When I was but a wee lad — in other words, decades before aging baby boomers began fretting about their diminishing brain power — I remember asking my grandmother why she so faithfully worked a newspaper crossword puzzle each day. “They keep the mind sharp,” she replied with a smile....
On June 27, 2011 U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the case Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association that overturned a California law that would have banned children under 18 years old from purchasing violent video games. California argued that it had the responsibility to protect children from...
A baby boomer looks around and back at sights and soundtracks. When a former teen idol starts spewing right-wing hate...
News, previews, interviews, and reviews concerning the 2013 Bonnaroo Music Festival, a large multi-day music and arts event held in Manchester, TN, USA. Since its inception in 2002, Bonnaroo has become the nation's ultimate music destination, garnering an exponentially larger amount of media...
Jazz may not be an obvious source of inspiration for leaders, but leadership at its best is like jazz. Both are ephem...
Norb Vonnegut lends his unique insider’s perspective and his darkly humorous writing to a fast-talking suspense thril...
When the movie Sex and the City 2 came out a couple of years ago it was universally panned as being poorly and lazily written. But one area that critics couldn't agree on was whether or not it was sexist and anti-Muslim, and specifically, anti-Muslim-women. One of the main scences of...
"Information Stories" is a series of online videos designed to show what's at stake for individuals and local communi...
The next step for me in the discipline of Pied-Piper Philology is the exploration of what I call "Pathosophy" (on ana...
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