When the Japanese create something that’s meant to be cute, it invariably ends up being at least a little bit creepy. Take Hello Kitty. She’s cute, right? Sure, but stare deeper into those widely separated pitch black eyes and tell…

Amusement parks offer a brief respite from the drudgery of day-to-day existence. They also let us cheat death. We get to do things that would usually kill (or at a minimum severely maim) us—things typically involving high velocities across multiple…

Rock and roll is the great equalizer. Not only can it turn a mill worker’s son into a millionaire, it can give ugly men the opportunity to have sex with beautiful women. Pete Doherty the sanitation worker isn’t getting it…

As I write this, a recession is either imminent or has already arrived, depending on which talking head is gabbing on what morning show. Who knows, by the time you’re reading this, we may have entered a full-blown economic apocalypse.…