Eyeteeth: Incisive ideas

Thanks to the "230-mile, six-metre high wall, topped with barbed wire and lined with guard towers, that encircles Palestine -- and Beth...

MSNBC reports that a British company is producing plush roadkill toys , just in time for the holidays. First off the production line is ...

Vance at the Walker Design blog points out this (typo-riddled, but nonetheless hilarious) site that uses charts and graphs to analyze rap l...

In a truly bizarre piece in today's Washington Post, staff writer Perry Bacon, Jr., devotes more than 1,400 words to rumors that Barack ...

After five years of legal wrangling, the U.S. Patent Office's Trademark Board has dismissed a complaint by Austin-based Hormel Foods ag...

An ass and a lumbering elephant? Are these the metaphors we want to limit our political parties to? They've served us well -- except, in...

Following in the footsteps of Bill Clinton, Bono, Cameron Sinclair , Edward Burtynzky and others, a new slate of winners has been named to r...

As street artist Filippo Minelli hits the West Bank partition , National Geographic offers a pre-Christmas reflection on the route into Bet...

The stories Janine di Giovanni captivate: A New Jersey-born war correspondent now living in Paris, she’s stared down government guns -- qui...

Don't be misled by the label on your Thanksgiving turkey this week. My friend Tom Elko of Minnesota Monitor looks into the USDA-defined...

When Minnesota photographer Alec Soth and his wife adopted their daughter, Carmen Laura, five years ago, they spent two months in Bogotá, C...

The University of St. Thomas' campus recycling web page features the quoted wisdom of environmental thinkers and spiritual leaders like ...

As a Catholic boy, I can say it: What's up with the jackasses at Notre Dame, the Catholic -- and therefore, I'd hope, Christ-like --...

When KQRS morning show DJs implied that a high suicide rate among native American teens was the result of incest , station managers were qui...

We're late getting to this, but... Now that it's out on DVD, I'm watching the first season of Flight of the Conchords , the hil...

Filmmaker Michael W. Dean is selling DVDs of his 2002 documentary for only eight bucks apiece , but given what it's about -- do-it-yours...

After an incredibly long windup, the nonprofit Twin Cities news site MinnPost.com is up and running. And just one day later, it has a compe...

In my junkmail filter now is a piece of spam headlined, "If you treat your filly as a goddess, why not become a God in her bedroom?...

Painted porcelain soda cans by Chinese artist Lei Xue

Last night, looking for a movie that was in Thai with English subtitles (for a change), I went to see Buddha's Lost Children , a visual...