Yes, these are a bit old. Yes, I have been incredibly busy and unable to post. Suck it. First, from May 15th, Fattie gets all upset because her yearbook signature page said the truth: “I just feel like sitting in my room and crying,” said freshman Marie Gray. “I don’t feel like doing anything.” Marie [...]

Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization? For most of us, the idea that civilization itself could disintegrateprobably seems preposterous. Who would not find it hard to think seriously aboutsuch a complete departure from what we expect of ordinary life? What evidencecould make us heed a warning so dire—and how would we go about responding to [...]

So awesome. Worth the hour. The biggest lesson that can be gained from this (along with the entertainment) is that there is a lot of value in what is omitted. The negative image of anything can be just as enlightening as what is visible.

Next year, I should organize a trip so we can all get us crazy european gypsy wives. There’s gotta be a keeper or two in the bunch, and if not, we’ll be in Bulgaria anyway, so the party will be outstanding. I am not be facetious.

Some Russian thinks America is going to implode: MOSCOW – If you’re inclined to believe Igor Panarin, and the Kremlin wouldn’t mind if you did, then President Barack Obama will order martial law this year, the United States will split into six rump-states before 2011, and Russia and China will become the backbones of a [...]

Seriously, Russian pop-culture boggles my mind.

Couple suspected of khat smuggling arrested in Malmö Police in Malmö have arrested a man and a woman on narcotics charges after finding the pair had two suitcases filled with amphetamine-like substance khat. … wait for it… The two were arrested on suspicions of drugs offences, according to the Malmö police department. The couple’s bags [...]

Graduate School in the Humanities: Just Don’t Go Nearly six years ago, I wrote a column called “So You Want to Go to GradSchool?” (The Chronicle, June 6, 2003). My purpose was to warn undergraduatesaway from pursuing Ph.D.’s in the humanities by telling them what I had learnedabout the academic labor system from personal observation [...]

What do Women Want? The men, on average, responded genitally in what Chivers terms “category specific” ways. Males who identified themselves as straight swelled while gazing at heterosexual or lesbian sex and while watching the masturbating and exercising women. They were mostly unmoved when the screen displayed only men. Gay males were aroused in the [...]

Pelosi: Contraception is Good Stimulus For the Economy Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi on birth-control funding as part of the $825billion stimulus package: “Well, the family planning services reduce cost. Theyreduce cost. The states are in terrible fiscal budget crises now and part ofwhat we do for children’s health, education and some of those elements are [...]