I wrote a column about a few of the weirdest, wildest, strangest toys of my youth: Food Fighters, Zoids and Mad Balls.

Longtime readers of this weekly effort may recall my affection for the word "woodenheadedness." It comes from The March of Folly, Barbara Tuchman's 1984 book about "the pervasive presence… of ...

Many young people have written to the ABC with a similar story: they feel like they did everything "right" but will never achieve what previous generations did. It's a story that defined the past ...