Church wants gays but entertainment doesn't?

West said he saw the light after finding out that his cousin was gay. All we need is for every homophobe to have their favorite cousin come out!

The cool thing about Keds

Mischa Barton's latest advertising campaign for Keds has a few eyes rolling - again.

The Israeli lobby takes some heat

Does the stink of anti-Semitism linger behind the routine critiques of the Israeli lobby?

National Geographic Weighs in on the Tyco Mystery Beast

Last week, National Geographic News did a little article on that mysterious, wonderful creature who appeared in Tyco's back yard in North Carolina.

The slender creature has a kangaroo-shaped head, big upright ears, and a long ratlike tail.

I think it sounded prettier when I described it a couple of weeks ago, but never mind. National Geographic probably knows more about what animals look like than I do.

Animal Pharm

Introducing Omega 3 fatty acids to pigs is the latest in “pharming,” a process using transgenic animals (often food) as the vehicle for delivering supplements and medicine.

Guilt-free bacon

The next minor miracle of genetic engineering may appear at the breakfast table in the form of heart-healthy bacon. Popularizing consequence-free bacon may, in the long term, promote ill health by reinforcing the taste for fatty meat in the American diet.

Spree shopping and the foreign mass market

A recent article in Women’s Wear Daily reported on a shopping trend amongst teenagers in Singapore. Known simply as “sprees,” these mass orders from online retailers are just the latest evidence of the westernizing and globalization of seemingly not-so-foreign-now markets markets.

Chick-lit goes global

Chick-lit is growing in popularity as a genre -- both in the Western world where it started and, increasingly, further east.

McDonald's tee shirts stink

Is the image of what some see as one of America's worst gifts to the modern world really what anyone needs to make a fashion statement?

Bird Flu Revue

There was a neat article in the New York Times last week about a growing fear accompanying the spring bird migrations in the Republic of Georgia.

In the early morning hours, the cobblestone alleys that wander this city's slopes are normally crowded with schoolchildren, walking in groups with their backpacks and books. But such sights have lately become rare.

According to the article, school attendance has dipped to half of its normal levels. It’s an interesting way of looking at the avian flu virus, and the way natural processes like a March thaw and the migration of birds can take on a doomsday aspect when everybody's waiting for the big leap of an animal-to-human pandemic.

I Broke my Back on a $10 million Mountain

Supporting actor Randy Quaid asks Brokeback Mountain producers $10 million for a vocabulary mistake.

Reconstructing lives

Sometimes plastic surgery isn't just a disturbing Sweet 16 present.

Another Liar…oops it was just in her book proposal

Former Times of London fashion reporter caught using others’ materials, called fashion’s “James Frey”

Teaching Traumatized Students 101

In the wake of Katrina, the long-deficient New Orleans public school system is crying out for help, but not getting an answer.

Just like everyone else, your face will disintegrate...

And there's not a damn thing you can do about it. But that won't stop billion dollar anti-aging cosmetics companies from trying to convince you otherwise.