Across Africa, a war is being waged on women - but we are refusing to hear the screams. Over the past fortnight, I have travelled into the secretive shadow world that mutilates millions of African women at the beginning of their lives, and at the end. As girls, they face having their genitalia slice...

Editor's note: This article will appear in Wired magazine's April issue, on sale March 24, 2009. It is being published online now because the subject of the story, Leonardo Notarbartolo, was released from prison in Belgium this week. Leonardo Notarbartolo strolls into the prison visiting room traili...

(above : bunch of delusional motherfuckers who don’t have the common sense to know their achievement pales in comparison to the outcome of the Big Sky Tournament final) “I can’t see, if you’re a baseball fan, how you can’t get into this tournament,” insisted Team ...

Puckered Gun Nutz by digby I surrendered in the gun wars a long time ago because, well, they won.It's pointless to keep banging your head against a wall. And frankly, I've come to appreciate the wisdom of giving the Bill of Rights an expansive reasding because it's more fragile than I thought. But I...

There are also lots more hotel sex interviews over at the official Do Not Disturb: Hotel Sex Stories blog. And you can now watch the trailer and get lots of info about the book at Blazing Trailers (which Donna George Storey in fact referred me to - great site if you want to spread the word about you...

The out of competition films have been announced for the Tribeca Film Festival and the movie selections feature Tribeca debuts from Sundance alums like  Steven Soderbergh, Raymond De Filleta and  Melissa Leo. Tribeca is starting to appear more like Sundance after Geoffrey Gilmore left the film fes...

So the goal was to calm my life down after my birthday.I want to exercise, go to bed early, make time to meditate and to be honest, my main goal was to catch up on my netflix.I have had the same 3 movies for 6 weeks! That is not cost effective, people. But life has had other plans for me. My life ha...

Confession: Originally this post was going to be on the Lex Luthor Bailout video that's going around online starring Mad Men's Jon Hamm in a really bad (and visible) bald cap. Yeah, it's cute, it's funny and it's got a lot of Superman references -- but then this puppy came along and cracked me the h...

I got to the theater 10 minutes before the movie started - walked in and I was the only one in there. LOL. I guess no one goes to see R movies at 10:45 AM? I liked the $5.50 ticket myself, but whatever, I had the place to myself so I got to meander and find the best seat, which I did. Trailers start...

Mr. Davis feels that using his belt, and smacking the kids is the proper approach to child rearing. We aren't talking spankings that you hear about. We are talking a man that throws his anger around, spanks with the belt, and demands the respect he is due. Here is a comment I got earlier about this ...