When I read that Republican National Committee staffers had expensed nearly $2000 worth of “meals” at bondage-themed Hollywood nightclub specializing in simulated lesbian sex, I knew it couldn’t be an […]
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A rapidly forming stereotype about autistic people is that they can’t use stereotypes. In the words of this site about kids with Asperger’s Syndrome, for instance, “they are usually free […]
The general manager of the Chilean mint has been sacked for negligence after thousands of 50 peso coins were issued with the country’s name spelled wrongly.
The Chicago Tribune disavows Illinois’ own Ulysses S. Grant in an editorial arguing to replace the Civil War general and President’s image on the fifty dollar bill with Ronald Reagan’s.
This semester in the sophomore-level course I teach on “Communication and Society,” we spent several weeks examining the many ways that individuals and groups are using the internet to alter […]
The snow in DC is preventing the usual Smithsonian/USGS Weekly Volcano Activity Report from getting posted – but fear not because here it is!
The map on the bedroom wall of every teenage Bilderberger
As with anything else, there’s good news and there’s bad news. The bad news is that the earth is continuing to heat up—this past decade was in fact the hottest […]
For generations, the topic of invisibility has been of great interest. Although it was once dismissed as science fiction, it has now become reality on a small scale. Physics textbooks around the […]
We tend to think of work done on assignment as being somehow cheaper than work springing entirely from the mind of the artist. Art on demand never strikes us as […]
The political blogosphere was abuzz yesterday after President Barack Obama addressed the House Republican Caucus meeting in Baltimore. The hour and half session also featured a segment where the president […]
Signs point to “a cultural shift on gays in the military” according to The Washington Post, which says that “arguments against it have lost traction over time.”
In the last twelve months we’ve seen two new political organizations hit the nationwide scene with an intensity and a geographic presence unheard of since the sixties. Unlike the Libertarian […]
Journalists may one day have a Saint among their ranks: the Roman Catholic church recently announced that the late Spanish journalist Manuel Lozano Garrido will be beatified this June, making […]
“I got IPO” used to be the phrase that paid back when I was a stockbroker years ago. There was a certain segment of the investing population who would do […]
In 1882, American novelist Henry James concluded that there was “nothing more to be said” about Venice, Italy. Artists of all stripes had trod and sloshed through the streets and […]
Hold the front page! Hold all the front pages (well, here in Britain at least). Last week Prime Minister Gordon Brown was persuaded, against his better judgement, to reveal his […]
I made a quick trip back to Orangeburg, S.C. this weekend to see my mother, whom I’ve dubbed “the Bionic Woman” because she is recuperating from her second hip replacement […]
When I began listening to the recorded testimony of Wall Street banking executives to Congress Wednesday on C-Span, I started to feel like I was sitting in a circle at […]
Why do people so often fail to live up to their own standards?
Wouldn’t it be ironic if the origin of big, bad, brawny Jackson Pollock’s drip and splatter paintings were a wifely homemaker, mother, and grandmother from Brooklyn? And wouldn’t it be […]
A New Jersey company called TrueCompanion has unveiled the world’s first “sex robot” – a woman replica called “Roxxxy” who has different personalities and responds to touch.
George W. Bush’s notorious deputy chief of staff makes New Year’s resolutions for politicians on both sides of the aisle.
Jonah Lehrer argues in the New York Times Magazine that depression might be good for us. He’s popularizing a theory advanced by two Virginia researchers who claim that depression is […]
Benjamin Sparrow, in his book Uncertain Guardians, cites an industry research report when he states “the people who create the public images of elected officials, those to be elected, and […]
Bloggers, as most know, are exceptionally lazy people. Mostly, we sit around in our underwear playing flash games. Only occasionally do we get off the sofa to whip off some […]
After the New York Times broke a story about Paterson’s possible intervention in a domestic abuse case on behalf of one of his aides, the governor of New York has suspended his election campaign.
I can’t blog forthrightly about the remote-control assassinations detailed this week in The New Yorker without first alerting readers to my bias — a bias that’s more about pragmatism and […]
When you live in Atlanta, the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday celebration is not just a one day affair. Here we have King Week activities, galas and marches for days. […]
The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington has said it will stop its social service programs if gay marriage is legalized.