It is beautiful, shiny, and impressive, and not entirely valueless - but nothing like as glorious as it appears.

What if the stadium is empty? If there are too many empty seats on TV, I'll lose my head. What to do...?

Solzhenitsyn warned of "an atmosphere of moral mediocrity, paralyzing man's noblest impulses."

Ingrid Betancourt has learned that there are some people you just don't negotiate with.

The fame of the TSA has become so great that Japanese shoppers twelve thousand miles away know just how they treat your luggage.

There's just no pleasing some people!

Maybe we can make a difference!

What the American revolutionaries did and what the founders of the State of Israel did meets the current definition of terrorism from the FBI web site, but that cannot be. That's why Scragged offers a subtle, but vital, change to the official definition.

We're acting like King George and not like George Washington.

Why is terrorism so prevalent there? And how well is it working?