You knew it was coming, and here it is right on time. The Republicans are scared of losing control of the House and Senate because…

Reading this entry at Yahoo! News about a Temple University prof’s multi-year Starbucks-based modern culture research project, the only thing that struck me as amazing…

Liquid Cereal - The BevNET.com Review “With a slight thickness to its body, this product also feels somewhat like cereal in your mouth. The greenish…

Christian Evangelicals are taking their intolerance of homosexuals (Editors’s Note: Lance Arthur is a professional homosexual) to the courts in order to make it legally…

Maybe it’s just me, and maybe I’ve watched too much West Wing over the years and can’t separate drama from politics (not that there’s much…

Muji, the un-design company (no labels, no colors, no nothing) is sponsoring their first MUJI AWARD International Design Competition The theme is “sumi,” and they…

Everyone seems to be all aflutter about tonight’s 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, but is anyone else worried/excited about June 6th? After all, the…

High fuel costs are eating the airlines alive, causing the already in-bankruptcy fliers to go deeper into the red, and the just-making it guys to…

The Gay Games happen every four years, just like all teh other celebrations of athletic prowess, only with more style. One doesn’t have to be…

And you thought you felt good? A 37-year-old man in England has consumed 40,000 ecstasy tablets over the course of 9 years, starting at a…

A Tupelo, Mississippi-based Christian-themed organization of far-far-right minded individuals is peeved at Wal-Mart for actually selling “Brokeback Mountain” on DVD. The American Family Association, representing…

Finally, I am saved through the power of Jesus and Betty Bowers. And also, the unavoidable evidence concerning the President’s “homosexual tendencies.” A Constitutional Amendment…

George Holliday was the man who videotaped the beating of Rodney King 15 years ago. Then the LAPD officers involved were acquitted of all charges,…

Incredibly, incredibly, incredibly, incredibly offensive. And also: hilarious….

Somebody sure is pissed off, but not, perhaps, at whom you may think. Then again, with things the way they are politically in this country,…

It is not enough, apparently, to be able to sit in your car and avoid walking the extra steps and using the extra energy required…

Oy. This Washington Post article details some of the pending legislation (36 bills in 18 states) that would allow care providers, and in light of…

Am I the only one who finds this headline suspiciously hilarious? …

Remember that show that ABC was supposed to show last year, about the families in Austin, Texas who had to choose between six other families…

In the neverending battle to get faster Internet access to your house, the titans wielding the fiber are proposing an interesting alternative to higher fees…

Another thing I had no idea was going on but suddenly now, knowing about it, it all makes perfect sense, particularly in this city of…

‘Contradiction in human affairs, such as the possibility that injustice can drive people to do horrible things, is routinely deplored and dismissed in these troubled…

I have to say that I love Choire’s latest web site design. Minimalism has always been Google’s forte on the Web, but I think Mr….

What do you know about Dubai? Do you know where it is, or what’s going on there, or that it’s become the center of the…

You think you’ve got problems? Consider the neighbors of Don Bertone, who played police radio broadcasts, Spanish dance tunes and “shrill oscillating tones” at all…

Apparently, those of us who think we’re happier having made the decision that the last thing we need to add to our lives is a…

Having worked in the online marketing field for the past five years and having also managed to escape with the tattered remnants of my deep…

I have a feeling that if you’re ever stuck for a name that will really stump the rest of the bar when it comes time…

The new Dodge Challenger “concept” looks exactly - exactly - like it just rolled off the assembly line circa 1971. Round headlights and all. Since…

I’ll have to rethink my ideas of a bad travel day after reading this story about the passengers of an Air India flight from Los…

How are you going to spend the long hours of nothingness after the presents have been opened and you’ve sung your carols and drank your…

Interesting story from the New York Times (although I’m linking CNET News.com instead, so no one has to register) about the man who invented the…

In case you don’t check out the other Lance Arthurcentric web site (or, more precisely, one of the others), I posted an old chestnut in…