I know the live blogs can be a bit hard to follow once they’re done, so I thought a simple recap post is in order! On episode 12.03 of America’s Next Top Model, the girls get makeovers and do their first photo shoot with Nigel Barker, where they have to “light up” their faces...

I purchased my first firearm, a Mossberg 500 20 gauge shotgun, a few years ago after my house was broken into. I test-fired the shotgun and put it in the bedroom closet, where it remained untouched thereafter. Last year I found myself in a situation where I had to prepare to protect my family and my...

By Joseph Romm An unusually unsustainable device that I own (see below). I'm hoping to expand on the Ponzi scheme discussion in my next Salon piece. So I'm gathering examples of unsustainability at every scale. In asking what is the most unsustainable piece of crap junk you own, I wasn't really thin...

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By David Roberts The Wall Street Journal editorial page has been an organ for intellectually dishonest, fanatically ideological douchebaggery for years and years. That they publish something stupid is scarcely worth noting. But recently WSJ editors made a mistake so egregious it crossed the line int...

[Courtesy of Grantland Cartoons] There's something about an annoying co-worker that's like a Medieval form of torture. Unlike the persistent whistler in a department store, or the airline passenger seated next to you who insists on smacking her watermelon-scented bubblegum all the way from N...

Title: Adjudication Author: myforgottenpain Rating: R Pairing: Vam... with a few surprises...hehehe Summary: I just can't help myself with these "how they got together" based stories... Disclaimer: I don’t own anything connected to HIM, Ville Valo, or Bam Margera. Nor do I imply that in reality th...

Nine years ago, I hung around Las Vegas for about three weeks.  Living on Fremont Street, one of the main roads taking you into downtown Vegas and southeastward to the east side of town, there were no good places to stay.  Only varying degrees of bad ones. One early morning on a cool March...

I said here that video venues threatened the gift of preaching.  And I still mean it- more and more people watching a screen, means fewer and fewer people engaging in the art of teaching a congregation with regularity- communities that once had (or would have had) a teaching team soon will hav...

Economists and politicians may disagree about the economy, but there's no doubt that things are bad. Consider that the Hummer, the veritable flagship of conspicuous consumerism, may be on its way out. Of course, the fact that Hummer could be an endangered species will only increase their value, ...