The final Twilight is coming out this Friday, and I am so pumped! We can’t stop writing about it. At the same time, I HATE THESE MOVIES! I also love them, but I’m ready to be done with this quintilogy. Read our review of Breaking Dawn Part One. As most of the movies’ fans know, the leading vampire hunk and [...]

Presidential politics. It’s about as close as you can get to A Game Of Thrones in America. Tricks. Political feints. Lies. These elections bring out all of it. While the stuff that gets play on the television is already enough to make us long for an emperor, the truly wicked remains largely unknown. Yes, now and then there are twitter scandals, [...]

Yes We Can? My grandmother sent me an email last week with a hip, new video about electing Barack Obama. If you can’t tell, I use “hip” ironically. It’s not a huge surprise that my grandmother, an elderly African American swept away by Obama fever four years ago, would still want to help engage the youth. I’m sure this email, [...]

Mitt Romney’s tour abroad (which includes all of two European countries and Israel) has produced some interesting commentary from the would-be next president. No doubt most of these comments are blips on the radar, but with enough points on the page we can start to connect the dots. Late last week an anonymous foreign policy advisor within the Romney campaign [...]

So, here we are. For whatever reason, you saw the title of this post and thought it might be worth it to stop on by and bone up on your voter suppression skills or commiserate with others about flagrant disregard for U.N. sanctions. Maybe you’re looking around and noticing a lot less familiar faces enjoying their petro-dollars in your crush-my-people-for-personal-glory [...]

If you live anywhere between Indiana and Washington DC, odds are good you either lost power for sometime, still don’t have it, or know someone without it. In my region, AEP and other providers are calling as many as six more days before electricity is fully restored. That means hundreds of thousands of people (millions during the first few days) [...]

Someone I know is going GREEN party this year. It seems another life-long Democrat has decided enough is enough. It’s time to go with a party that can get things done… or at least watch that party impotently protest while others do things! And I could go on the usual tangent about how this is the Ralph Nader effect or the [...]

I learned a weird fact this week. Did you know that, despite the ever-increasing costs of higher education, almost all not-for-profit universities subsidize their every student? Huh, how does that work? College is crazy expensive and now it turns out that everyone is getting a break? According to a 2004 research article by Gordon C. Winston,  public universities use state [...]

I’m in a pretty foul mood today. I’ve been sick this week, I have about a million things to read, and I hate formatting resumes. Blah blah blah. Why should you care? Because what I’m trying to say is I’m busy, and I just don’t have the time or will to slog through 30 news stories. Most of what you [...]

Today is an auspicious day for Amazon. The U.S. Justice Department announced yesterday that it will bring suit to Apple and a cabal of five book publishers for antitrust violations. DOJ alleges that Apple, Macmillan, Penguin, Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster set up a series of secret meetings to work around Amazon’s launch of the Kindle in 2007. As it [...]

This has been an auspicious week for horrifying news. There are a lot of tragic stories in play that have taken a turn for the odd. Let’s get right into it. Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales is about to be charged with 17 counts of murder and 6 counts of assault for allegedly gunning down 16 people.  That’s pretty awful, and [...]

Community is back and I am waaaaaaaaaaay too excited to be worrying about real life. As we, and many others have written, the show was forced on hiatus to make room for 30 Rock and Whitney. Now that NBC’s experiment in taking away things we love is over (for now), we can get back to the best show on television. [...]

It’s been a banner week in politics… well actually it’s been a banner week in space politics. Mass Effect 3 came out and pretty much nothing else matters. The intro movie of this game is, literally, better than anything I’ve read all week. But since video games aren’t my schtick, I have to write about stinky old politics instead. Shall [...]

So comes and goes another Super Tuesday. If the preliminary results are any evidence, there is virtually no change in the dynamics of the race. Mitt Romney continues to crawl toward the nomination while failing to get a big win. Rick Santorum maintains just enough momentum to be a spoiler, but not enough to be THE GUY. And Newt Gingrich… [...]

So it’s been a little while since I’ve sat in the political update driver seat. Somewhere after Santorum started making a comeback out west, I decided I didn’t really care to read the news for a couple weeks. As it turns out, I haven’t missed a single thing. Mitt Romney still may or may not be the guy. Santorum is [...]

I took a little nap yesterday evening, and when I woke up, Catcher’s Mitt Romney had pulled down a predictable win in Florida with about 46% of the vote. As I reflected on this, I started thinking about Romney–not as the amateur politico I like to play, but I thought about him like an actual voter should. Early voting for the [...]

2011 has been THE year of partisan politics and class conflict. Whether you stand to the left or right, Congress’s 84% disapproval rating can attest to the general frustration with politicians. While a lot of good and bad things have gone down this year, I’m going to narrow it down to the ten that I think were the biggest and [...]

I went on a political tangent that mirrored a lot of political events this week, so today we are going to look at some of the recent events in politics that relate to technology. With that in mind, let’s talk about…SOPA. The Stop Online Piracy Act and its congressional counterpart, Protect IP have been the talk of the tech industry since mid [...]

Everyday it feels as if that old idiom, better the devil you know than the one you don’t, becomes a little more true. In this case, the devil we know is Barack Obama, the once hopeful presidential candidate, who promised to clean-up business as usual in Washington. On the other end, we have whoever makes it out of the Republican [...]

Newt Gingrich may accidentally be the next president of the United States. His numbers are astronomical and still on the rise. Like Cain, Perry, and Bachmann, he is the current flavor of the month, but his turn comes at 30 some days before the Iowa Caucuses; his fifteen minutes in the sun may equate to primary votes. This could transform Newt [...]