Stoner Cinema

April 10, 2011 | Posted in Funny | No comments

Your Highness is the latest pot movie to hit theaters. Here are some of the other classics of the genre. Read more

Embarrassed Republicans Admit They’ve Been Thinking Of Eisenhower Whole Time They’ve Been Praising Reagan

February 22, 2011 | Posted in Funny | No comments

WASHINGTON—At a press conference Monday, visibly embarrassed leaders of the Republican National Committee acknowledged that their nonstop, effusive praise of Ronald Reagan has been wholly unintentional, admitting they somehow managed to confuse him with Dwight D. Eisenhower for years. Read more

What Does Happiness Mean?

February 17, 2011 | Posted in Life | No comments

Oh, to be young again. Three travelers were selected via an online vote to go on a year-long adventure that took them through 186 countries covering 275,000 miles. Read more

Hunter S. Thompson’s 1958 Cover Letter for a Newspaper Job

October 6, 2010 | Posted in Writers | No comments

In October 1958, a pre-fame Hunter S. Thompson applied for a job at the Vancouver Sun. The Ottawa Citizen recently published the quintessentially-Hunter cover letter. Read it here…

At Risk From the Womb

October 3, 2010 | Posted in Life | No comments

Some people think we’re shaped primarily by genes. Others believe that the environment we grow up in is most important. But now evidence is mounting that a third factor is also critical: our uterine environment before we’re even born. Read more…

Why read books if we can’t remember what’s in them?

September 30, 2010 | Posted in Literature | 2 comments

Those were glorious days, the ones I spent reading “Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case,” by Allen Weinstein. It is a book that I, having long had an interest in domestic Communist intrigues, had been meaning to read for years — decades — and I vividly remember that moment a couple of summers ago when, on my way to visit friends in New Hampshire, I found a hardcover copy in good condition at a restaurant-cum-used-book-store. Read more…

Religious Literacy: Americans Don’t Know Much About Religion

September 28, 2010 | Posted in Freethinking | No comments

A new survey of Americans’ knowledge of religion found that atheists, agnostics, Jews and Mormons outperformed Protestants and Roman Catholics in answering questions about major religions, while many respondents could not correctly give the most basic tenets of their own faiths. Read more…

New Rule: Rich People…

September 24, 2010 | Posted in Politics | No comments

New Rule: Rich People Who Complain About Being Vilified Should Be Vilified
New Rule: The next rich person who publicly complains about being vilified by the Obama administration must be publicly vilified by the Obama administration. It’s so hard for one person to tell another person what constitutes being “rich”, or what tax rate is “too much.” But I’ve done some math that indicates that, considering the hole this country is in, if you are earning more than a million dollars a year and are complaining about a 3.6% tax increase, then you are by definition a greedy asshole. Read more…

Roy Lichenstein .AI .PSD Tutorial

September 4, 2010 | Posted in Tutorials | No comments

There are quite a few tutorials showing how to create this type of image, but I decided to try it myself. I haven’t checked any tutorial because I wanted to play with the tools, so the technique might be the same as other tutorials but I really don’t know. Read more…