Alright, so admittedly I fanned the flames on purpose this time with this. But it’s important that the true bullshit vortex be ID-ed and brought to light: A small segment of society is exercising undue control over the larger conversation in our news media. And this is harming our freedom of speech, our national discourse, [...]

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 [...]

Lessons from this: The far right sure loves a) its righteous indignation, and b) its dead women. (Though Mary Jo was a staunch Democrat, who I’d like to think would have laughed ’til her sides hurt if she heard 5 minutes of this right-wing nonsense.)
Lest anyone think that right wing news sources (oxymoron?) don’t [...]

We’re comfortable with moral relativism in this country — or, at least, we love us a good “sinned and redeemed” narrative. And, for the most part, we realize that there are few lives on which we can slap a “Good” or “Evil” label and expect it to be accurate.
Which, let’s face it, is one [...]

Second Life still creeps me out a bit, in a good way. I like being a bystander to the virtual world — it’s amazing to watch the hysterical wildness (and depravity) that humans carry out when the constraints of daily reality are lifted.
But whenever SL devotees declare they’re going to break my resistance and [...]

Yup, you read that right. Check out the full story here. Since when does being a hot actress preclude you from having a single working brain cell?

I’m the world’s worst liar. I know this because people tell me so. Also because any lie I attempt winds up resulting in apologies, laughter, and me losing my balance and falling down — not necessarily in that order.
I used to think my ineptitude at deceit was due to the fact that the people [...]

“What are you reading/watching/eating??” the readers ask. Well, here’s an ultra-short compilation:
Isn’t it great when a friend writes a novel, and you think it’s amazing? Check out Rakesh Satyal’s amazing debut, Blue Boy. It’s the perfect book for anyone who has ever spent a day feeling bullied, suppressed, misunderstood, downtrodden, or tyrannized. In other words, [...]

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 [...]