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Bad sports, good sports: Urban Meyer is annoying and insincere 26 Aug 2013 | 07:30 pm
Fandom is a funny thing. People are willing to paint their faces, their bodies, adorn their homes with flags, signs, and a huge variety of other items with logos, and spend an awful lot of time discus...
Top ten spokespersons 26 Aug 2013 | 05:30 pm
10. Anthony Weiner for Jockey Underwear 9. Gary Busey for H&R Block 8. Justin Bieber for Alberto VO5 7. Rick Perry for the ‘For Dummies’ Book Series 6. Rush Limbaugh for OxyContin Tablets 5. Vin ...
Let’s not do this: Stupid movie quotes 23 Aug 2013 | 07:38 pm
What do the Lone Ranger and a cartoon snail have in common? Well, the answer, other than they might be able to share some foundational Joseph Campbellesque hero archetype role, should be this: “Not m...
Why do Russians hate Texas so much? 23 Aug 2013 | 02:48 am
Feodor Dostoevsky- there’s a town named after him in Texas- allegedly. Recently I read that the population of people speaking Russian at home in the United States has quadrupled over the last thee de...
Bad sports, good sports: NCAA declares former marine ineligible 19 Aug 2013 | 07:30 pm
I really hate the NCAA. I know I am not exactly putting myself out on an island with that statement, as hating the NCAA in 2013 has become kind of like hating the DMV…pretty much everyone feels that w...
Top ten signs you’re having a bad summer 19 Aug 2013 | 05:30 pm
10. You’ve lost so much blood from mosquito bites, they’ve stopped biting you 9. Your neighborhood swimming pool has banned you, because of your weak bladder 8. The B&B you’re staying at evidently s...
Evolution has been in The Bible all along 19 Aug 2013 | 08:31 am
Ever since Darwin published his infamous On the Origin of the Species in 1859, science and theology have been at war over the theory of evolution. The irony is that evolution and all its aspe...
When kings go incognito 15 Aug 2013 | 12:08 am
One of my favorite story motifs is of the king who travels incognito to learn what is really happening in his land. This idea shows up not only in folktales and fictions, but also in reality: Caliph H...
Facts, values and our politics 14 Aug 2013 | 01:30 am
A conundrum is emerging that confounds my understanding, limited as it may be, of politics and economics. As a student of political ideology, and the author of two books on media and politics, I’ve.....
Of Russian resets and NSA leaks 12 Aug 2013 | 10:38 pm
In 2001 President Bush met Vladimir Putin at a summit in Slovenia. They met to discuss post-Soviet debt, among other things, but Bush saw their initial meeting as a chance to form a strong relationshi...
