Communism sure is scary. How else to explain its continuing deployment as an all-purpose bugaboo (and thoughtful gift), decades after it posed any real threat, an idea so scary that… Read the rest of the article: "Obama Wants Our Women"

Soon we will be living in a magical future, a world without wires, in which all of our energy and information needs will be met invisibly, pulsing in the air… Read the rest of the article: Century of No Progress

Today's foray into culinary anthropology takes us to the drive-in theater, a once thriving venue in which people watched films from their cars while lined up in a parking lot.… Read the rest of the article: Unpleasant drive-in theater concessions: a look back

Knight and Day, the Tom Cruise-Cameron Diaz action comedy, opens this Wednesday in empty theaters, another of this summer's sausages ground out by the studios, or so's the buzz. Years… Read the rest of the article: Weirdness behind the scenes of Rebel Without a Cause