I expect this will be the last time I write about the Mets for a few months. I woke up this morning and I'm still replaying the 9th inni...

The head of the Catholic Church in Scotland, Cardinal O'Brien, wants Muslims to apologize for September 11 and the July 7, 2005 bombing...

Mets lose and are out. Nothing left now, but a long, dark winter.

The Irish Wind Energy Truth Alliance has allies in the anti-wind farm movement in a couple of Massachusetts politicians: Senator Kennedy an...

My bank's online banking system is down and could be down for "a few days". I couldn't help laughing when the guy on the ...

Statistics is more science than art, but projections generated by statisticians are not as certain as those produced by a physicist studying...

By the way, look for the Dow to come down significantly if (when? I hope not) the Mets do make their exit from the Playoffs. Okay, so I don...

You can't pin this loss on me. Despite the fact that I wore the lucky shirt through the whole game the Mets lost 4-2 and now trail 3 gam...

Italians in Boston (& elsewhere across America, presumably) thought they were getting a chance to see, touch, have their pictures taken...

According to today's Times , the EU wants to control web videos now. The proposed Television Without Frontiers directive would require w...

The final tallies are in and the Ryder Cup television audience seems like it may have come in just a shade under the promised billion . In ...

I just stumbled on this letter to the editor of the Miami Herald . The letter writer is from Portugal and explains how Portugal, Brazil and...

The Mets have lost two straight games to St. Louis and suddenly their prospects look far from rosy. The cause of the Mets' problems is o...

The Irish government has approved a proposal to build a "wind farm" off-shore. 220 wind turbines will be built 12km off the Bray ...

Odd, sad story. We'll probably never definitively know what happened. I can't believe that small planes are still allowed to fly ove...

Cursive is dying. (I think it's known as joined writing here, but I'm not 100% sure of that). Apparently computers are to blame . I...

The NY Times reports today that anti-Muslim sentiment is rising in Europe. On the one hand, this is a big "Duh" moment for anyon...

Game 1 New York vs St. Louis tonight.

The fact that you need a license (cost €158) to own a television set is bad enough, but any proposal to widen the scope of this tax is grote...

Yes, I'm a bit late chiming in, but I just thought I'd add my two cents worth on the veils, Muslim women and Jack Straw. I see nothi...