MILWAUKEE (AP) — PepsiCo Inc. is facing criticism for an iPhone application that promises to help men “score” with two dozen stereotypes of women by giving users pickup lines and a scoreboard to keep track of their conquests. An apology by the company – which is using the app “Amp up before you score” to [...]

Confessions of a Middlebrow Professor: What has been lost, according to Jacoby, is a culture of intellectual effort. We are increasingly ignorant, but we do not know enough to be properly ashamed. If we are determined to get on in life, we believe it will not have anything to do with our ability to reference [...]

‘Going Rogue,’ a memoir by Palin, now due this fall “Governor Palin has been unbelievably conscientious and hands-on at every stage, investing herself deeply and passionately in this project,” said Jonathan Burnham, publisher of Harper. I read that as “Governor Palin has been very cooperative with her ghost-writer and actually talked to him/her.” The publisher [...]

How to Succeed at Sex Without Really Trying I’m not going to quote the snide bitterness and cut right to the hilarious bits: 1. Never, ever, be friends with a girl. You want to avoid the “friends zone.” You want to be in the “no-friends zone.” Have no friends. Sarcasm does not suit you, my [...]

America’s War on the Overweight Practically the minute President Obama announced Regina M. Benjamin, a zaftig doctor who also has an M.B.A. and is the recipient of a MacArthur “genius grant,” as a nominee for the post of Surgeon General, the criticism started. The attacks were vicious—Michael Karolchyk, owner of a Denver “anti-gym,” told Fox [...]

Man bound over for trial in hammer attacks Bryson and King knew each other at school and had spent time the previous day playing “Dungeons and Dragons” with Shokrian, who was acting cocky during the game, according to Detective Nathan Williams. Shokrian was directing the game as Dungeon Master, and King didn’t like what he [...]

Free Logic Books – Awesome. The UK to ban ‘Spice’ – Muad’dib is not amused. Persistent Myths in Feminist Scholarship – Whoa. Possible proof that Mars used to harbour life – Theoretically, people, keep your pants on. My computer is acting very strangely. I suspect I will be in a world of hurt very soon [...]

Grammar pet peeves: ”Across the world. Last time I checked, the world was still round. You don’t go across something round, you go around it.” ”Refer back, revert back, return back. I guess folks don’t understand that the re- prefix means back, again, anew.” ”Wa-lah. I’m not sure how it is spelled, because it is [...]

Pelosi’s New House Un-American Activities Committee When Nancy Pelosi convenes her new House Un-American Activities Committee to call forth ObamaCare protestors (see her “‘Un-American’ Attacks Can’t Derail Health Care Debate“), I hope she’ll find room on the docket for a few other, arguably more egregiously un-American activities—and bring their perpetrators to account: I recommend reading [...]

Why Everything Sucks: A Simple Explanation What happened was, in a strange kind of quirk of fate, youth began to be celebrated by society. This was in a way that it had never been at any time in human history. What used to be celebrated was experience, and cleverness. But what became valuable was youth [...]