One of the many reasons I left my last job was my incompetent manager. We hired him in to manage a well-established team with an even mix of senior and mid-level engineers, so that we could deal less with the analysts and business units. However, instead of making our lives easier, he ended up making things much, much worse.

More than 50 pit bulls were rescued from Michael Vick's illegal fighting kennel last year, malnourished, wounded, unsocialized, and trained to kill. Investigators assumed the dogs would have to be put down after serving as material evidence in the trials against Vick, but several animal welfare organizations appealed for th

Bobby Knight calls it quits in Lubbock. The coaching legend ends his storied and controversial career after 42 remarkable seasons and 902 hard-earned wins. Always passionate, always a firebrand, Knight will be remembered as one of the game's greatest teachers and one of its most colorful characters.

Pat Knight, who wa

Tom Brady fails against yet another Manning. First Peyton, now Eli. Teams in the AFC East are frantically scrambling to sign Papa Manning to a contract for next year to guarantee a win or two.

Any Manning > Tom Brady.

It's a new law of nature.

Congratulations to the NY Giants for their victory. And cong

The Obama campaign has worked hard to draw comparisons between their candidate and JFK, sometimes subtly and sometimes with a sledgehammer. Here's an example of one of the more subtle echoes of JFK, through a visual.

In ads currently airing, one of the most iconic images of Kennedy is echoed. The black and white still

Caroline Kennedy wants a President just like the President who married dear old mom. Of course if she were the least bit objective about JFK she wouldn't want a candidate like him at all. He was a weak President, elected with the narrowest of margins, who did precious little good other than give us LBJ. And I don't think B