It’s been two years since the Deepwater Horizon disaster. We may still be dealing with its environmental impact, but a number of recent books suggest that we have now obtained the perspective needed to adequately assess the tragedy. Rising to the top…
Rap has always been about braggadocio. That's not to say that a lot of rappers aren't (or weren't) very tough dudes, but during the era of millennial rap, when video after video was shot with different people standing in front of the same rented Lamb…
Forget CFLs, hybrid cars, and organic jeans. Buying our way out of climate change -- even if it's green consumption -- "won't get us far":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/2/27/how-the-lorax-got-polluted. We've got around seven billion people on Earth…
Steal the ideas of Buddhism's reincarnation, Catholism's confessions, and Islam's pilgrimage to Mecca, and combine them however you want to create your own jumbled yet customized guidelines for navigating in today's modern world. That's basically the…
The way things are going, what with the economy and health care and cultural taboos and "Obama quitting":http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_theticket/20110208/ts_yblog_theticket/michelle-obama-confirms-president-has-quit-smoking, cigarettes are going to e…
