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The Melting Middle Class: Why you are super rich or barely hanging by a...

In a poll conducted in 2007, CBS asked nearly 1,000 people to define their socioeconomic status. Of those polled, only two percent said they were upper...

‘Community’ Tackles Suicidal Thoughts For Their Best Episode Yet

    This a tricky one.  I’ve loved the show Community since I first caught the pilot, and I think it’s a brilliant comedy. Their latest episode, however,...

“Logging In” is all about “Checking Out”

Social Media has always been and will always be a device to promote the insecurities of a negative body image. From the occasional “pro-ana” and...

Reflections On An Affair To Forget.

Our comrades in gossip over at Jezebel have posited some thoughts on the nature of the Mistress, and its ongoing allure in the zeitgeist. Movies are made...

In search of a revolution. The shifting tides of democracy.

    Well it was bound to happen. You draft an article on a swiftly moving uprising in another land and circumstances make it obsolete before...

Love is a Battleground…

Jezebel’s tag line used to be “Celebrity, Sex, Fashion. Without Airbrushing.” Now, it’s “Celebrity Sex, Fashion for Women.” After their latest relationship post, “Twelve Anti-Rule for Love,” I can see why....

CALVIN KLEIN: AMERICAN CALIGULA of The Fashionable Elite?

The following piece comes courtesy of Christopher London, whose blog christopherlondonblog.com is a must read. New York City’s ‘gay and fashionable elite’ came to pay homage and...

Socialite Karen Cord wants to tell you being a divorced socialite is hard work.

If your ex husband refuses or is unable to pay for your lifestyle does that still make you a socialite? Oh dear, time for the...

US Hegemony and the crises called Egypt.

    If one is to gain an appreciation of the intricacies of world wide politics one ought to pay attention to the way the US...

Infamous party crasher Priyantha DeSilva arrested.

Society poser Priyantha De Silva pleads guilty for being a scumbag ...  How much trouble would you go through to be part of society? Priyantha DeSilva has been making...

Heaux Confessionals; “Have you ever been with a black man before?”

"I've never been with a black man before." This is how some of my most grand skankery has come about. Granted, I have heard this...

Death, gloating and the public message boards. Are you ready to be sneered in...

What is it about cyberspace that allows people the comfort to carry on in a way that in most one on one situations they would be...

The lynching of American media and Keith Olbermann.

What to say or think? Last night the contentious newsman (or entertainer depending on whom you ask) Keith Olbermann announced his sudden resignation out...

Cheer the Fxxx Up. A guide.

In his infinite wisdom, my esteemed editor in chief forwarded me a few links this morning to see if I could make heads or...

Observations on the L train. NYC.

It was once remarked the L train that runs between 8th ave and 14th st Manhattan and as far Canarsie, Brooklyn is a cesspool...