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I was half kidding a few months ago when I suggested Islamic sharia law to shape up the stock exchange. It turns out I wasn’t far off. Apparently, Islamic investment funds have beaten the market of late. The two Amana Growth and Income funds beat the S&P 500 by 13% and 7% respectively. The San…

I didn’t know this: the octuplets father apparently, wanted to get married: Angela Suleman said Nadya’s boyfriend was the biological father of all 14 children, but that she refused to marry him. “He was in love with her and wanted to marry her,” she said. “But Nadya wanted to have children on her own.” It’s…

In this week’s Time, Walter Isaacson argues that newspapers won’t survive unless people start paying something for the online versions. (He suggests a micro-payment system a la E-ZPass). I agree with Isaacson that the newspaper (and magazine) industry must think in radical terms. Thomas Jefferson said, “were it left to me to decide whether we…

“Fidelity”: Don’t Divorce… from Courage Campaign on Vimeo.This strikes me as the most effective of the gay marriage ads I’ve seen. Instead of emphasizing rights, it emphasizes the conservative values of marriage — and implicitly challenges the anti-gay-marriage argument that same-sex unions will destroy families.
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