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...

Younger, Cell Phone-Only Households Listen to Lots More Radio: Nielsen Media Buyer Planner, MD“The findings from the Nielsen pilot underscore the urgent need to include cell-phone-only homes in radio ratings.â€� Clear Channel president and CEO John Hogan made a dig at Arbitron, Nielsen’s co...

HAPPY 3-11 DAY!!!UPLFITER ALBUM NEWS!!SPRING & SUMMER TOURS ANNOUNCED!!MERCH SPECIALS & CONTESTS!!ONLINE VIDEO CHAT WITH 311 TONIGHT!! 3-11 DAY (3/11) is a day of celebration & mutual-appreciation. 311 fans celebrate & appreciate 311. And 311 celebrates and appreciates its fans! We THANK YOU all for...

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...

The hill above was a steep one, covered in dead, brown brush. The gnarled, bare trees with trunks the color of a harsh gray crawled up the hill, growing denser in their efforts. We stood there, at the bottom, throwing sticks into a creek, hoping they would drown. Naturally they should float down wit...

I am very good to our pets. Excellent even. I am a superior pet owner. I love them and they love me. I feed them and pet them. And make goo-goo-gah-gah noises at them. Well, most of them. I've never petted Squirtle the Turtle. Actually, I've never even touched him. Gives me the heebie jeebies to eve...

“He just snapped” Machine gun-toting man leaves 12 dead across two Alabama counties — including his own mother and girlfriend — in a bloody rampage. The death toll in Tuesday’s deadly shooting spree in south Alabama rose to 12 Wednesday as police searched for clues into...

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...

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IS OBAMA AN AUTHORITARIAN? I wrote the article below for the Philadelphia "Bulletin" and it appeared there on 10th. I think its interest is not confined to Philadelphia, however, so I reprint it below. My many academic papers on authoritarianism can be accessed here Among psychologists, the word "au...