"The Office" -- American style.

I read some reviews of the new American version of "The Office," and they all seemed tortured by the very idea of replacing the Br...

"They used to have a couple of whorehouses in town -- are they going to bring those back?"

So said a man old enough to remember speakeasies in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where there is a referendum about ending a 110-year-old ban on ser...

"Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose."

Maureen Dowd quotes Nietzsche . The topic is, naturally, the Schiavo case. But is morality really working as a device for manipulating the e...

Is it possible to explain the Schiavo statute on television?

I watched a number of the cable TV news analysis shows last night (and in the last few days), and I am appalled at the failure even to raise...

"American Idol" -- goodbye to Mikalah.

With the results on Thursday, I'm deprived of the TiVo, because Chris insists on TiVo-ing "The Apprentice" -- a show I can...

Disaster city.

The BBC tells the story of Texas City, where a huge explosion killed fifteen persons yesterday. My parents survived the great 1947 explosi...

Madison politics: "I love my bubble."

Local politics, Madison-style : Austin King says he has accomplished a lot in his two years on the Madison City Council. But he boils the ra...