Secret Charlie Rose
Note: Charlie Rose is a talk show host who speaks with notables from around the globe in a casual across-the-table setting that floats mysteriously in a formless black void. Everybody knows that. But what “viewers like you” don’t know is that America’s most respected talk-show host (eat it, King!) isn’t the cool and calculated droid […]
The Ethics of Friendster
It is a cowardly New World in many ways: distance killing enables us to blow people to falafel with the push of a button; comradely criticism is muted by the whine of cultural sensitivity; salesmen flood our inboxes rather than knock on our doors. The realm of dating and friendship, too, has become more efficient, […]
The Freedom to Flash
When I was younger, I remember wholeheartedly embracing that whole freedom of speech thing. After all, those of us raised in the 1990’s are members of the first generation to live in an America with legal flag burning and Banned Books Week at our school libraries. Growing up, I couldn’t wait for my chance to […]
The Burning Bush: Global Warming in America
The Pentagon challenging the Bush Administration’s stance on global warming – sounds like something out of the Twilight Zone, doesn\\\\\\\’t it? But it’s true; last week, a report on global warming commissioned by a high-level Pentagon official was leaked to a British newspaper. The report argues that global warming “should be elevated beyond a scientific […]
Ye Olde Sportynge Columne
For this sports column, I could write an in-depth investigation of the rape trial/basketball season Kobe Bryant is enduring, which would undoubtedly lead to a playpen of bawdy double-entendre to satisfy even Shakespeare – “Kobe just made a hard backdoor move,” perhaps? But alas, the grandest news in all the sporting world seems not to […]
The Passion of the Christ as Article of Faith
It seemed like any other night at the movies. To the left I spotted the requisite young couple on their first date alternating between watching previews and attempting awkward conversation. Down in front lounged the raucous band of teenagers brazenly hanging out on a school night. The smell of popcorn. The sticky floor. The scuffle […]