When the world gets you down, you need a little comic relief. The comedy genre helps you cope and move on not only by allowing you to re-fra...

I think I've catalogued the obvious examples in posts of their own. There are still a few others that don't seem to merit full posts...

One of the most dramatic changes in the visual culture since I was a kid has been the virtual disappearance of make-up and jewelry on girls....

For anyone who was not an adult during the 1950s, the era remains shrouded in mystery. After the rising crime rates of the 1960s (which bega...

Conservative commentators are too slavish to big business interests, leaving only liberal retards to criticize Black Friday. But lacking the...

Comparisons of Israel to South Africa under apartheid or to other European colonialist movements have missed one key difference. That is, th...

Since cultural works keep getting longer and more serialized, we'll probably have to visit the not-so-distant past in order to find some...

From a blog item at the WSJ: Wal-Mart, along with Target, and Sears, are opening their doors for Black Friday on Thursday. Yes, Thanksgi...

Although our society has become so afflicted by obsessive-compulsive behavior, the central feature seems to not get so much attention -- nam...