Financial institutions like to call what they do trading. Let's be honest. It's not trading; it's betting.

Arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. Not a pretty cocktail of personality traits in the best of situations. No sirree. Not a pretty cocktail in an office-mate and not a pretty cocktail in a head of state. In fact, in a leader, it's a lethal cocktail.

Life is all about seating and lighting.

In less than a year, the Bush administration will strut out of office, leaving the country in roughly the same condition a toddler leaves a diaper.

As any editor will tell you, startling newsroom revelations are generally met with queries about where the information came from and how the reporter got it. Seriously startling revelations are followed by the vetting of libel lawyers.

Every man in the back of their minds would like to own a bar or a racehorse.

As a father of five, I sometimes feel I've spent a lifetime watching Disney musicals.