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The New Mandate on Defense

Issue #26, Fall 2012 No, it’s not to spend more—it’s to spend less, and liberals should not flinch from that position. Barney Frank There were so many encouraging signs for…
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3084 words)

Since 1979, Brian Murtagh has fought to keep convicted murderer Jeffrey MacDonald in prison

WILMINGTON, N.C. — They are old men now, the doctor and the lawyer, ancient adversaries confronting each other one last time. The doctor shuffles into the courtroom, his feet in socks and…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 5, 2012
LENGTH: 26 minutes (6510 words)

Google's Lost Social Network

Posted about 15 minutes ago Last October, while hundreds of protesters were encamped in Zuccotti Park, a handful of people occupied a glass building in downtown Washington D.C. Wearing sheepish grins…
SOURCE:BuzzFeed
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5654 words)

Bruce Springsteen Raises Cain

Bruce Springsteen on the cover of Rolling Stone. Lynn Goldsmith I wanna go out tonightI wanna find out what I got –Bruce Springsteen, "Badlands" Los Angeles, Tuesday, July 4th One of Bruce…
AUTHOR:Dave Marsh
LENGTH: 30 minutes (7501 words)

The Honor System

Published in the October 2012 issue On or about March 15 of this year, Teller — the smaller, quieter half of the magicians Penn & Teller — says he received an e-mail from a friend in New York. In…
LENGTH: 24 minutes (6238 words)

Let’s Be Friends

Why else would Obama spend hours on a golf course being lectured by Clinton? Barack Obama and Bill Clinton have never been close. Some of their advisers concede that the two men don’t really…
AUTHOR:Ryan Lizza
PUBLISHED: Sept. 10, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (980 words)

It’s Guest Blog Wednesday featuring Sam Spratt!

An IntroductionLet’s get formalities out of the way because I want to talk about things bigger than me when given a Scott Kelby Soapbox.  My name is Sam Spratt and I am a 23 year-old…
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2304 words)

I Was a Teenage Minotaur

At the mall a lady offers me a free sample of zit cream and I’m about to be all sarcastic, like “Look, lady— I’ve got a giant bull’s head. No one’s going to…
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3144 words)

Château Sucker

Above: Pétrus 1961 (real). Below: Pétrus 1961 (fake).  (Photo: Jeffery Salter/Redux) Even at Rudy Kurniawan's coming-out party in September 2003, there were questionable bottles…
PUBLISHED: May 13, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (861 words)
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