In my research over the past several weeks on the changes in visual style during rising vs. falling-crime periods, the two strongest things ...

[Updated with comments on songs, except for '92 and '93, which I'll do later . Nah, that'd take too long, and I think you ge...

Since people treat their pets a lot like their own children, have they started to confine their animals indoors all the time too? I walk all...

My realtalk buddy and I got onto throwing out some dead giveaways that a guy is queer, things that are clear once you've seen enough of ...

When a society is heterogeneous to the naked eye, it winds up stunting their moral sense, or corrupting it if it was already developed. Ther...

Going over many sources of slang, one thing that pops out is how abysmal the success rate is for portmanteau words. That's where you cut...

Let's follow up with some harder data on the decline of our oral culture . I took the Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang (2005) and check...

By the '80s, ideology had mostly withered away, although the drive away from conformity continued unchecked. This opened up a non-dogmat...

My realtalk buddy and I were trying to make heads or tails of the fact that suicides in the military now outnumber combat deaths. He was in ...