I’ve written a lot about climate change. I’ve also worked and written for the authors of Freakonomics. So I’ve gotten a few requests for comment on the huge controversy surrounding the climate change chapter in their sequel, Superfreakonomics, which goes on sale today.
I’m not a climate expert by any stretch of the imagination. I [...]

Every once in a while I’ll read something that restores my faith that writers are important. Something that’s so true, so authentic, and so universal that it needed to be written, and read, by as many human beings as possible. This is that in a nutshell.
I listen to conversations. A lot. Hell, one of [...]

Aaaand so for this week’s Horror Chick we delve into the vast and rarely original world of sci-fi horror. With a dig at Tucker Max thrown in. ‘Cause Lord knows it’s been a while since that sad scrap of humanity has been mentioned on this blog.
UPDATE: The witty and smart Lindsay Robertson has the best [...]

Writing on the Internet is funny. You can cook up a post in a couple hours and watch it generate national controversy, then spend a month reporting an actual edited piece (on a far more controversial subject) and watch it barely splash the surface before sinking into Google-able obscurity.
Such was the case with this [...]

My love for horror movies has been well documented on this blog. And given my recent discovery that the Huffington Post is being trolled by controversy-starved production assistants at Fox News (more on that later), perhaps a move away from the political sphere is in order. So I’m gonna write about slasher flicks for the [...]

Not a chance. But I will sort of miss it when (if) it does go.

So Twitter. If you don’t know know what it is yet, you may soon be the only one. As with any new form of communication that sucks us all into its vortex (TV?), Twitter’s rise is bringing all sorts of criticism, with bloggers and other Web pundits (pot? kettle? black?) leaping on cyber-soap boxes to [...]

After a couple months, I’m getting used to this whole “30″ thing. At the least, it makes for a handy punchline — “I don’t have to put up with this bullshit from overcharging deliverymen/surly bus drivers/dudes in bars…I’m 30!” It’s a nice mantra, a reminder that I’m not as terminally stupid as I once was–things [...]

As much as I loathe math (as anyone who’s ever watched me struggle to add anything with 2 digits can attest) I’m gaining a new respect for it. Why? Because it’s one of the few things in the universe that humans, as much as we try, can’t fuck up. It exists separate from us, and [...]

Human beings are funny. We waltz around, prisoners in our own heads, absolutely certain that everything we think and perceive is “real,” and not just a concoction of chemicals swirling in our skulls.
Take the classic “white Toyota” example: You spend your waking hours cruising along the roads, noticing other cars in a “I could [...]