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I am a regular guy who has experienced various life events. And as a regular guy who has experienced various life events, I will on occasion answer letters from my readers seeking advice about similar life events they may be encountering. In a regular way. Dear Regular Guy, I would …
That one finds, in the infant days of the 21st century — indeed, if certain overzealous interpreters of the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar are to be credited, the very end of human civilization! — a widespread resistance to well-established facts about human behavior continues to surprise. The world probably isn’t …
Attention media professionals, academics, authors, popular culture enthusiasts, seekers after wisdom, and other information-needing individuals and/or organizations: today is your lucky day! For today is the day I , Leonard A. Pierce Jr., announce that I am available for consultation on any and all topics — at a highly reasonable …
Food-addicted man-hog that I am, I somehow manage to miss key developments in industrial nutrition technology. I often fail to see the consumption-enhancement forest for the new-flavor-of-Slurpee trees, to put it another way; by way of example, despite its fascinating nature and evocative name, I only just yesterday found out …
The state of the nation as Baby 2012 makes its squalling entrance is extremely hard to gauge. The answer to the question of where we are politically, as is often the case, depends entirely on where you are standing, and what sort of filter you are looking through at the …
Welcome to 2012, Ludic legions! Whoa, I was channeling Stan Lee for a minute there, he must have gotten bottle service and nodded off. Anyway, I’d like to take this opportunity to usher in the new year and let you know what’s up for this site and for me in …
Also country, dance, and, well, everything that isn’t metal or rap. There’s a lot of ladies on this list, and a lot of stuff from foreign countries, and two records by Texas-based singer-songwriters on MCA’s phonus-bolognus country subsidiary. I realize that my picks this year read like those of a …
People are still making rap music! Can you imagine? Maybe it’s not a trend after all. Foxy grandma even noticed some beats being jacked when she was watching Glee last week. Thank goodness for the internet, where we can keep on arguing about ‘relevance’ and ‘credibility’ until the return of cows. …
If you get paid to write about music, you have to make top ten lists at the end of the year. If you fail to do this Dave Marsh comes to your house and reads you Bruce Springsteen on Tour: 1968-2005 in its entirety. So, here goes, first with my metal …
George Orwell was right about a great number of things, and he was right about them in an extremely eloquent and insightful way. Never was he righter, and never more insightful, than in Chapter III of Down and Out in Paris and London, where he describes the stroke of bad …
As the Occupy Wall Street movement drags on, and law enforcement agencies make the foolish but predictable decision to respond to its persistence with violence, a fundamental contradiction begins to make itself known in our political lives. It has always been a basic assumption of even the most partisan political …
Now, before we get too far into this, let me clarify something: I am not arguing that the lottery is, in and of itself, a good investment. The odds, as everyone should be aware, are extraordinary remote, and the argument that it is a kind of regressive taxation on the …
It’s not that I feel sorry for Herman Cain. I don’t. He is, after all, a heartless rich asshole who couldn’t care less about people like you an me, an intellectual flea who only has one idea and a bad one at that, and very possibly a serial sexual abuser. …
I made a fake Muslimgauze song out of found sound tidbits from FreeSound UK. I think you’ll agree it’s pretty good, if you ignore its total lack of rhythmic coherence and song structure. 01 Jamila Fear of Flying
Hey, cats and kittens! My new book, If You Like the Sopranos, is out today! Your local bookstore is just waiting for you to stop by and pick up a copy; you can also order it online from, among other places, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Powell’s, and the publisher, Limelight …
