There has been some interesting news recently concerning gender lines in sports. Coincidentally (or not), both stories I’ve come across involve tennis. At the professional level, the All England Lawn Tennis Club has drawn controversy by announcing that this year’s prize money for the Wimbledon...

Here’s your food for thought for the week. Are dual income households worth it? Or are they actually hiding a bigger problem for the middle class? Professor Elizabeth Warren writes in a recent issue of Harvard Magazine that today’s middle-class, dual-income households are actually less financially...

So last week my desktop PC at home died. Luckily, I heeded the sick noises the hard drive was making prior to that, and backed up all my important files. Everything else is probably fine, but several other minor annoyances (including the fact that the noisy case fan and video card fan made it sound...

Note: the following is satire. Reader discretion is strongly advised for the humor-imparied. Violent protests broke out again in the liberal strongholds of New York City, Boston, and San Francisco today as left-wingers demanded the death of Thomas D. Kuiper, the author of a compilation of unflattering...

The “$2.89″ in my previous post should read “$3.05.” Sincerest apologies for any inconvenience.

Via Mark Byron, this chart from the Washington Post shows us the component parts of gasoline prices. By far the largest component is the price of crude oil, 54.8 percent of at-the-pump prices, which hit $70 a barrel this week and should continue to rise throughout the summer. The second largest component...

I think it’s commendable that the Democratic party is having their spring meeting in New Orleans this week. Just as when the GOP chose to have their national convention in New York City following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the Democrats’ decision to meet in New Orleans will...

One of ITA’s founding missions was to serve as a psudo Greek agora – a place where people assembled to discuss all kinds of topics. I think we’ve largely achieved that, but the topics that are discussed here are still largely driven by the topics we choose to post about. In an attempt...

When you mention baseball greats, Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, Willie Mays, Lou Gerhig, and others come to mind. St. Louis Cardinal slugger Albert Pujols isn’t yet a part of that list, nor should he be. But if Pujols continues on his current pace he will undoubtedly deserve to mentioned in the same...

The New York Times carries an interesting article titled, “For a Price, Final Resting Places That Even Tut Could Appreciate.” There are apparently a growing nnumber of expensive individual mausoleums. “The mausoleum says, ‘I’m really significant in this world, I think I’m...