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

Memory is often - perhaps usually - a distorting lens: what we think we remember isn't the way it was at all. It's what we'd like to remember.

Water-boarding can result in damage to the lungs and the brain, as well as long-term psychological trauma.

I think the movie business is in trouble. It's all movies that you've seen before. Everything's a remake; they want things that are familiar rather than things that surprise you.

In 2004, I wrote 'What We've Lost,' a book about the Bush administration. It sold only reasonably well, in part, I think, because the book was a horrific downer, an unrelenting account of the administration's actions, bungles, deceptions, half-truths, untruths, and downright corruptions.

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

Every minute you invest in kids you get back four times over.