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  The call went out to Facebook users in Leeds, England, and 350 of them responded.  Summoned by an impromptu posting on the social networking Web site, the 350 showed up at...

  Okay, Mr. Downey, Jr., it’s clear that after the boffo box office on Iron Man that you have just landed yourself a sweet role in an ongoing franchise.  Well, this is America, bud,...

  Not surprisingly, the latest edition of Grand Theft Auto, the reprehensible yet popular (what, something in America is popular even thought it’s tasteless?) video game has arrived...

Dear Internet Friend:   I need urgently your help right up at this minute.  And there is promising to you many hundreds and thousands of dollars for the...

  So Delta and Northwest merge, and Arby’s is buying Wendy’s.  JPMorgan bails out Bear Stearns and a Brazilian sugar company has purchased ExxonMobil.   It’s hard to say what...

  The latest YouTube sensation is a long-suppressed video from 1999, showing edited highlights of a man going slowly bonkers while being trapped in an elevator for nearly two...

  Even as the latest season of  “American Idol” moves into its final weeks, I was on the fence about creating an “Idol”-themed blog for today.  It seemed a little low-brow. ...

  A Pew Research Center Poll reports that Americans believe cheating on your taxes is only nine percent more despicable than cheating on your spouse.  Nine percent!  How are...

This week, back in 1961, Bob Dylan took the stage at Folk City in Greenwich Village for the first time.  And he has a lot to answer for.  Anyone over forty, at one time or another,...

  A radio station in England that broadcasts nothing but a continuous loop of birdsong in a country garden has attracted over half a million listeners.  The sound effect is currently...