I'm out of the current music scene, but every once in a while come across someone that catches me; Christian Scott's one. I heard hi...

In the continuing disaster that is the mainstream media's EM08 reporting, no less than NPR's venerated "Marketplace" jus...

Huh. In one of those strange confluences of coincidence, Anthony Lane's review of Exit Through the Gift Shop references both Welles...

Renee and I saw Banksy's Exit Through the Gift Shop yesterday and it was pretty funny. It was so appropriate that the crazy shit he ta...

The classic con game 3 card monte employs one of the most effective social engineering tactics ever devised; the shill. When you think a...

Now this is interesting; this article shows how perception is reality. The gist is that pain can be graded according to whether or not the ...

As I listened to Artie Lange guesting on Bubba the Love Sponge, he was of course entertaining and, as usual, poignant. Toward the end Bubba...

Matt Taibbi continues to relentlessly tail the shitheads trashing everything, and we're better off for it. For starters, the timing of J...

[NOTE: Spoiler Alert] By today's standards, an estimated $25-$30 billion art theft seems ho-hum quaint next to a Bernie Madoff ($50+...

Since there's so much crap these days its easy to go around taking pot shots. But in fairness, before I began formally codifying my thi...