It was our much-anticipated quarterly lunch with Tim Kurkjian, baseball analyst extraordinaire, wherein George Will and I bathe in a constant flow of obscure statistics, Kurkjian oddities and ribald anecdotes.

If you want to use a historical metaphor to describe what has just happened, Pearl Harbor was attacked and now the side that received the first blow has responded with its own declaration of war.

Sunday is my birthday. I’ll be 68. By some strange coincidence, my lifetime (so far) corresponds to what I would call the greatest squander in the history of the world.

The Secret Circus may soon be looking for a new ringmaster.

Five weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, Osama bin Laden publicly commanded his foot-soldiers to ramp up the violence against American civilians.

Fred Davis had a Jerry Maguire moment this week.

You know what’s the hardest part of working in a domestic violence program?