How to Combat Distracted Walking

Ben H. Winters, 01.05.2010

Coauthor of Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters

Now that the horror of "distracted driving" has been brought thoroughly to light, it is time to turn our collective attention to a related and equally heinous societal scourge: distracted walking.

Goldman Sachs To Launch New HQ!

Tom Gregory, 01.02.2010

Actor, radio personality, and Tony nominated producer

The most financially-efficient building ever constructed, Goldman expects the building costs of its headquarters to have zero-impact on its bottom line, with funding provided by the TARP (Taxpayers Are Really Paying) Program.

Teach Idiotic Design in Schools: The Alternative to Darwinism

Steven Clifford, 01.04.2010

Former CEO, King Broadcasting Company

How could genes that cause lefthanders to smear themselves with ink and injure themselves using table saws be passed on? According to Darwinian theory, these genes should have been selected out.

Party On at the White House

Charlotte Safavi, 01.05.2010

Anglo-Iranian-American Journalist

Apparently, the leap from Silver Screen shindig to White House soiree is pretty seamless these days.

Olfactory Terror at 36K Feet

Lionel, 01.04.2010

lionel@airamerica.com

The criminally fusty are walking dirty bombs. And we should think nothing of informing them immediately that their rankness needs to be addressed.

Sarah Palin: 2009's Paris Hilton of Politics

Stacy Schneider, 01.04.2010

TV legal commentator, author of He Had It Coming, former contestant on The Apprentice

In honor of the New Year, I decided to put together a list to prove my point that in a year where 40 was the new 30, and gray was the new black, Sarah Palin was the new Paris Hilton.

The Creative Process

Jilly Gagnon, 12.31.2009

Writer

People like to perpetuate the idea of creativity as a result of divine inspiration followed by a burst of manic, late-night work, completed in a garret during a thunderstorm. But it's less poetic than that.

Decembuary 0: A Cure for the World's Hangover

Una LaMarche, 12.30.2009

Editor of 'The Sassy Curmudgeon'

New Year's Day is rife with pressure. You then wake up hungover, tired, feeling worse than you have felt in a long time... at least since last New Year's. Which brings me to Decembuary 0.

Consumers Have To Try Harder -- Our Economy Depends On Them

Philip Slater, 12.30.2009

former professor and chair, Brandeis Sociology Department

Consumers are made up largely of people who either work for a living or used to work for a living. Many of them even contribute to the welfare of society. Hence they are not rich. Hence they are losers.

The Entire Decade in Less Than 3 Minutes (WATCH)

Lee Camp, 12.29.2009

satirista, LeeCamp.net

Tiger Woods: My New Year's Resolutions

Jack Hidary, 01.02.2010

Entrepreneur

t's clear from his resolutions that Tiger Woods is moving from the denial phase to the change phase of this life-altering moment.

Snuggies for Monsters

Roy Rivenburg, 12.30.2009

Editor of www.NotTheLATimes.com.

Tired of ravaging Tokyo or climbing the Empire State Building in cold weather? Now there's Snuggie for Monsters, the blanket with sleeves that lets you terrorize humans while staying snuggly warm!