Sorry Ma'am - we just didn't see it coming. A British newspaper reported Sunday that a group of eminent economists have apologized to Queen Elizabeth II for failing to predict the financial crisis. ...more

July 27, 2009

I started to write this over a month ago, but I observed something rather remarkable-foreboding. The Republicans-conservatives were rather blase in completely dismissing the eight-year record of doubling the $5 trillion national debt, while blasting President Obama and the Democrats on the nearly $800 billion stimulus bill. In addition they ignored the nearly $3 trillion bailout of the banks and Wall Street with hardly a whimper between September '08 and January, '09. ...more

February 27, 2009

Figures lie and liars figure, goes the saying. It was ever thus, since the invention of the statistic. Luckily, that history-shaping development almost certainly sparked the skepticism gene to life, energizing our hubris detector. ...more

October 12, 2008

The Crash of 2008, which is now wiping out trillions of dollars of our people's wealth, is, like the Crash of 1929, likely to mark the end of one era and the onset of another. ...more

September 23, 2008

The Political Discourse The mental picture of local Republicans, poison pens at the ready, waiting to pounce on Barack Obama's choice for vice president is mildly amusing (Letters, Aug. 26). Obama could have chosen Mother Teresa, and these right-wingers would have said she's a liberal who works with terrorist sympathizers. Such is the political discourse in this country. ...more

September 2, 2008

This is proving that it would probably be easier for Jabba the Hutt to move his keister than to get Karen Peoples to please, simply go away. ...more

July 22, 2008

Increasingly strange things are being said to justify disenfranchising Democrats who happened to cast primary votes in Florida or Michigan. ...more

May 26, 2008

There's nothing like a good scandal to spice up the campaign season. And This Space enjoys a good scandal as much as the next soulless muckraker. ...more

May 11, 2008

Regarding "Parents Get Crash Course In Hubris 101" (Our Opinion, April 7): I am appalled by the Hillsborough County School Board's policy to not meet with parents who have questions about issues that impact their children, but to hear from them right before the board votes. ...more

April 14, 2008

By Saturday morning, the verbal dust had long since settled at the Lee County Sports Complex, where the Twins held their first full-squad workout of the spring. The day before, Minnesota outfielder Delmon Young had passed the first test of what he insists is a newfound professional contentment. ...more

February 24, 2008