Category: Culture

The Meltdown King From Mars

The media loves chronicling celebrity meltdowns. Readers, eager for a circus-like break from the depressing grind of politics and world events, just seem to love

Loving Stuff

I have a confession to make: I love my car. It’s not a particularly snazzy or pretty car, mind you. It’s a Honda Fit—a vehicle

Mark Zuckerberg Now Naming Babies

People with unusual names are often asked about their names’ origins. I know a woman named Esmeralda, and many wonder if her parents’ inspiration was

Anxious America

I’m not exactly sure when it struck me. Maybe it was when I brushed my teeth this morning and found the bathroom floor littered with

Oh, Yeah, There Was a Game, Too

Game? There was a game? Yeah, there was a game of some sort yesterday, one in which the Green Bay Packers scored 31 runs on

Getting Snowed

Like much of the United States, Colorado has been in the grip of some extreme winter weather this week. While we dodged the heavy snow

The Golden Rule at the Golden Globes

For award watchers and showbiz prognosticators, Sunday night’s Golden Globes went pretty much as expected. Lots of people hit the “like” button for The Social

Violence, Metal and Jared Lee Loughner

In the wake of Jared Lee Loughner’s shooting rampage in Tucson, Ariz., the press and behavioral experts have swarmed over every bit of evidence from

A Coffee by Any Other Name—and Even No Name

There are several things that I don’t cross: pit bulls, grouchy neighbors and the early-morning lineup of people at Starbucks. The latter haven’t had their

The Real Man on the Street Announcer

It’s easy to look at YouTube with its videos of ranting nobodies, marauding thugs and train-wreck teens and think, “when does the shelf life of

Plugged In Parent’s Guide to Today’s Technology

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