Filed under: OpEd, TV 101, Reality-Free Because I tend to hang out with mostly hobos and philosophy majors, about 90% of my conversations wind up in hypotheticals about the kind of superpower I would most want. While I don't yet have an answer to that worked out, I have figured out the superpower I ...

Filed under: OpEd, TV 101, Reality-Free I have a 19 month-old son named Keane Black who has recently graduated from a boob-obsessed pink blob into a happy-go-lucky toddler. (Little does he know that, if he follows his father's path, he's only a few decades away from regressing back into a boob-obses...

Filed under: OpEd, TV 101, Reality-Free Michael Phelps recently went from big-time role-model to big-eared pothead in about the time it took for some d-bag with a cameraphone to press "send." This got me thinking about role models in general. Like it or not, most of us wind up choosing role models f...

Filed under: OpEd, Festivus, TV 101, Reality-Free If there's one universal among TV Christmas specials it's this: they all seem to want to tell you what the "true" meaning of Christmas is. There are so many specials trying to explain the true meaning of Christmas, it actually makes you wonder if the...

Filed under: OpEd, TV 101, TV Squad Lists, Reality-Free There's no denying it: we're currently living in a utopia. Not a day goes by that I don't thank my lucky stars that I get to live in the greatest country on earth during the greatest time to be alive. I think even the harshest critic of the cur...