Last week, an article in Slate entitled "How Black People Use Twitter: The latest research on race and microblogging" caused a bit of a stir and some moments of sheer hilarity on Twitter and in the...
At the end of “28 Weeks Later”, the screaming British zombies surged through the channel tunnel to upset the Parisians with lack of fashion sense, inadequate language skills (RARGGGHHH) and...
I love the way BBC world news service segues from one story to another - from the misery of floods in Pakistan it effortlessly moves to jellyfish attacks on Spanish beaches. The consistent gravity of...
By the time my birthday rolled around this year, I was away from Moscow for a while - taking care of family business, mostly. Because the situation surrounding the health of a relative in Kiev was...
The internet recently went into an all-out furor over a segment of Dr. Laura Schlessinger's radio program, in which she used the N word repeatedly, while telling a Black woman who had called for...
Those terrorists are at it again. This time bigger, better, and ultimately deadlier. They are building a mosque on the ashen remains of the World Trade Center, giving a giant middle finger to...
Even the American President is not God. I discover this fact while standing On a nude beach, by a (hopefully) dead volcano. It has taken millions of years to say that certainly, Lava will not...
It's one of the inevitabilities of music criticism that eventually, someone somewhere declares a formerly beloved genre dead. The movement usually goes something like: underground from first...
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says he's open to requiring parents to prove their citizenship in the birth room (a logistical nightmare for hospitals), in order to prevent illegal immigrants...
Music is my religion. I worship at many different churches; I'm a raging polytheist. I hit three different services this past week and each was blissful in its own way, a reminder to step away from...
