Seminal punk legend Ari Up just died. She sang for The Slits, had dreadlocks down to the floor, and is credited for helping put women on the punk map. She also followed the inexplicably hip Rastafarian religion, so when she was first diagnosed with breast cancer, she refused a mastectomy. This is ...
In Irshad Manji's book The Trouble With Islam, she blames a random group of desert fanatics for hijacking Muslim culture and taking it from an intellectual religion of peace to a closed-minded religion of war. Her hypothesis is pretty solid, but you can"t help thinking, "Why was their ...
America's midterm elections are on Tuesday, but they"ve already voted for their favorite news network, and it sure as hell ain"t the Microsoft/National Broadcasting Company. Have you seen their latest advertising campaign? How could you not? It's the biggest campaign in the network's ...
The recent study that showed atheists know more about religion than believers says tomes about the whole debate. Christians aren"t in it for the details. They"re in it for the good vibes. So why, pray tell, is a mammoth intellectual such as Christopher Hitchens wasting his last days ...
UCLA recently hosted a panel to discuss youth culture, and as "one of hipsterdom's primary architects," I was asked to come along. I showed up late for the event wearing nothing but a pair of pants and holding a bottle of beer, treating the whole scene like the cafeteria in Animal House, ...
The left isn"t good at many things, but they are Iron Chefs at the art of being embarrassing. They are so skilled at it, they take it beyond cringe into actual "douche chills" that send goose pimples up your arms and across your scalp. It's surprising, really. You"d think rolling ...
Bobby Seppo is a third generation New Yorker and a US Army Sergeant who has served two terms in Iraq. Though he is technically done his service, he just volunteered to go back and will be leading reserves in Afghanistan by the end of the month. This is a transcription of a conversation we had at a ...
Laughing your face off happens a lot more when you"re a kid than when you"re old. Remember those break downs in grade school when you"d have to hide your head behind a textbook because you were laughing so hard? Then the teacher throws gasoline on the fire by telling you to, "Stop ...
When people say "diversity is our strength" they must be talking about car insurance pamphlets because that's about the only place I see different races chilling out. They may be Photoshopped together from multicultural clip art but they are partying. Nobody can deny that. You also see a ...
