He should have nominated FCC babe Jessica Rosenworcel.

Flexner's multi-volume life of the great man changed my life. It will make you thoughtful about integrity, ambition, resolution, courage, and patience.

"Full many a flower is born to blush unseen
And waste its sweetness on the desert air."
Thomas Gray, Elegy...

As an old, my hope is for that MOOC courses will help many "mute, inglorious Milton[s]" find their voices and improve the human condition, for no better reason than that it seems like a good idea.

Sixty-two year old babe running for Senate from Massachusetts. Straight shooter, smarter than me and probably you, too. Also tough as nails. If you like Senator Franken, you will like future Senator Warren.

Thanks to Ritchie I had the tools to support my family for the past 25 years. Thanks to Ritchie, I enjoyed the work. RIP

Announcing the ruling, the council of the European Union said: "Performers generally start their careers young and the current term of protection of 50 years often does not protect their performances for their entire lifetime.

"Therefore, some performers face an income gap at the end of their lifetimes."

This stinks. Maybe they should not have stopped recording. Most of us do not collect for our performances 50 years ago.

OK, they don't hate Science but they don't love it as much as they love money. Hey, me too! But I neglected to get my money-license when I was young.

Medical education is indeed expensive. But why would someone lend a twenty-something a quarter million dollars unless they expected him or her to get rich? The only poor doctors I know are those who are addicted to substances. The only middle-class doctors I know live and work in Europe.

All the health professions are trying to jump on this bandwagon. My dermatologist walks into the room with his nitrogen bottle, shooting randomly on my arm and back while his nurse keeps score at $14 per squirt; my dentist, learning that I got some dental insurance after 20 years of cash visits, starts ordering $45 half-ounce shots of fluoride mouthwash; my veterinarian wants to do "blood work" whenever I bring my old dog in for diarrhea or a sore paw. The combination of insurance companies and the barriers to entry into the big-money professions has ruined health care. One great new trend is the quickie clinics that are going into drug stores. No appointments, not much waiting around, see a nurse practioner for most routine needs, and paying the cost seems a little more like a free-market experience.