I happened to be on campus at Webster University Tuesday evening when I noticed something that seemed — to me, at least — unusual.

President Barack Obama was addressing the nation. Students were clustered around a television set inside the lobby…

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I don’t care what the advance polls say: Right now, neither I nor anyone else knows who our next president will be. Nor can anyone say for certain why those who vote for Barack Obama or John McCain will do…

“Every Halloween, the trees are full of underwear. Every spring, the toilets explode.”

So lamented Dean Vernon Wormer of Faber College in the 1978 movie “Animal House.” But the same complaints — and worse — could be made by any number…

Fallout from the Anheuser-Busch deal with InBev:

A colleague (who shall remain unnamed) suggested in an editorial board meeting Monday that “Budweiser is (crummy) beer.”

This particular colleague does not drink beer. His defense was that “everyone I know who knows anything…