After citing Sinead O’Connor’s “Nothing Compares to You” as inspiration for her own “Wreaking Ball” video, Miley Cyrus has gotten quite the response from Ms. O’Connor in the form of an…

  I woke up this morning to a flurry of alarmist stat updates decrying the government shut down that began today. Thing is, they didn’t actually state any real information, just a…

(PBS)     While doing some reading this morning, I came across a couple of stories that touched on Brown v. Board of Education and desgregation in American public schools.   The first…

(WNYC)     Last month while at GiGi and David’s, NPR somehow made it into our topic. I think David had mentioned eventually publishing his novel and then landing an interview on…

  I know I’m going to sound like a such jerk, but I really wish all those e-proselytizers out there would just shut up. I’m sick of your frequent status updates, pictures,…

Me, on the left, and Giddel (we go back like babies and pacifiers). Notice I’m wearing black overalls, which would’ve made me on point for trend #7 (see below), except this picture…

    Seeing the headline, “Millennials Now Bringing Their Parents On Job Interviews”, made me gag. Then I immediately thought of the “Ban the bag” Portlandia skit. Yeah, I’m talking about “Portlandia”…

    I just read a great article by William Saletan at Slate… so great, that I had to get up out of bed (I was reading it on my iPad), and…

    Good Lord. Suspected Boston Marathon Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has a dang fan club. From The Gothamist:   As Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev arrived at court today, about a…

Painting by Frederic Edwin Church, 1861, oil on paper, “Our Banner in the Sky”, H/T: http://www.urbancure.org/     My friend Aja sent me an email that had the picture above in there. After…