Reflections on Knowledge and Science, and a Firsthand Encounter with the Man Who Invented Immortality


Is it significant that James Frey fabricated some of A Million Little Pieces?


02.14.2006
TOWARDS A TELEVISION-FREE EXISTENCE

Is television impeding our ability to enjoy life?


04.11.2005
A SHORT YET IMPORTANT STORY
The mysterious package lay on the kitchen table for months before we decided it was time to find out what was inside

03.21.2005
REVIEW : PEE-WEE'S PLAYHOUSE DVD BOX SET

In the innocence of youth, we were unable to see that Pee-Wee was way over our 4th grade heads


02.23.2005
A RANDOM SCREED ABOUT SPORTS

A former sports junkie muses on the changing culture of sports and why his own interest in his formerly obsessive hobby is waning


10.15.2004
THE TROUBLE WITH FOX

The station's lack of objectivity and journalistic standards threatens the public interest


08.13.2004
THE MONUMENTAL NEW CULTURE WAR




08.12.2004
A GLARING PROBLEM IN OUR EDUCATION

The American education system has failed to feed our minds


05.29.2004
FILM REVIEW : SUPER SIZE ME

Why the most entertaining film of the year is also a misleading sideshow of excess.


04.26.2004
IRONY : THE GREAT AMERICAN PSYCHE-OUT
Magmascope dissects the irony epidemic and tears it a new one

04.20.2004
THE TIMES THEY ARE-A CHANGIN'
30 Years on, it seems apparent that something isn't quite the same with John Kerry, or television for that matter

02.30.2004
FILM REVIEW : DAY AFTER TOMORROW

Another Hollywood cookie-cutter natural disaster movie, complete with every hackneyed subplot imaginable.


08.29.2003
FILM REVIEW: IF I SHOULD FALL FROM GRACE

Rahul Kamath reviews the Shane MacGowan biopic If I Should Fall from Grace


08.20.2003
NOT JUST ANY MUZUNGU FROM WAZUNGULAND

A review of Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town by Paul Theroux


08.18.2003
IN THESE SMOKE-FILLED ROOMS

A look at the movement to end smoking in Washington, DC's watering holes.


08.10.2003
REWRITING HISTORY

The White House misled the public into war in Iraq. Now the Administration argues it didn't happen that way.


08.07.2003
VOTE FOR ARNIE. HE IS HERO.

Arnold Schwarzenegger is running for governor of California. He explains why he deserves your vote.


07.27.2003
THE VEIL OF LITERATURE

Thoughts on Reading Lolita in Tehran


07.27.2003
FLYING CIRCUS
The secrets of the birdseed sellers of St. Mark's Square


07.27.2003
TURNING A BLIND EYE TO THE MEDIA
The Role of Television and the News in our Society, Its Long Term Value to our Society, and How the Culture of Profit and Entertainment Can Cause Problems in American Society

An uneven career can't keep the best from being stone cold classics

07.26.2003
A NATION OF PILL PAUPERS
Why Spending More Money Isn’t Going to Solve Our Health Care Problem