As long as college kids remain edgy, there will be college sex magazines. And as long as there are a few olds with no sense of mockery, they will be scandalized by them. Still! We note that Wesleyan, the most annoying liberal arts school in the US, has launched a new sex magazine called...wait for i...

Tuesday, I took my second shot at Trivia Night at Jimmy's Old Town Tavern in Herndon. As with last time, my tablemates were quite good in getting us past the written-answer qualifying round, where they could use their Internet-enabled cellphones to look up the answers (although I did my part in the ...

PETA ads: sometimes ill-advised, often nonsensical, frequently stupid, always predictable. But at least they were trying. Not any more. They went ahead and hired strippers. Usually the whole "I'd rather go naked" thing features some sexy celebrity. When it just shows the employees of a strip club yo...

I actually don't say a lot of dumb things in class, mostly because I think carefully about what I want to say and also because I am a little smart, but outside of class, all bets are off. I like when I can laugh off my stupid comments like today when someone told me they were presenting on Pierre Bo...

Welcome! You've got layoffs: A preparation guide for AOL employees. Welcome, soon-to-be-former AOL employee! I'm Joe Loong, graduate of the AOL Layoff Class of October, 2007, and I'm here to offer you a few bits of advice gleaned from my own personal layoff experience. I hope that these items will h...

Two ongoing Mideast wars, the biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression, wildfires in Australia, Israeli election uncertainty, simmering crisis in Gaza, multiple nuclear proliferation threats, and the only thing the celebrity-minded simpletons out there can wrap their silly little heads aro...

As a partial reason/excuse for the low activity here these past weeks, a few of our affiliated pages have been developed and are currently in their nascent forms. We have been working on these rather hard and hope they will be become popular and useful.Now, please keep in mind that both of these sit...

I was looking over the big to-do this week about AOL finally baptising the Web publishing unit with the name "MediaGlow." (Incidentally, MediaGlow is pretty anagram-rich -- highlights include "Wild Omega," "Dime Aglow," "Mid Lo Wage," and of course, "Lewd Amigo"). Being outside looking in, I just kn...

Two weeks into the New Year and I'm already falling behind. Before I get into any new business, I decided it'd be best to clean out some entries in my drafts folder, from 2008 and earlier. Here are the entries that I'm officially pulling the plug on (with the dates they were last touched): Religion ...

newVideoPlayer("/Hasidic_Coverup.flv", 506, 423,""); Two robbers ripped off Snatch and stole millions in diamonds by disguising themselves as Hasidic Jews. New folk heroes? The next Somali pirates? No, way too derivative, dudes. Recreate Usual Suspects and we'll talk....