06/13/2010]

That the United States of America, China, Russia, or India...Read More

"Duty as a Citizen"      [06/06/2010]

Responsible citizens vote. In some European countries citizens are required...Read More

"Taking Responsibility for the Gulf Oil Disaster"      [05/30/2010]

We're all angry and disgusted and possibly horrified and shocked...Read More

"Letter to Craig"      [05/23/2010]

Dear Mr. Venter,

I read today that you and your team...Read More

"Villains Masquerading as Heroes"      [05/16/2010]

Warren Buffet. Haim Saban. Carlos Slim. Barry Diller. Jack Welch....Read More

"A Former Superior Court Judge Speaks"      [05/09/2010]

James Gray served as a Superior Court judge in Orange...Read More

"Mission to Mars"      [05/01/2010]

It’s a big universe out there. We’ve all looked skyward,...Read More

"Suckers"      [04/25/2010]

Casinos have a term for their customers. It's not nice,...Read More

"A Puzzling Conundrum We Invite You to Solve"      [04/18/2010]

When a metropolis wishes to attract a professional sports team...Read More

"To Be the Best"      [04/11/2010]

Is it possible to be the best at something in...Read More

"A Fun Little Easter Parable"      [04/03/2010]

Joe is a human being.

Joe is unsure if he is...Read More

"Marijuana Lies: Rebuttal Central"      [03/28/2010]

California could change the course of American History in November....Read More

"The Broken Contract"      [03/21/2010]

The deal is supposed to go like this: In a...Read More

"An Antidote for Depresssion"      [03/14/2010]

Plant a garden.

Dig up soil that previously hosted grass. Get...Read More

"The End is Near...for Selling Recorded Music"      [03/07/2010]

Before 1909, when technology changed everything, performing artists earned a...Read More

"Remix Manifesto"      [02/28/2010]

1. Culture always builds on the past. Whether it was...Read More

"Recipe for Destruction"      [02/21/2010]

If for some unknown reason you were committed to destroying...Read More

"Caloric Equality"      [02/15/2010]

Our finely developed sense of American vanity keeps us obsessed...Read More

"Super Thoughts, One for Each Quarter"      [02/07/2010]

The angry folks at Focus on the Family bought a...Read More

"An Opinion You Can Trust"      [01/31/2010]

The most irksome problem with the Blogosphere is that everybody...Read More

"Where the Money Is"      [01/24/2010]

Take a walk around your city’s downtown. Look at the...Read More

"The Time to Care About Disaster Victims"      [01/17/2010]

President Obama sent me an email a few days ago,...Read More

"Walking NYC"      [01/11/2010]

On the annual listings of "Greenest Cities in America," New...Read More

"Planning for the New Year"      [01/02/2010]

Those of us who suffer from Horizon Sickness -- always...Read More

2009——————————————————————————————————————————

"The Healthcare Fiasco and Market Capitalism"      [12/27/2009]  Read

"Let's Take a Trip"      [12/20/2009]  Read

"An Idea Worth Repeating"      [12/06/2009]  Read

"Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Rainbow Wednesday"      [11/29/2009]  Read

"Out of Step With the World"      [11/21/2009]  Read

"Underfed and Overpopulated"      [11/15/2009]  Read

"Chapter One"      [11/08/2009]  Read

"Doers"      [11/01/2009]  Read

"Art After 40"      [10/24/2009]  Read

"Misapprehensions"      [10/18/2009]  Read

"How I Did It"      [10/11/2009]  Read

"Congratulations to Mon David"      [10/04/2009]  Read

"Recommended Reading"      [09/28/2009]  Read

"Defining Cowardice"      [09/13/2009]  Read

"Belaboring"      [09/06/2009]  Read

"Poem: Flying"      [08/30/2009]  Read

"A Lesson from the Garden"      [08/23/2009]  Read

"The Immorailty of Discouraging Contraception"      [08/16/2009]  Read

"Frightening America Out of Healthcare Reform"      [08/08/2009]  Read

"The Inventory"      [08/02/2009]  Read

"How Passive-Aggressive Behavior Destroys"      [07/25/2009]  Read

"Jazz is Dead"      [07/19/2009]  Read

"The Morality of Greed"      [07/11/2009]  Read

"Congratulations, America"      [07/04/2009]  Read

"What Would Happen If...?"      [06/28/2009]  Read

"Baddest of the Badd"      [06/21/2009]  Read

"Ode to a Morning D.J."      [06/14/2009]  Read

"The Right Question"      [06/07/2009]  Read

"The Fable of the Fable"      [05/30/2009]  Read

"Memorial Day"      [05/24/2009]  Read

"Turning Rejection Into Acceptance"      [05/17/2009]  Read

"All Atwitter"      [05/10/2009]  Read

"Tough Questions"      [05/03/2009]  Read

"Flow"      [04/26/2009]  Read

"Unbelievable!"      [04/19/2009]  Read

"Badasses"      [04/12/2009]  Read

"A Modest Proposal: Criminalize Coffee"      [04/04/2009]  Read

"Next in Line at the Latrine"      [03/29/2009]  Read

"The Artist as Saint"      [03/22/2009]  Read

"Magnificent Obsessions"      [03/15/2009]  Read

"Department of I Tried to Warn You"      [03/07/2009]  Read

"Joy, and Its Absence"      [03/01/2009]  Read

"Paradox"      [02/22/2009]  Read

"Issues of Character"      [02/15/2009]  Read

"Barbara Morrison: An Appreciation"      [02/08/2009]  Read

"How Police Officers Make Themselves Easy to Despise"      [01/31/2009]  Read

"The Triumph of Vulgarity in Popular Singing"      [01/24/2009]  Read

"Sports"      [01/17/2009]  Read

"New Year's Haiku"      [01/04/2009]  Read

2008——————————————————————————————————————————

"Holiday Wishes"      [12/21/2008]  Read

"Six Fortune Cookies for the Zeitgeist"      [12/13/2008]  Read

"Too Big to Fail"      [12/06/2008]  Read

"Labis: Too Much"      [12/02/2008]  Read

"Getting it Wrong on Proposition 8"      [11/15/2008]  Read

"Reasons to Celebrate"      [11/09/2008]  Read

"Endorsement: Barack Obama for President"      [10/31/2008]  Read

"Jazz: Competing and Competing"      [10/26/2008]  Read

"The Healing Power of an Apology"      [10/18/2008]  Read

"Brooding on Death"      [10/11/2008]  Read

"Payment Due"      [10/04/2008]  Read

"Ignorance Triumphant"      [09/20/2008]  Read

"Ella Konik, 1993-2008"      [09/09/2008]  Read

"Great Writing"      [09/07/2008]  Read

"The Party of Change"      [08/31/2008]  Read

"Wine, Awards, and Telling the Truth"      [08/23/2008]  Read

"The Express Lane to Brilliance"      [08/16/2008]  Read

"Olympic Limericks"      [08/11/2008]  Read

"Buy American!"      [08/03/2008]  Read

"In Print"      [07/26/2008]  Read

"The Primary Benefit of Movie Previews"      [07/20/2008]  Read

"At the Pig Races"      [07/13/2008]  Read

"What You Didn't Know"      [07/06/2008]  Read

"A Vocational State of Bliss"      [06/28/2008]  Read

"Getting There"      [06/21/2008]  Read

"Burning Bright"      [06/15/2008]  Read

"Boom and Bust"      [06/07/2008]  Read

"A Modest Proposal for Solving Our Oil Problem"      [05/26/2008]  Read

"Tigran"      [05/18/2008]  Read

"The Gas Tax Holiday"      [05/11/2008]  Read

"Alcohol Versus Weed"      [05/04/2008]  Read

"The Ella Update"      [04/27/2008]  Read

"Poem: Henry Done Good"      [04/19/2008]  Read

"Protesting Business as Usual"      [04/12/2008]  Read

"Advice for Aspiring Artists"      [04/06/2008]  Read

"The Internet: A Safe Haven for Cowards"      [03/29/2008]  Read

"Gambling on Health Care"      [03/22/2008]  Read

"The Stigma of Prostitution"      [03/15/2008]  Read

"This Bud's for You"      [03/09/2008]  Read

"Numbers That Ought to Make Us Pause and Ponder"      [03/02/2008]  Read

"Reminder: He Doesn't Believe in What We Believe In"      [02/24/2008]  Read

"Tortured Logic"      [02/17/2008]  Read

"Taking Responsibility for the Mortgage Mess"      [02/10/2008]  Read

"The Morality Trap"      [02/03/2008]  Read

"The Alleged Los Angeles Jazz Community"      [01/27/2008]  Read

"Notes on Taking the Bus"      [01/20/2008]  Read

"Bob Popescu, R.I.P."      [01/13/2008]  Read

"The Political Odds"      [01/06/2008]  Read

2007——————————————————————————————————————————

"New Year's Resolution"      [12/30/2007]  Read

"A Christmas Wish"      [12/23/2007]  Read

"Newton's Law"      [12/16/2007]  Read

"Putting the Zing in That Swing"      [12/11/2007]  Read

"In Praise of Rhiannon"      [12/02/2007]  Read

"A Logic Problem"      [11/25/2007]  Read

"Cutting Scientology Some Slack"      [11/18/2007]  Read

"Key Numbers"      [11/12/2007]  Read

"The Tree Regarding Itself"      [11/05/2007]  Read

"Learning From the Fires"      [10/28/2007]  Read

"Tagging"      [10/21/2007]  Read

"Poker's World Championship on TV"      [10/14/2007]  Read

"The Impulse to Take Offense"      [10/07/2007]  Read

"A Dsytopia Called Nacirema"      [09/30/2007]  Read

"How the Media Feeds Us Our Cultural Rations"      [09/23/2007]  Read

"A Listener's Manifesto"      [09/17/2007]  Read

"How to Win at Football Betting"      [09/08/2007]  Read

"Congratulations to Mikey K!"      [09/02/2007]  Read

"Dog-Fighting"      [08/26/2007]  Read

"The Joy of Abetting Others"      [08/18/2007]  Read

"ESPN: The Gambling Network"      [08/11/2007]  Read

"Free to Be a Pedophile"      [08/05/2007]  Read

"America's Morality Tales: The Sporting Scene"      [07/29/2007]  Read

"A Modest Proposal for Saving the Planet"      [07/22/2007]  Read

"Sexism and Women's Athletics"      [07/15/2007]  Read

"The $10,000 Lottery Ticket"      [07/08/2007]  Read

"Sicko"      [07/01/2007]  Read

"The Hipness Equation"      [06/25/2007]  Read

"Fathers"      [06/18/2007]  Read

"Nature Hikes"      [06/11/2007]  Read

"On Being a Bolivian Monkey"      [06/07/2007]  Read

"On Hiatus"      [05/30/2007]  Read

"The New Pigs"      [05/24/2007]  Read

"Thinking Like an Anarchist"      [05/19/2007]  Read

"Gambling on the Future"      [05/13/2007]  Read

"The Myth of Democracy"      [05/05/2007]  Read

"Ella Fitzgerald: An Appreciation"      [04/29/2007]  Read

"Escaping Reality"      [04/22/2007]  Read

"Watch What You Say"      [04/15/2007]  Read

"Second Sunday in April"      [04/09/2007]  Read

"In the Company of Genius"      [04/02/2007]  Read

"The Power of Power"      [03/24/2007]  Read

"The Vegas Shell Game"      [03/18/2007]  Read

"Anthropomorphism"      [03/11/2007]  Read

"Good, Bad, and Ugly"      [03/05/2007]  Read

"Animals"      [02/24/2007]  Read

"On Hiatus"      [02/12/2007]  Read

"Learning to Live Underwater"      [02/05/2007]  Read

"The Super Bowl Pointspread"      [02/04/2007]  Read

"Vegas, Old and New"      [01/29/2007]  Read

"Punishing the Lookers"      [01/22/2007]  Read

"Astonishing Talent, Astonishing Anonymity"      [01/16/2007]  Read

"Fear and Whining in Las Vegas"      [01/15/2007]  Read

"Robert Rosenblum"      [01/08/2007]  Read

"Happy New Year"      [01/01/2007]  Read

2006——————————————————————————————————————————

"Borat"      [11/09/2006]  Read

"Morning in America"      [11/08/2006]  Read

"Election Day"      [11/07/2006]  Read

"New Yorker Caption Contest #73"      [11/06/2006]  Read

"Forgetting"      [11/03/2006]  Read

"Dissenting Toward the Truth"      [11/02/2006]  Read

"In the Year 2107"      [11/01/2006]  Read

"The Nicest Part of a Worship Service"      [10/31/2006]  Read

"New Yorker Caption Contest #72"      [10/30/2006]  Read

"Jailing by Example"      [10/25/2006]  Read

"Can a Leopard Change Her Spots"      [10/24/2006]  Read

"New Yorker Caption Contest #71"      [10/23/2006]  Read

"Good Writers"      [10/19/2006]  Read

"Quality Versus Quantity"      [10/18/2006]  Read

"Target"      [10/17/2006]  Read

"New Yorker Caption Contest #70"      [10/16/2006]  Read

"How to Be Happy, in Three Easy Steps"      [10/13/2006]  Read

"A Modest Proposal for World Peace"      [10/12/2006]  Read

"The Unsaid Part"      [10/11/2006]  Read

"Generation Next"      [10/10/2006]  Read

"New Yorker Caption Contest #69"      [10/09/2006]  Read

"Online Gambling"      [10/06/2006]  Read

"Measuring"      [10/05/2006]  Read

"Cultural Math"      [10/04/2006]  Read

"The Shame"      [10/03/2006]  Read

"New Yorker Caption Contest #68"      [10/02/2006]  Read

"Sandrine Pecher, 1970-2006"      [09/21/2006]  Read

"Observational Comedy, Part One"      [09/19/2006]  Read

"New Yorker Caption Contest #66"      [09/18/2006]  Read

"The World is a Safer Place"      [09/14/2006]  Read

"Much Ado"      [09/13/2006]  Read

"New Yorker Caption Contest #65"      [09/12/2006]  Read

"Five Years Later"      [09/11/2006]  Read

"A Tale of Two Singers"      [09/08/2006]  Read

"Angry Activist"      [09/07/2006]  Read

"Syllogism"      [09/06/2006]  Read

"Keeping Young Minds Pure"      [09/05/2006]  Read

"New Yorker Caption Contest #64"      [09/04/2006]  Read

"In Anticipation of Labor Day"      [09/01/2006]  Read

"Desifinado"      [08/31/2006]  Read

"The Tomato"      [08/30/2006]  Read

"Marine Layer"      [08/29/2006]  Read

"New Yorker Caption Contest #63"      [08/28/2006]  Read

"Two Years Without Big Gene"      [08/25/2006]  Read

"Sexless Marriage"      [08/24/2006]  Read

"Curious Haberdashery"      [08/23/2006]  Read

"At John's Funeral"      [08/22/2006]  Read

"New Yorker Caption Contest #62"      [08/21/2006]  Read

"The Price of Virtuosity"      [08/18/2006]  Read

"Flowering Trees"      [08/17/2006]  Read

"What is a Bluff?"      [08/16/2006]  Read

"Airport Security"      [08/15/2006]  Read

"The Promised Land"      [08/14/2006]  Read

"Bravo, Connecticut!"      [08/10/2006]  Read

"Our Penchant for Bombing"      [08/09/2006]  Read

"The Problem with Cirque du Soleil"      [08/08/2006]  Read

"New Yorker Caption Contest #61"      [08/07/2006]  Read

"Athletic Noise"      [08/04/2006]  Read

"Our Unusual Species"      [08/03/2006]  Read

"The Desk"      [08/02/2006]  Read

"Is There a Correlation?"      [08/01/2006]  Read

"New Yorker Caption Contest #60"      [07/31/2006]  Read

"Poker in Perspective"      [07/28/2006]  Read

"The Charity Enigma"      [07/26/2006]  Read

"Guzzling Taxpayer Money"      [07/25/2006]  Read

"New Yorker Caption Contest #58"      [07/24/2006]  Read

"Why Global Warming Goes Unnoticed"      [07/20/2006]  Read

"An Inconvenient Truth"      [07/18/2006]  Read

"New Yorker Caption Contest #58"      [07/17/2006]  Read

"Unlawful Internet Gaming"      [07/13/2006]  Read

"Insomnia"      [07/12/2006]  Read

"The Sadness of Zidane"      [07/11/2006]  Read

"In Praise of Lewis Lapham"      [07/06/2006]  Read

"The Abortion Quandary"      [07/05/2006]  Read

"Let Freedom Ring"      [07/04/2006]  Read

"New Yorker Caption Contest #57"      [07/03/2006]  Read

"Happy Birthday, Renice Konik"      [06/30/2006]  Read

"End Times"      [06/29/2006]  Read

"The Hair Conundrum"      [06/28/2006]  Read

"Eleven Reasons to Love the World Cup"      [06/27/2006]  Read

"New Yorker Caption Contest #56"      [06/26/2006]  Read

"Forgivable Language"      [06/22/2006]  Read

"Where I Went Wrong"      [06/21/2006]  Read

"A Fine Mess at the FCC"      [06/20/2006]  Read

"New Yorker Caption Contest #55"      [06/19/2006]  Read

"South American Travel Notes, Part Four"      [06/16/2006]  Read

"South American Travel Notes, Part Three"      [06/15/2006]  Read

"South American Travel Notes, Part Two"      [06/14/2006]  Read

"South American Travel Notes, Part One"      [06/13/2006]  Read

"New Yorker Caption Contests #53 & 54"      [06/12/2006]  Read

"On Hiatus"      [06/01/2006]  Read

"Fuel Protection"      [05/31/2006]  Read

"New Yorker Caption Contest #52"      [05/30/2006]  Read

"Memorial Day"      [05/29/2006]  Read

"Pay to Play"      [05/26/2006]  Read

"Sections of the Newspaper"      [05/25/2006]  Read

"The Need"      [05/24/2006]  Read

"The Power of Illogic"      [05/23/2006]  Read

"New Yorker Caption Contest #51"      [05/22/2006]  Read

"A Prayer for Ella Konik"      [05/19/2006]  Read

"Imitation"      [05/18/2006]  Read

"Respect"      [05/17/2006]  Read

"Why Entertainers Earn So Much Money"      [05/16/2006]  Read

"New Yorker Caption Contest #50"      [05/14/2006]  Read

"My Mom"      [05/12/2006]  Read

"Eats Like a Bird"      [05/11/2006]  Read

"The N Word"      [05/10/2006]  Read

"Daddy's Still Here"      [05/09/2006]  Read

"New Yorker Caption Contest #49"      [05/08/2006]  Read

"Grace"      [05/05/2006]  Read

"The Life Coach"      [05/04/2006]  Read

"Dealing With the Energy Crisis"      [05/03/2006]  Read

"Being Ready"      [05/02/2006]  Read

"New Yorker Caption Contest #48"      [05/01/2006]  Read

"American Idol Crib Notes, Part Two"      [04/28/2006]  Read

"The Big Gamble"      [04/27/2006]  Read

"Fairness"      [04/26/2006]  Read

"God's Responsibility"      [04/25/2006]  Read

"New Yorker Caption Contest #47"      [04/24/2006]  Read

"A Solution to Our Oil Problem"      [04/20/2006]  Read

"Hurry Up and Wait"      [04/19/2006]  Read

"Learning from Piracy"      [04/18/2006]  Read

"New Yorker Caption Contest #46"      [04/17/2006]  Read

"The Trade-Off"      [04/13/2006]  Read

"Flying"      [04/12/2006]  Read

"Age as a Number"      [04/11/2006]  Read

"New Yorker Caption Contest #45"      [04/10/2006]  Read

"Vocalizing Versus Singing"      [04/07/2006]  Read

"To Breathe"      [04/06/2006]  Read

"Why There's Value in the Underdog"      [04/04/2006]  Read

"New Yorker Caption Contest #44"      [04/03/2006]  Read

"The Mathematics of Jazz Music Programming"      [03/31/2006]  Read

"Symbols"      [03/29/2006]  Read

"Self Destruction"      [03/28/2006]  Read

"New Yorker Caption Contest #43"      [03/27/2006]  Read

"The Perspective of a Tiny Jazz Record Label"      [03/24/2006]  Read

"Linger"      [03/23/2006]  Read

"Street Cleaning"      [03/22/2006]  Read

"Colorblind Music"      [03/21/2006]  Read

"New Yorker Caption Contest #42"      [03/20/2006]  Read

"An Open Letter to Councilman Tom LaBonge"      [03/17/2006]  Read

"Arab Madness"      [03/16/2006]  Read

"Painter of Light"      [03/14/2006]  Read

"New Yorker Caption Contest #41"      [03/13/2006]  Read

"American Idol Crib Notes"      [03/10/2006]  Read

"On Not Getting Old"      [03/09/2006]  Read

"Moderation in All Things"      [03/07/2006]  Read

"New Yorker Caption Contest #40"      [03/06/2006]  Read

"Keeping the World Safe"      [03/03/2006]  Read

"What's Left Unsaid"      [03/02/2006]  Read

"The Tyranny of Democracy"      [02/28/2006]  Read

"New Yorker Caption Contest #39"      [02/27/2006]  Read

"Too Beautiful"      [02/24/2006]  Read

"Judging Athletics"      [02/23/2006]  Read

"A Fresh Coat"      [02/22/2006]  Read

"New Yorker Caption Contest #38"      [02/20/2006]  Read

"Waiting as a Social Bond"      [02/17/2006]  Read

"Why it's Important to Earn Large Amounts of Money"      [02/16/2006]  Read

"Rhetorical Questions"      [02/15/2006]  Read

"A Valentine's Day Tribute"      [02/14/2006]  Read

"English Peculiar"      [02/13/2006]  Read

"A Complicated Case of Stupidity"      [02/10/2006]  Read

"A Tale of Two Venues"      [02/09/2006]  Read

"A Punky Revelation"      [02/08/2006]  Read

"The Rolling Stones: I Can't Get No Satisfaction"      [02/07/2006]  Read

"New Yorker Caption Contest #37"      [02/06/2006]  Read

"The Tierney Sutton Band: An Appreciation"      [02/02/2006]  Read

"State of the Union"      [02/01/2006]  Read

"Urban Density"      [01/31/2006]  Read

"New Yorker Caption Contest #36"      [01/30/2006]  Read

"Philippines Notes, Part Three: Free Markets"      [01/27/2006]  Read

"Philippines Notes, Part Two: Using Dogs"      [01/26/2006]  Read

"Philippines Notes, Part One: Litter in Paradise"      [01/25/2006]  Read

"New Yorker Caption Contest #35"      [01/24/2006]  Read

"HIATUS"      [01/13/2006]  Read

"A Prayer for Sandrine"      [01/11/2006]  Read

"The Crash"      [01/10/2006]  Read

"New Yorker Caption Contest #34"      [01/09/2006]  Read

"The Prize Industry"      [01/06/2006]  Read

"Department of Trivial Inquiry: Eye-Blacking"      [01/05/2006]  Read

"To Kill a Mockingbird, Revisited"      [01/04/2006]  Read

"New Yorker Caption Contest #33"      [01/03/2006]  Read

"2006 Resolutions"      [01/01/2006]  Read

2005——————————————————————————————————————————

"The Ella Update"      [12/29/2005]  Read

"Doggerel"      [12/27/2005]  Read

"Putting Christ Back into Christmas"      [12/23/2005]  Read

"Cantankerous"      [12/22/2005]  Read

"The Beuty of Municipal Bonds"      [12/21/2005]  Read

"The Cooper's Hawk (with Apologies to Wordsworth)"      [12/20/2005]  Read

"New Yorker Caption Contest #32"      [12/19/2005]  Read

"Familiarity Breeds Contempt"      [12/15/2005]  Read

"New Yorker Caption Contest #31"      [12/13/2005]  Read

"My Friend, Mr. Z"      [12/09/2005]  Read

"The Strange Case of Stanley Williams, Icon"      [12/08/2005]  Read

"Quatrains"      [12/07/2005]  Read

"Go On"      [12/06/2005]  Read

"New Yorker Caption Contest #30"      [12/05/2005]  Read

"The Male Brothel"      [12/02/2005]  Read

"Friend Versus Fake"      [12/01/2005]  Read

"Iconoclasts"      [11/30/2005]  Read

"In Praise of Sarah Silverman"      [11/29/2005]  Read

"New Yorker Caption Contest #29"      [11/28/2005]  Read

"Giving Thanks"      [11/21/2005]  Read

"New Yorker Caption Contest #28"      [11/20/2005]  Read

"On the Passing of a Young Woman"      [11/17/2005]  Read

"The Latest"      [11/16/2005]  Read

"'tis Autumn"      [11/15/2005]  Read

"New Yorker Caption Contest #27"      [11/14/2005]  Read

"Friends"      [11/11/2005]  Read

"Pop"      [11/10/2005]  Read

"High"      [11/09/2005]  Read

"Evensong"      [11/08/2005]  Read

"New Yorker Caption Contest #26"      [11/07/2005]  Read

"A Backyard Report, With No Deeper Meaning Intended"      [11/04/2005]  Read

"Homonym"      [11/03/2005]  Read

"A Comforting Notion"      [11/02/2005]  Read

"Rosa Parks, Shirley Horn, and America's Enduring Schism"      [11/01/2005]  Read

"New Yorker Caption Contest #25"      [10/31/2005]  Read

"The Lords of Power"      [10/27/2005]  Read

"Three Haiku"      [10/26/2005]  Read

"Inequity"      [10/25/2005]  Read

"New Yorker Caption Contest #24"      [10/24/2005]  Read

"Shall I Stand"      [10/21/2005]  Read

"Family"      [10/20/2005]  Read

"Cleansing"      [10/18/2005]  Read

"New Yorker Caption Contest #23"      [10/17/2005]  Read

"Do We Really Believe in Education?"      [10/14/2005]  Read

"Eclipse"      [10/13/2005]  Read

"In Praise of Mr. Z"      [10/12/2005]  Read

"The Character of Flowers"      [10/11/2005]  Read

"New Yorker Caption Contest #22"      [10/10/2005]  Read

"Here, Then Gone"      [10/06/2005]  Read

"High Culture"      [10/05/2005]  Read

"Fast Food"      [10/04/2005]  Read

"New Yorker Caption Contest #21"      [10/03/2005]  Read

"Wrestling With Conundrums"      [09/29/2005]  Read

"Tumbling Toward Ecstasy"      [09/28/2005]  Read

"Consumption"      [09/27/2005]  Read

"New Yorker Cartoon Contest #20"      [09/26/2005]  Read

"Don't Go"      [09/23/2005]  Read

"New Yorker Caption Contest, #19"      [09/20/2005]  Read

"Never Let it End"      [09/19/2005]  Read

"Blessed"      [09/16/2005]  Read

"Rememberance"      [09/14/2005]  Read

"Toil"      [09/13/2005]  Read

"New Yorker Caption Contest #18"      [09/12/2005]  Read

"Fighting City Hall"      [09/09/2005]  Read

"A Prayer"      [09/08/2005]  Read

"Ode to Golf in Northern Ireland"      [09/07/2005]  Read

"The New Yorker Caption Contest, Redux"      [09/06/2005]  Read

"Hooray for Labor"      [09/05/2005]  Read

"The Humbling Storm"      [09/02/2005]  Read

"A Ditty (With Apologies to Ogden Nash)"      [09/01/2005]  Read

"The Battle"      [08/31/2005]  Read

"Bach"      [08/30/2005]  Read

"Religious Wackos"      [08/29/2005]  Read

"Why Golf on Los Angeles Municipal Courses Takes Forever"      [08/26/2005]  Read

"My Dad, One Year Later"      [08/25/2005]  Read

"What is This Thing Called Luck?"      [08/24/2005]  Read

"Mollusk"      [08/23/2005]  Read

"The Best Time to Think"      [08/22/2005]  Read

"Appropriations"      [08/19/2005]  Read

"Song of the Misanthrope"      [08/18/2005]  Read

"Suppositions"      [08/17/2005]  Read

"Gardening"      [08/15/2005]  Read

"Randomly Searching for Terrorists"      [08/12/2005]  Read

"Music"      [08/11/2005]  Read

"Ending"      [08/10/2005]  Read

"Flowers"      [08/09/2005]  Read

"New Yorker Cartoon Contest #14"      [08/08/2005]  Read

"Deciphering Intelligent Design"      [08/05/2005]  Read

"The Truth About Travel Writing"      [08/04/2005]  Read

"Time is Money"      [08/03/2005]  Read

"Jared Diamond: Television Phenomenon"      [08/02/2005]  Read

"The Blues Revisited"      [08/01/2005]  Read

"Alternate Captions"      [07/28/2005]  Read

"The Concept of Hell"      [07/27/2005]  Read

"Turning Poker into Wrestling"      [07/26/2005]  Read

"The Virtue of Saving"      [07/25/2005]  Read

"Betting"      [07/22/2005]  Read

"Golf Abides"      [07/21/2005]  Read

"Nothing But the Blues"      [07/20/2005]  Read

"Rhetorical Question"      [07/19/2005]  Read

"In Praise of Tim Hawkinson"      [07/18/2005]  Read

"The Appeal of Obsessives"      [07/15/2005]  Read

"Complaint Department"      [07/14/2005]  Read

"In Praise of Gopnik"      [07/13/2005]  Read

"Fishbowl or Shroud"      [07/12/2005]  Read

"The Word Fuck"      [07/11/2005]  Read

"The Joy of Pressure-Washing"      [07/08/2005]  Read

"Memo to Bono, Sir Bob Geldof, and the LIVE 8 Posse"      [07/07/2005]  Read

"Rewriting Science"      [07/06/2005]  Read

"Jailing Reporters"      [07/05/2005]  Read

"Doing the Right Thing"      [07/01/2005]  Read

"Cloning"      [06/30/2005]  Read

"Two Wars"      [06/29/2005]  Read

"A Logic Problem"      [06/28/2005]  Read

"On Making a Hole in One"      [06/27/2005]  Read

"An Interesting Fact About the NBA Champions"      [06/24/2005]  Read

"Poker.net"      [06/22/2005]  Read

"My New Ambition in Life"      [06/21/2005]  Read

"Enabling the Censors"      [06/20/2005]  Read

"Working Hard for Indolence"      [06/17/2005]  Read

"Celebrating Pedophilia"      [06/16/2005]  Read

"Hot Air"      [06/15/2005]  Read

"Debt Relief"      [06/14/2005]  Read

"States' Rights Up in Smoke"      [06/12/2005]  Read

"Notes on Peru, Part 3"      [06/10/2005]  Read

"Notes on Peru, Part 2"      [06/08/2005]  Read

"Notes on Peru, Part 1"      [06/06/2005]  Read

"Hot Air"      [06/05/2005]  Read

"Memorial Day"      [05/27/2005]  Read

"Why Spreading Goodness Matters"      [05/26/2005]  Read

"The American Idol Vote"      [05/25/2005]  Read

"You Can Never Do Enough For Some People"      [05/24/2005]  Read

"The Chase"      [05/23/2005]  Read

"Doers and Dreamers"      [05/20/2005]  Read

"The Next Mayor of Los Angeles"      [05/19/2005]  Read

"The Myth of Making It"      [05/15/2005]  Read

"Extinction"      [05/13/2005]  Read

"Acceleration"      [05/04/2005]  Read

"Finite Resources, Infinite Appetites"      [05/02/2005]  Read

"Being Allowed to Look"      [04/29/2005]  Read

"Bracelets"      [04/27/2005]  Read

"How Good is My Dog?"      [04/25/2005]  Read

"Full"      [04/22/2005]  Read

"Too Many Books"      [04/21/2005]  Read

"Basic Instincts"      [04/20/2005]  Read

"The Danger of Relativism"      [04/18/2005]  Read

"Hollywood and Poker"      [04/15/2005]  Read

"The Purpose Driven Life"      [04/14/2005]  Read

"Never Enough"      [04/13/2005]  Read

"How Many Books?"      [04/12/2005]  Read

"Why We Need Celebrities"      [04/11/2005]  Read

"What Makes a Hero?"      [04/08/2005]  Read

"Wanted: Holy Father"      [04/07/2005]  Read

"Happy Birthday to Ella"      [04/04/2005]  Read

"Low Carb, Low Perspective"      [04/01/2005]  Read

"The Power of Prayer"      [03/30/2005]  Read

"Fuel"      [03/28/2005]  Read

"Shooters"      [03/25/2005]  Read

"A True Friend"      [03/24/2005]  Read

"Raging Against the Age of Enlightenment"      [03/21/2005]  Read

"The Pot Calling the Kettle Black"      [03/18/2005]  Read

"Commuting"      [03/17/2005]  Read

"KKJZ Comes Through"      [03/16/2005]  Read

"A Paean to Springtime"      [03/14/2005]  Read

"Misplaced Outrage"      [03/11/2005]  Read

"Tasty Tuesdays"      [03/10/2005]  Read

"Funny Numbers"      [03/09/2005]  Read

"The Marathon"      [03/08/2005]  Read

"Letting the Patriot Act Fade into the Sunset"      [03/07/2005]  Read

"Handicapping the Oscars"      [03/02/2005]  Read

"Apologizing for Murder"      [03/01/2005]  Read

"Critical Acclaim or Paying Off the Mortgage?"      [02/24/2005]  Read

"American Idol's Essential Flaw"      [02/21/2005]  Read

"Remind Me Again. . ."      [02/17/2005]  Read

"The News from North Korea"      [02/15/2005]  Read

"A Tale of Two Newspapers"      [02/11/2005]  Read

"How To Make Millions of Dollars"      [02/09/2005]  Read

"Tolerating Hateful Fools"      [02/08/2005]  Read

"California's Hybrid Mistake"      [02/05/2005]  Read

"On Turning Forty"      [02/01/2005]  Read

"America's Greatest Export"      [01/31/2005]  Read

"The Power of a Story"      [01/12/2005]  Read

"New Year's Resolutions"      [01/08/2005]  Read

"Notes on La Boheme, Les Miserables, and Love"      [01/01/2005]  Read

2004——————————————————————————————————————————

"Thankful"      [12/01/2004]  Read

"What the Presidential Election Results Say About America"      [11/10/2004]  Read

"An Endorsement"      [11/01/2004]  Read

"Notes on the Third Presidential Debate"      [10/18/2004]  Read

"What Computers Teach Us About Free Markets"      [10/15/2004]  Read

"The Privilege, the Honor, the Responsibility"      [10/14/2004]  Read

"The Popularity of Poker on Television"      [10/13/2004]  Read

"Notes on the Second Presidential Debate"      [10/12/2004]  Read

"The First Annual Underappreciated Awards"      [10/11/2004]  Read

"Mistaking Commercial Popularity With Achievement"      [10/08/2004]  Read

"Notes on the Vice-Presidential Debate"      [10/07/2004]  Read

"The Pope: Oops, He Did it Again"      [10/06/2004]  Read

"West Hollywood Fascists"      [10/05/2004]  Read

"Notes on the September 30th Presidential Debate"      [10/04/2004]  Read

"The Magic Formula"      [10/01/2004]  Read

"What's Keeping Us Apart"      [09/29/2004]  Read

"A Gambling Book Worth Reading"      [09/28/2004]  Read

"Cultural Wasteland"      [09/27/2004]  Read

"Paying for Paul Crouch's Mansions"      [09/21/2004]  Read

"The Bad Thing About Dying"      [09/20/2004]  Read

"Some Free Gambling Advice"      [09/17/2004]  Read

"The Most Toys"      [09/16/2004]  Read

"What Really Matters in a Presidential Candidate"      [09/15/2004]  Read

"Gladiators"      [09/14/2004]  Read

"Is Progressivism Dead?"      [09/13/2004]  Read

"Graydon Carter: The Vicar of Venality"      [09/10/2004]  Read

"An Immodest Proposal: Natural Disasters"      [09/09/2004]  Read

"Labor Pains"      [09/07/2004]  Read

"The High Cost of Healthcare"      [09/06/2004]  Read

"The Living Funeral"      [09/03/2004]  Read

"Eugene Konik, 1936-2004"      [09/01/2004]  Read

"For the Family"      [08/09/2004]  Read

"Giving to the World"      [08/06/2004]  Read

"Missouri Shows Us"      [08/05/2004]  Read

"This Mysterious Notion of Quality"      [08/04/2004]  Read

"Voodoo Economics"      [08/03/2004]  Read

"Young at Heart"      [07/29/2004]  Read

"Casual: Three Little Jokes"      [07/28/2004]  Read

"Accepting Suicide"      [07/27/2004]  Read

"Two Cancer Survivors"      [07/26/2004]  Read

"Evolution"      [07/23/2004]  Read

"Abolish the Senate"      [07/22/2004]  Read

"Strange Bedfellows"      [07/21/2004]  Read

"Specializing in Everything"      [07/20/2004]  Read

"The Voracious Appetite"      [07/19/2004]  Read

"It's Magic"      [06/25/2004]  Read

"Bad Muslims"      [06/24/2004]  Read

"The Awful Acceleration"      [06/23/2004]  Read

"Screaming the Loudest"      [06/22/2004]  Read

"A Subtle Hazard of Reading the Wall Street Journal"      [06/18/2004]  Read

"Child Porn"      [06/17/2004]  Read

"A List of Things I'm Looking Forward To, Arranged in No Particular Order"      [06/16/2004]  Read

"Predictions"      [06/15/2004]  Read

"The Wisdom of Crowds"      [06/14/2004]  Read

"Random Searches"      [06/11/2004]  Read

"Anatomy of the Sports Fan"      [06/10/2004]  Read

"Killer Instinct"      [06/09/2004]  Read

"Being a Policeman"      [06/08/2004]  Read

"Real Patriots"      [06/07/2004]  Read

"In Praise of Nepotism"      [06/04/2004]  Read

"Three Strikes"      [06/03/2004]  Read

"The Allure of Bodybuilding"      [05/28/2004]  Read

"Would You Be Jesus?"      [05/27/2004]  Read

"The Pernicious Funnel"      [05/26/2004]  Read

"The Elderly"      [05/25/2004]  Read

"Casual: New Shows for the Summer Season"      [05/24/2004]  Read

"Fifty Years After Brown v. Board of Education"      [05/20/2004]  Read

"Including Dogs in Everyday Life"      [05/18/2004]  Read

"If Political Expediency Didn't Matter"      [05/17/2004]  Read

"What We Can Learn From 'Idol'"      [05/14/2004]  Read

"Moore Fiction"      [05/13/2004]  Read

"Never Too Late"      [05/12/2004]  Read

"Sheep, Cows, and Fields of Grass"      [05/11/2004]  Read

"The World's Most Beautiful People"      [04/30/2004]  Read

"Why People Hate Art"      [04/29/2004]  Read

"A Lyrical Then and Now"      [04/28/2004]  Read

"The Hallmarks of Genius"      [04/27/2004]  Read

"Chemicals"      [04/23/2004]  Read

"Vietraq"      [04/22/2004]  Read

"All Five Senses"      [04/21/2004]  Read

"A Blessed Life"      [04/20/2004]  Read

"A New Definition of Insanity"      [04/19/2004]  Read

"Training a Dog"      [04/16/2004]  Read

"How to Get Into Heaven"      [04/14/2004]  Read

"The Masters: A Coda"      [04/13/2004]  Read

"The Masters: A Tradition Like No Other"      [04/12/2004]  Read

"Foretelling the Future"      [04/09/2004]  Read

"To Mom and Dad: Thanks!"      [04/08/2004]  Read

"Talking to God"      [04/06/2004]  Read

"Sexism"      [04/05/2004]  Read

"Watches"      [04/02/2004]  Read

"Casual: New Religious Mottoes"      [03/31/2004]  Read

"If Every Day Were a Weekend"      [03/30/2004]  Read

"A Radical Idea for Lowering Gasoline Prices"      [03/29/2004]  Read

"The Swan"      [03/26/2004]  Read

"The Endless Empire"      [03/25/2004]  Read

"Insider Trading"      [03/23/2004]  Read

"The Slippery Slope of Indecency"      [03/22/2004]  Read

"If Trees Could Live Forever"      [03/19/2004]  Read

"The Meaning of Dogs"      [03/18/2004]  Read

"Blackjack Questions Answered"      [03/17/2004]  Read

"Should Looks Matter on the Opera Stage?"      [03/16/2004]  Read

"Litigators of the Christian Right"      [03/15/2004]  Read

"Broken Promises"      [03/12/2004]  Read

"The Crucial Difference Between American Culture and Bahraini Culture"      [03/11/2004]  Read

"When Pretension Meets Vulgarity"      [03/09/2004]  Read

"Keeping Up Appearances"      [03/08/2004]  Read

"Casual: Do the Math"      [03/04/2004]  Read

"Indecency and the FCC"      [03/03/2004]  Read

"Shirley Horn"      [03/02/2004]  Read

"When the Bill Comes Due"      [02/27/2004]  Read

"Mel Gibson: Pornographer"      [02/26/2004]  Read

"Domestic Security"      [02/25/2004]  Read

"Everybody is Entitled to an Opinion"      [02/24/2004]  Read

"How Can I Help?"      [02/23/2004]  Read

"Things Versus Experiences"      [02/21/2004]  Read

"That's What Friends Are For"      [02/20/2004]  Read

"How Someone is Going to Make a Jillion Dollars"      [02/18/2004]  Read

"Our National Anthem"      [02/17/2004]  Read

"Why Gays Should Be Permitted to Marry"      [02/16/2004]  Read

"One Voice, One Vote"      [02/12/2004]  Read

"Casual: A Modest Limerick"      [02/11/2004]  Read

"Cecilia Bartoli"      [02/10/2004]  Read

"The SUV Myth"      [02/09/2004]  Read

"In Praise of Tierney Sutton"      [02/06/2004]  Read

"Janet Jackson's Breast"      [02/05/2004]  Read

"Kroc's Great Gift"      [02/04/2004]  Read

"Devolution in Georgia"      [02/03/2004]  Read

"Super Bowl Sunday"      [02/02/2004]  Read

"Homosexual Prejudice"      [01/30/2004]  Read

"The Age of the Blockbuster"      [01/29/2004]  Read

"The Nature of Luck"      [01/28/2004]  Read

"State of the Union"      [01/27/2004]  Read

"MLK"      [01/21/2004]  Read

"Happy Birthday to Me"      [01/19/2004]  Read

"Mars Versus Earth"      [01/16/2004]  Read

"Without Health"      [01/15/2004]  Read

"The Vindictive Los Angeles Times"      [01/14/2004]  Read

"Helping by Hurting"      [01/13/2004]  Read

"Great Acting"      [01/10/2004]  Read

"Smooth Jazz"      [01/08/2004]  Read

"Pete Rose"      [01/07/2004]  Read

"The Astrology Enigma"      [01/06/2004]  Read

2003——————————————————————————————————————————

"Natural Disasters and God"      [12/31/2003]  Read

"Democrats and Republicans"      [12/29/2003]  Read

"My Christmas Wish"      [12/28/2003]  Read

"In Praise of Errol Morris"      [12/24/2003]  Read

"Junior Idols"      [12/22/2003]  Read

"Performance Enhancing Drugs"      [12/21/2003]  Read

"Against Charity"      [12/18/2003]  Read

"Strom und Drang"      [12/16/2003]  Read

"Presumed Guilty"      [12/14/2003]  Read

"Clapping For the Furniture"      [12/12/2003]  Read

"It's Almost Over"      [12/11/2003]  Read

"Porky Pigs"      [12/10/2003]  Read

"The 'Broken' BCS"      [12/09/2003]  Read

"The Nature of Vice"      [12/02/2003]  Read

"America's Fetish"      [11/20/2003]  Read

"The Dust of a Comet"      [11/19/2003]  Read

"Why Comedy Matters"      [11/18/2003]  Read

"Stock Pickers Versus Sports Bettors"      [11/16/2003]  Read

"In God We Trust"      [11/15/2003]  Read

"Putting the Dirty into the Clean Air Act"      [11/14/2003]  Read

"What Does ‘Family Values' Really Mean?"      [11/12/2003]  Read

"Despite Overwhelming Evidence to the Contrary, Six More Reasons There May In Fact Be a God"      [11/10/2003]  Read

"Who Really Controls the Media"      [11/08/2003]  Read

"What's Wrong With ‘Hate' Crimes"      [11/07/2003]  Read

"Understanding Trekkies"      [11/06/2003]  Read

"Orwell Revisits America"      [11/03/2003]  Read

"Opera For the Monolingual"      [11/02/2003]  Read

"Who's the Bigger Hypocrite? Rush or Sam?"      [11/01/2003]  Read

"Gay Pride Versus Gay Comfort"      [10/31/2003]  Read

"Calling all Feminists: Legalize Prostitution!"      [10/28/2003]  Read

"America's Policy Experts on the A.M. Dial"      [10/27/2003]  Read

"The Ultimate Accomplishment: Being Famous"      [10/26/2003]  Read

"Dividing the World into Two Neat Pieces"      [10/25/2003]  Read

"What Californians Have Done"      [10/24/2003]  Read

"Fourteen Reasons There May in Fact Be a God"      [10/23/2003]  Read