Apropos of absolutely nothing, I like to bring you, dear reader, the latest Bigfoot reports. Just four months ago, in November 2008, a couple of experienced hunters were in the woods near the town of Zephyrhills, Florida, when they saw something that shocked them: “I went to a hunting spot to ...

Longtime NFL quarterback Brett Favre has told the New York Jets that he is retiring. This past season was his only one with the Jets, after spending most of his career with the Green Bay Packers. Favre had previously announced his retirement after his last season with the Packers, but changed his mi...

A few months ago, I wrote about Indiana University’s exciting new alternate reality gaming research project, Skeleton Chase. The game was a collaboration between professors Anne Massey (Kelley School of Business), Jeanne Johnston (Kinesiology Department), and Lee Sheldon (Telecommunications De...

The day has come for President George W. Bush to hand over the reins of power to his successor. Discussions and debates about his presidency will gradually become the concern of historians. But one thing is already abundantly clear. George W. Bush would have to be the most maligned and unfairly vili...

The torrent of behavioral sink stories from the UK continues. It’s an unholy combination — social decadence and depravity, an appalling level of crime and violence, and the expansion of state power manifested in pointless politically correct micromanagement of people’s lives. Also, check out t...

Recent Posts & Updates on The Banana Republican Will R. Huysman (12/19/2008), "There came wise men from the East to Jerusalem" @ http://thebananarepublican.blogspot.com/2008/12/there-came-wise-men-from-east-to.html: "King St. Gaspar of India was a young, beardless man with ruddy skin who gave fr...

[mood|gun it][music|jack's mannequin - suicide blonde] i rushed through my work today and finished around 11:45am. it was a relief. but then i thought i was gonna meet my dad for lunch and then he couldn't make it. so i waited for him so we could board the train together but he missed that one too. ...

For those of you getting ready to compile your year-end ten-best lists, a complete alphabetical list of movies that were theatrically released in the U.S. is on the jump, from Able Danger and Adam Resurrected to Zack and Miri Make a Porno and Zombie Strippers. Able Danger Adam Resurrected The Air I ...

Filed under: Hot Bodies, Photo Galleries If you thought Bigfoot was hard to locate, try finding a guy in Hollywood who isn't tweezing, waxing, shaving and manscaping themselves to within an inch of their lives these days. Luckily, we've found some for you.... Permalink...

Hi everyone, I’m posting here as a guest on the invitation of Professor Nussbaum. I am sympathetic towards her work, but have also been a persistent –and I hope constructive- critic of it. I teach at a Jesuit liberal arts college, and have just returned from teaching four years in the United Ara...