Way Out In The Margin

TORONTO, ONTARIO - I'll refrain from trying to match the wonderful tributes to Tom Petty being posted around the world today after his d...

TORONTO, ONTARIO - This is the one thousandth post to this blog.  The looming significance of such a milestone was a significant factor in t...

TORONTO, ONTARIO - The number geniuses on Nate Silver's staff at FiveThirtyEight.com have come to the conclusion that New Haven, Connec...

TORONTO, ONTARIO - The death of Shirley Temple Black yesterday at the age of 85 reminded me that she played a role in teaching me a life les...

TORONTO, ONTARIO - In the wake of the George Zimmerman verdict in Florida, KGO-San Francisco's Brian Copeland produced a compelling hour...

TORONTO, ONTARIO - Chicago Tribune columnist Rex Huppke has been receiving a lot of publicity from a recent column in the form of an obituar...

TORONTO, ONTARIO - There have been a lot of events in the past year or so since I ceased blogging regularly that should have brought me back...