In 2009, the average office worker will spend forty-one per cent of her day reading and responding to e-mails. Such grim statistics abound in John Fre...
AP | DAVID STRINGER | Posted 10.19.2009 | World
LONDON — It's not exactly diplomatic – details of what British ambassadors really think about their foreign hosts were disclosed Sunday fo...
John Lundberg | Posted 10.04.2009 | Living
Sotheby's expert Gabriel Heaton gave us a hint of their contents, telling the British newspaper The Guardian that "Byron clearly enjoyed writing slightly outrageous things to a clergyman..."
Treehugger | Posted 09.07.2009 | Green
A group of 10 moderate Democrats sent a letter to President Obama on Thursday saying that they will not support any domestic climate change bill that ...
Rachael Freed | Posted 07.09.2009 | Living
Though we're not all professional caregivers, we all care for and about others. Legacy writing gives us a way to express our caring as we care for ourselves.
A. Lee Fritschler | Posted 06.20.2009 | Business
What the Postal Service needs is to be free of congressional interventions and allowed to operate as a regulated corporation in a competitive delivery services industry.
Jerry Zezima | Posted 03.14.2009 | Style
Yes, it's true: Regis Philbin has no passwords. He has simplified his life the way I and millions of other people wish we could simplify ours, but can't.
Peter Clothier | Posted 03.08.2009 | Media
In view of the "tax problems" that are plaguing the confirmation of Barack Obama's nominees, I have a modest proposal.
Mimi Kennedy | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics
You are a delinquent taxpayer, which undermines our trust in your fiscal judgment.
H. Candace Gorman | Posted 03.05.2009 | World
As the rest of the world is standing by waiting to see us take responsibility for Gitmo, we should release the Uighur detainees into the United States and grant them provisional asylum.
Meredith Lopez | Posted 02.27.2009 | Style
In my letter to the Obamas, I explained that my son is also mixed heritage, like our new president: my baby is half-Jewish and half-Cuban, or Juban as they say in Miami.
Chris Rodda | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics
One decorated officer, a man who repeatedly risks his life, could not muster the courage to resist the pressure of his "serious and committed born again Christian" commanding officer to applaud Rick Warren.
Rick Smith | Posted 01.11.2009 | Style
Dear God: The pterodactyls suggested a few million years ago that we consider moving south where it's warmer, so we soon plan to form a committee.
Disgrasian | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics
October 8, 2008 Dear John McCain, WE ARE NOT YOUR FRIENDS. Sincerely, DISGRASIAN...
The New Yorker | Keith Lubeley | Posted 11.25.2009 | Books