In his new book, Drew Pinsky explains how a combination of drunken heiresses, craven scandalmongers, and voyeuristic gossip consumers has created a "perfect storm” of narcissistic behavior."

Genetic engineers will figure out ways to not only screen genes for mutations, but also to alter them in ways that increase intelligence or musical aptitude, augment height, or amplify specific personality traits.

As law enforcement agencies expand their powers of surveillance, we not only tolerate it, we click and click and ask for more.

In an act of seemingly pointless but ultimately revelatory genius, movie director Victor Solomon has meticulously mined all 86 episodes of "The Sopranos" and compiled a montage of nearly 5000 curse words screamed, spat, and muttered on the show.

Exposing the misguided war on saggy pants.

For DIY brewers, Prohibition lasted until 1978. But once unleashed, they revolutionized the industry.

Only movie stars have the opportunity to vent their anger in the kind of showboating, in-your-face, above-the-law manner that we all wish we could engage in from time to time.

Will a three-volume opus about one of the world's most famous pop stars reveal anything we don't already know

How Real Life Superheroes fight crime and help the helpless.

The posterized secret of Obama's success?

Why are calendars thriving while the world crumbles around them?

For zero-tolerance Santaphobes and enemies of the Christ Child, there hasn't been much to celebrate this holiday season.

Why are so many top-tier actors fleeing the big screen?

Just as the impulse to create ever-more repulsive movie monsters ultimately leads to parody, so does the impulse to create ever-more beautiful ones.

AC/DC is thriving precisely for the same reason so many other entities are failing: Because it has made absolutely no effort to update its skill-set, embrace new technologies, or revise its core mission in any way to better match contemporary consumer desires.

Is it even possible to produce a news story on some controversial subject that is so devoid of bias that everyone from Noam Chomsky to Michael Savage finds it sufficiently fair and impartial?

Life has gotten so easy that even the most trivial inconveniences makes us explode with rage.

Can the nation survive without fair and balanced Sarah Palin jokes?

Guinness was once the touchstone of our culture; now it's meaningless.

For those with the unfettered freedom to landscape, lawns are like blogs, only with weeds.