by Melissa Tapper Goldman
Did you know that God had a wife? You probably did not! Why would you have, when men have tried to keep the truth from you for so long? Mrs. God, also known as Asherah, was worshiped alongside her husband as a symbol of fertility, until a bunch of…
Is it inappropriate to invoke the phrase “CLASS WAR” these days? It’s scary, that’s for sure — what kind of war is…
Speaking of Lou Reed, when I first saw the title of Jim Jones’ new song, I fervently hoped he might be covering the symphonically depressing classic Danny Boyle used so effectively to soundtrack the overdose scene in Trainspotting. It turns out that the truth is even more odd than one…
“Consider, for example, the curious case of Liz Fowler. Fowler went from being the chief counsel for the…
by Mat Honan
Science, you say this like it’s a bad thing: “The earlier people first begin drinking, the greater their chances of using alcohol as a coping technique to deal with stress later in life, a new study finds.”
That is some headline: “Wildlife officials: Bears will be hungry in spring.” Sadly, this article is so focused on the pressing issue of bears awakening from hibernation with a hearty appetite that it fails to inform of the location in which the bears perform their defecatory routines, but I’m…
Need I tell you to step outdoors? I think not! You know as well as anyone that it is in the mid-70’s right now, a temperature we are not likely to enjoy again this month. It is perhaps not the brightest of days, but who cares? MID-70’s. You need to go get yourselves some of that. But maybe you are at…
“Allen West [R-Fla.] and Michele Bachmann [R-Minn.].” — In an odd and disturbing coincidence, conservative provocateur Andrew Breitbart’s dream Republican presidential ticket for 2012 is exactly the same as my dream Republican presidential ticket for 2012.
The four New York Times journalists missing in Libya since Tuesday have been “found.” They were in “state…
