This guy seems to have some family issues that his addiction to incoming data via screens is severely aggravating. I experience, on a smaller scale, some of the problems outlined in this article, and, though none of this is particularly new to me, it's frightening to see these habits taken down the slippery slope. Should all of us, and especially people like Kord, make a concerted effort to make screens less a part of our lives, lest we lose our humanity? Or is trying to avoid technology's increasing integration with our every second just being traditionally biased and counter-progressive? I think there is a middle ground where one can be hooked in and focused on doing work while still not ignoring ones' children. Food for thought.

Is it?

Is Lil Wayne's 'Rebirth' really that bad?

Why we need fiction, and why we pretend.

Written with the opinion that this is necessarily a Bad Thing. Revisit; this is interesting.

Wild and sad.

The infamous 'hot coffee' lawsuit.

The always-great Matt Thompson on why episodic news content isn't as helpful as laying a contextual groundwork for a story and then letting readers know about events that happen in that framework.

They're are distraught and stuck in a pre-maturity funk.

An insight on the limited morality of babies and the implications of that for the rest of us societal adults.

There's two big lessons here: 1. Fame makes people do and say crazy things, and other famous people tend to give an equally outrageous reaction to it. 2. Christianity is a joke.

Attempting to answer the question, "what is white culture?" and reporting on those who have tackled it before.

On what Farmville is (not a game) and what it means (nothing good).

"But all of a sudden, for a brief time at least, she's the only real pop star around."

How mobile phone usage differs geographically, and how the difference is lessening.

"I had this vision of the future — a ruined empire, run by number crunchers, squalid and stupid and puffed up with phony patriotism, settling for a long slow decline."

Why I don't think I'm a curmudgeon for thinking the green Iran icons are a joke. "…if you believe for one minute that publicly agreeing with an echo chamber is changing anyone’s mind, behavior, or outlook, you need to stand up, locate your disused front door, walk the fuck through it, and then go spend a full (unwired) day doing something to actually help another person."

"I’ve long assumed that if you followed the news, the stories behind the headlines would become plain."

"The rage and self-loathing associated with hipsters has become more annoying, more naive, and more artificial than hipsters could ever hope to be."

Post-crash style.

Why are so many women willingly giving up their identities and letting their children take over? And are our children being overly coddled as a result?

A stylish, simple, infographical, curt, and summarily realistic at the world in which we currently live.

The ones in the comments are better than the ones in the article. Laughed until I cr*ed y'all!

A blog featuring the best foods Americans ever invented.

Just for reference.

"You can try to know, and own the fact that there are things you do not know, or you can be knowing, and hide your own ignorance with sideways shots of been-there done-that familiarity. You can understand that shit happens and try your best to keep things together and accomplish something against all odds — YOU CAN DANCE, as this album begins — or you can blow up the hospital just to show everyone that at any moment anywhere, a hospital can blow up for no fucking reason whatsoever."

Check out the "Hobo Code" page.

A hobo is a migrant worker in the United States. Hoboes, tramps and bums are generally regarded as related, but distinct: a hobo travels and is willing to work; a tramp travels, but avoids work if possible; and a bum neither travels nor works.

"We had an idea. Go to a place. Ask fifty people the same question. Film their responses."

Basically: It's sometimes amateurish, and there's troubling misogyny, but is that so bad? I say, and I think this is what Kevin is getting at, is that the age-old paradigm of adults worrying about young minds being influenced by media is a bit more complicated -- I think more than a new idea being introduced and etched onto a young mind by 'Twilight', the more likely circumstance is that the ideas therein subtly reinforce existing ideas that the child is already exposed to.