And it’s about to.  E! is soon to bring the genre to a new low with “Bridalplasty“: Each week, a group of women go head-to-head in such challenges as writing wedding vows and planning honeymoons. The winner receives the chance to choose a plastic surgery procedure from her “wish list.” She’s given the procedure immediately, [...]

In three of my classes this semester I have no textbooks. I repeat, no actual textbooks. These aren’t easy or reading light courses I’m talking about. No, these are upper level history courses. As a result I have a few hundred dollars in my pocket that I otherwise would not. I’ve been asking around a [...]

For a long time now I’d been wishing someone would do a comprehensive profile of Jon Stewart. My wishes were granted in this week’s issue of New York magazine. The profile, by Chris Smith, is pretty awesome. This particular bit stuck out to me: “Jon has chronicled the death of shame in politics and journalism,” [...]

So it looks like the DREAM Act is finally going to hit the Senate floor.  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced today that the Senate would be voting on the DREAM Act and a repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (which is a big story in its own right) as amendments to a Defense Authorization [...]

Even if you don’t agree with hateful rhetoric, paying attention to it can be harmful too.

I wasn’t going to write anything today about 9/11 or anything else but this really hit me: Would like to own: “Boutique book publisher and geek James Bridle has printed the 12,000 edits made to the controversial Wikipedia entry for  Iraq War between December 2004 to November 2009 as a 7,000 page, 12 volume set of books.” I [...]