Recent Entries
Nudity in the Floating World
I’ll kick off my final blog with the following image: hairy, shriveled phalluses and sagging, postnatal breasts. Hundreds of them. Everywhere. P... read more
Super Villains, Evil Geniuses and Mad Scientists: A Case Study in Salman Rushdie
Pop culture is riddled with stories of geniuses and psychopaths, the exceptionally brilliant pitted against the raving loonies. It’s a standard ... read more
Rushdie: Society is High, Deep, and Outta Here!
The image is endearing: an entire stadium of people stand on their feet as thousands of cameras flash, each fan holding their breath in anticipation o... read more
Off the Hook 'til Next Sunday Night
Satire. Parable. Cock-and-Bull Tall-Tale. Comic Parody. These are the words I’ve been blinking at for the last ten minutes as I browse t... read more
Fun with Earth Day
What’s better than two notoriously loud-mouthed, spotlight-craving politicians from opposing parties forced to sit beside each other on a beach... read more
Their Tired, Their Hungry, Their Poor: Peace Corps Volunteers Know They're "Wanted"
In 1980's comedy classic Airplane!, Peace Corps volunteer Ted Striker, after introducing basketball to a rural African village and ... read more
Pre-Ordainment vs. Freewill (with some A-list Starpower)
Picture this: Tom Cruise balances atop a speeding vehicle that is somewhere betwee... read more
Passing the Torch- From India to Iowa
On Wednesday, the self-important far-left will gather in droves along San Francisco’s Embarcadero to make life miserable for cars, cops, busines... read more
Unconvention and Insanity in Bessie Head
Elvis Presley once told me, after his mental state had been called into question, that “some of the gnarliest art is c... read more
Tsotsi: Why You Shouldn't Take Public Transit in South Africa (and other life lessons)
Thug. That's the English translation of the 2005 film Tsotsi, and it doesn't take long to figure out why the movie's namesake has adopted this moniker... read more
