Opinion

A terribly wonderful thing happened the other day. The folks at the NSA are hoping you didn’t notice, but Congress failed to renew a few key provisions of the Patriot Act, like the ones that let the NSA hoover up all of your metadata from the phone companies and store…

Some people just can’t catch a break… and then there is Lindsay Lohan. The former Disney starlet and current star of not a damn thing has been fucking up so long that some of you may know her best from her series of mug shots. Fans of those wonderful portraits…

When I was a teenager, there were commercials going around for Bod, a body spray that was sort of a precursor to Axe. Whereas the ads for Axe were sort of tongue-in-cheek, the marketing behind Bod was a lot more direct. The commercials objectified men in the same way most…

Are you running for president? I had to ask because it seems like every time I turn on the TV or read the news, someone else has announced that they want to be the next President of the United States. On the Democrats’ side we have Hillary Clinton and Bernie…

It’s quite possible that the dawning of the new age is upon us. If you’re reading this in a public setting—hypothetically, let’s say a Carl’s Jr.—take a look around you. That person at the booth across the way, the one pounding the Western Bacon Cheeseburger and side of CrissCut fries;…

We got the short end of the stick here in America as far as our leaders in politics go. Sure, our president—and you’re free to debate whether he’s an effective one or not (if there’s even such a thing as an effective president nowadays)—is an extremely charismatic public figure; and…

It’s like they want us to be confused. Sure they tell us ahead of time, but it’s not like we can really prepare for it. So we forget the warning and fall into our usual routines until, bam! It’s time to change the damn clocks again. And with that, everyone’s…

Do you listen to yourself? I mean actually listen to the “words” you say? If you did, you’d know that sometimes what we say doesn’t make sense. While a certain phrase might have literally meant something at one time or another, over the years, that saying loses its context and…

A little while back, NASA announced it was ditching its space shuttle program. This more or less squashed whatever meager hope I had of ever going into outer space. I was bummed. But NASA hasn’t gone quietly into the deep, dark night of space where no one can hear you…

There is a scourge spreading across this country, and it’s leaving our most vulnerable sick in its wake. People are actually getting the measles again and it seems that we have our own stupidity to thank. The vaccine for measles was invented in 1963 and quickly led to a precipitous…