Es ist die Endphase der Conference-Spiele im College Basketball. Bevor am nächsten Sonntag die NCAA (US-Hochschulsport-Verband) die 65 Teilnehmer der March Madness festlegt, stehen in 30 der 31 Conferences die Playoffs an. Die großen, wichtigen Conferences fangen erst in dieser Woche an, mit den F...

Saul Alinsky's Thirteenth Rule:  "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." He wasn't kidding.  In his handbook for community organizers, Rules for Radicals, he made it clear that the way to succeed is to demonize your opponent.  Pick someone y...

Es ist die Endphase der Conference-Spiele im College Basketball. Bevor am nächsten Sonntag die NCAA (US-Hochschulsport-Verband) die 65 Teilnehmer der March Madness festlegt, stehen in 30 der 31 Conferences die Playoffs an. Die großen, wichtigen Conferences fangen erst in dieser Woche an, mit den F...

It was just clear that Isabella wasn't performing. And by "wasn't performing" I mean "wasn't having seizures." Whatever. She was cast for a reason, you know? Picking right up from yesterday... 17. Tahlia   Ugh, this bitch. Look, no one's saying that burns ma...

I love the New Yorker, my parents always subscribed, I admit the cartoons were my major focus. Van Morrison was in NYC last week and the New Yorker did a piece on him: Drive-by Dept. Listening Party Van Morrison Lakeside Lounge, on Avenue B, is known for many things: close quarters, cheap drinks, a ...

.imageRight{float:right;padding:5px;border:0;} …when I finally complete nine months of slowly coming off a very high, prolonged dosage of prednisone, which was prescribed to beat down sarcoidosis, which was diagnosed back in 2001 and decided to come out of remission and kick the mother-truckin...

One of the advantages of working for an organization with such a great music presence is that artists drop by on occasion for interviews and in-studio performances. When that happens, sometimes it's possible to listen in on those 3-to-4-song mini-concerts (often hanging out in the control room, out ...

Hip und cool wären wir alle gern, nicht wahr? Nicht untergehen im Mainstream, uns mindestens in den geheimen Winkeln unserer Seele abheben von der breiten Masse und ihren Vorbetern. Unauffällig auffallen. Hervorstechen, aber so, daß keiner denkt: Der, die will etwas besonderes sein. Den besondere...

John Lennon - The Life by Philip Norman Woman, I know you understand The little child inside the man... The first paragraph of Philip Norman's fat new book John Lennon: The Life is so clever that it needs to be quoted in full: "John Lennon was born with a gift for music and comedy that would carry h...

"I had a consultant come to our ministry many, many years ago and say, 'What's the most important thing you can teach non-Christians that they don't know?' And I said, 'That's easy. They don't know who God is. They know that God is, but they don't know who He is. His nature and character have been c...