The danger of leaving overwhelming wealth and power in the grasp of a small minority is a lesson that leaders such as ousted Tunisian president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali and deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak have learned a little too late, as the demonstrations across the Arab world indicate.

It could safely be said that Iraqis are dying at a faster clip since the American-led invasion and occupation than they did during the last decade of Saddam Hussein's rule.

My hunch is that pop culture began to stagnate the moment Americans started to love the past more than they did the future.

Branding experts believe that just because they have rethought a company's image or name, the rest of us will automatically fall in line.

Moping is an unattractive attribute in a man.

You know, I used to warm the thermometer on the light bulb... I was really good at being sick. I could forge my mother's signature on a sick note so well I was hardly ever at school.

Television has the obvious benefits of regularity and intimacy.