Common Sense

Slate seems to be taking the approach that sex sells because they have several stories today about sex.
Probably the creepiest is William Saletan discussing lowering the age of consent. He breaks consent down between three distinct areas: biological readiness which is around 12, age of cognitive readiness which is around 16 and age of emotional […]

I’ve been wrapped up in work at the Trib. It is football season after all. That means I work 5-6 days a week, daytime on Mondays and that my sleep cycle is thoroughly wrecked. I haven’t gotten a decent 7 hours of straight sleep in forever.
And I’m practically living off of take-out Chinese food and […]

Kathy Griffin managed to get the one reliably irate group to help spread her name around town: Christians.
PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. (AP) — Members of a Christian theater troupe are spreading the word that they’re irate about Kathy Griffin’s off-color speech in accepting a creative arts Emmy earlier this month.
The Miracle Theater in Pigeon Forge spent […]

I spent four minutes just now watching our president speak about the surge’s success in Anbar and I swear if I hear about Anbar being a success anymore, I’m going to hit someone over the head with my cane!
You know how we drove out AQI (all 200 of them) out of Anbar Province? We gave […]

President Bush has decided, after sober assessment of our military and political victories on the ground in Iraq, that he can drawdown 30,000 troops by the middle of next year. I think, this is a reasonable move on his part.
Really, is it so hard to write the truth at the Washington Post? We all know […]

I wanted to write something beautiful and poignant about the 6th anniversary of the tragedy, but I don’t have the time or the inclination.
In truth, I’m still as angry and confused about that day as I was standing in the counselors’ office at MCC watching the events unfold live. I was livid that it was […]

All the guys at CHUD took the time to bad-mouth, trash-talk and generally snub (and that’s putting it kindly) Rob Zombie’s version of Halloween.
This is in stark contrast to my review, which was generally glowing with praise. All the things they hated, were things I found great. It seems like their critique is that Zombie […]

Apparently, the chick from High School Musical (hold on, let me look up her name) Vanessa Hudgens has some totally, not anywhere near safe for work, full-frontal nudity pictures floating around on the Internet.
I agree with the dude from The Superficial, her rep is an idiot for even confirming that it really is her. In […]

I’m referring, of course, to Halloween. Christmas is nice and all, but you have to admit, Halloween is a more fun holiday. There is dressing up, a lot of fun ghost stories, the weather is usually great, candy and, if you go to the right Halloween party, a very good chance of getting laid. Nothing […]

My was a mix of some really good stuff followed by a really bad day today.
Saturday, Space Monkey went to see Rob Zombie’s re-invisioning of Halloween. We were surprised at how far hot chicks in movies titled Halloween have come in the past 30 years. I’ll do a review in the next couple of days, […]