Writer Slams Dick Armey, Kiss Army Snubbed
I click on random news items from my Comcast homepage regularly. It’s a bad habit and wastes a colossal amount of time, but I’m pretty much addicted to any link where someone “slams” someone else. Jen...
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The Tale of the Covered Teat
ri·dic·u·lous adj. Deserving or inspiring ridicule; absurd, preposterous, or silly. See Synonyms at foolish. I love a good comedy. Some of my favorites are White Men Can’t Jump, Death at a Funeral...
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The Little Blue Lines
No one likes alligators, really. Most people appreciate them fried or turned into boots, but when they are real, alive, and sidling up to your fishing boat, they are less enjoyable. When you see an...
View ArticleLiving in the Shadow of the North
When I first came to South Korea, a little over two years ago, the international media was ablaze with predictions of doom on the peninsula. The North Korean government declared to the world that it...
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Ten Reasons Why Al and Tipper Gore Should Reconsider
Al and Tipper Gore announced their break up, “a mutual and mutually supportive decision that we have made together.” Here are ten reasons why I think they should reconsider. 10. A few years ago, Al...
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Unprecedented News from Australia
In one of the wildest 72 hours in backroom politics in Australia’s history (which is saying something), Kevin Rudd has been deposed as leader of the Labour Party, and Julia Gillard has taken the helm...
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Five Certain Words
My American friends. Imagine, if you will, waking tomorrow to find that Hillary Clinton had suddenly replaced Barack Obama as President of the United States. Imagine that, while you slept, a gaggle of...
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Knives Out
This is a very exciting weekend for all of us in Australia. Wait, did I say exciting weekend? I meant, ‘carnival of idiocy’. I wish I could say this is because the jetpack I ordered from the internet...
View ArticleThe Bleak Shall Inherit: An Excerpt from David Rakoff’s Half Empty
The Bleak Shall Inherit We were so happy. It was miserable. Although it was briefly marvelous and strange to see a car parked outside an office, the wide hallway used like a street, many stories above...
View ArticleAm I My Other’s Keeper?
There are any number of reasons to refuse friendship to someone. They range from the practical to the personal and will certainly vary by individual. Here are some examples: Lying, cheating, stealing,...
View ArticleWhy Moneyless?: An Excerpt from Mark Boyle’s The Moneyless Man: A Year in...
Why Moneyless? Money is a bit like love.We spend our entire lives chasing it, yet few of us understand what it actually is. It started out, in many respects, as a fantastic idea. Once upon a time,...
View Article“Generation Y” Grows Up
I. For my sixth birthday, my family bought a house. It was 1990, and we Campbells already had the first-generation minivan, the gas grill, and the first kid; all we needed now was a piece of property...
View ArticleAn Interview with West Hollywood Councilmember Lindsey Horvath
The City of West Hollywood will be holding its General Municipal Election this Tuesday, March 8, wherein its citizens will be able to elect three members to the City Council. The City itself is famed...
View ArticleI’m Voting for the Dead Guy
Let me tell you a little story. Perhaps it won’t be very compelling or important, and perhaps the opinion of one slightly unhinged free lance writer means nothing, but the truth is I never voted in my...
View ArticleEarthquakes and Storm Surges
This has been a bad month for earthquakes. The Pacific is working things out with its tectonic plates in a spectacularly violent fashion, affecting those near and dear to us in dramatic and terrifying...
View ArticleMeditation on the Revelation of a Gang Rape of an Eleven-Year-Old Girl and...
I’m a Pittsburgh Steelers fan. A fair weather one—I don’t start paying much attention until the playoffs—but lifelong, and when I give my attention to a game, I’m there all the way. My body reacts as...
View ArticleIt’s Official: The World is Bankrupt (And Soon There Will Be Nothing Left to...
Anyone following the political debate in the United Kingdom will have realised that yesterday London was filled with demonstrators protesting against the British Government’s public spending cuts....
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Blood in the Sand: the 2012 Republican Primary Candidates
As a veteran political reporter I’m always excited for the Republican presidential primaries. You like candy, right? The bright packaging and sugar rush. Let us say you combined the candy of Halloween...
View ArticleOur Sexy Bodies are Being Undervalued!
When I first received the email warning me that a breasteraunt wanted to open in the middle of town, I snorted it off. “Yeah, right,” I thought. “Like they’re going to let them do that here.” The...
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Hustings Hustler: GOP Rocks the Granite State
[for lack of a better name I’ve decided to dub my sporadic political column the “Hustings Hustler.” Because I adore alliteration.] The second GOP debate took place this week in New Hampshire, also...
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