Every high school athlete remembers their coaches sputtering motivational quotes at them. These quotes seemed only mildly relevant at the time and are downright worthless once you’re old enough to realize that those coaches were just adults who were not particularly popular in high school and not particularly successful in their lives afterwards. One such quote that I can remember from my short-lived high school football days (before I re-purposed my efforts to a much better use of my skills: announcing games for the local TV station) was: “Don’t be …

This one speaks for itself. Solange Magnano, a former Miss Argentina (and mother of two), died of complications from gluteoplasty…or in other words, butt implants. You really can’t make this stuff up. Nice that every once in a while a cause celebre comes around to remind us that vanity is a sin. Why do I envision all this ending up with Brad Pitt’s wife’s head in a box???

An ex-model who was obsessed with maintaining her youthful looks has died  following surgery to make her buttocks firmer. Former Miss Argentina Solange Magnano, 38, …

One salient aspect of America’s collective anxiety over the financial crisis is, of course, the deficit. The nascent “Tea Party” movement has tapped into this anxiety and made it a central thesis of their supposed revolution. Leaving aside for a second the Tea Partiers’ refusal to acknowledge the $5 trillion increase in the Federal debt that occurred under George W. Bush and the fact that they seem hopelessly incapable of suggesting a single rational solution to a problem they consider so devastating, the national debt is a potentially catastrophic problem …

Content creators have no shortage of troubling questions to answer, but media entrepreneur Edo Segal poses yet another one to them:
Media scarcity is dead. In the future my son will have a flash drive that he will pay $29 for that will have the capacity to hold all movies and music ever released by a major label, studio or tv/cable network. It will take 30 seconds to clone the data over the network to a friend who will pay $14.99 for a device with double capacity a year later. How …

Whoever you are reading this blog, I don’t know you. Well, maybe I do know you, but whether I know you or I don’t, I bet that you knew someone like Jon Caren during your adolescent days. Let me tell you a few things about Jon Caren. Life in the relatively upper-middle class hamlet of southwest Beverly Hills was cruising along pretty steadily until one day in 1991 when all of a sudden the powers that be got together and decided who was cool, who was popular, and who the …