Uncle Mikey Explains the Inexplicable

...I have to admit that it is extremely impressive that Twitter's #iranelection tag is still seeing no fewer than 30 tweets a second. It...

I find myself unable to care on more than a very basic, entirely intellectual level about what's going on in Iran right now. Some of it ...

I haven't posted for a little while, but today something crossed the plane of my attention that seemed interesting enough to talk about....

There's an unbelievable amount of bullshit circulating about the strain of H1N1 "swine flu" influenza that's broken out in...

It's been a little while since I've felt there was something sufficiently inexplicable to post about, really. The economic mess has ...

I hear a lot of people bemoaning the lack of specifics in President Obama's speech last night. I find myself wondering what planet these...

Despite having been deeply interested in the election, I find myself strangely detached from the Inauguration. I think a lot of it is that c...

It's been a quiet couple of weeks for the topics I like to cover in this column; not so much because nothing's been happening, as be...