Category: Culture

Here’s a promo I received in my email today. No Agenda Show Demystifies Why Powerful Men do destructive things that basically “ruin” or “devastate” their lives, a la Arnold Schwarzenegger and Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Co-Host Adam Curry investigated what makes guys like this tic. He found out some interesting things in the new DSM5, the Book […]

There’s not much that I’d agree with NY Times Executive Editor Bill Keller on, but his latest column, The Twitter Trap has a lot of truth in it. Joshua Foer’s engrossing best seller “Moonwalking With Einstein” recalls one colossal example of what we trade for progress. Until the 15th century, people were taught to remember […]

As part of a never-ending series, I like to do short reviews of the books I read. Here are the latest 10 books I’ve read with the previous 180 that I’ve perused linked here. PS: If you’re wondering why there are very few low rated books on this list, it’s because I have a low […]

In what must be one of the most mediocre comic issues of all-time, the superhero whose slogan used to be “truth, justice, and the American way” has now renounced his American citizenship. Goyer’s installment, with tense art from Miguel Sepulveda, steals the spotlight in Action Comics No. 900. When Superman drops in on an Iranian […]

Just as a blind squirrel will find a nut now and again, David Brooks will occasionally, against all the odds, write a good column. His latest, The Big Disconnect, is such a column. Moreover, the two parties are about to run utterly familiar political campaigns. The Democrats are going to promise to raise taxes on […]

Sometimes a video comes along that inspires you, that motivates you, and that helps you appreciate the things you have that other people don’t. Like testicles. That video, for me, was the instant Internet classic Dear Woman. Unlike the “men” in Dear Woman, I don’t apologize for my gender. Men don’t owe women an apology […]

CHURCHVILLE, VA–U.S. Energy prices have risen to more than 6 percent of consumer spending–which may be a historic “tipping point.” Our food prices, meanwhile, have had their steepest increase in a generation, to about 6.5 percent of spending. That’s a double whammy consumers haven’t suffered since Jimmy Carter’s infamous “stagflation,” a painful mix of weak […]

The best piece of advice that I ever got was, “Find something you love so much that you’d do it for free and find a way to make it into a career.” For me, that was writing and if I have my way, I’ll be writing for a living until they put me in the […]

I’m all in favor of smart people breeding and I do think that over time, the higher conservative birth rate and the liberal lust for abortion will help tilt the political scales a bit our way. Still, some people take that line of reasoning further. For example, there are apparently a few people who believe […]

There are some people who don’t want to hear this, but the reality is that you can no more change your sex than you can change your species. If you’re born a woman, you’re going to remain a woman even if they mutilate your vagina and turn it into a penis. If you’re a man, […]