The Associated Press has long since carried the story and we've read the New York Times two-day analysis: Dennis Rodman has indeed been to North Korea, and strange as it may seem, he's the only American to have publicly met with its 28-year-old leader, Kim Jong Un.

VICE, who produced...

It was in Starship Troopers, otherwise known to my generation as the best "B movie" of all time, where the commander said: "Figuring things out for yourself is really the only freedom anyone really has. Use that freedom. Make up your own mind."

Well, who would have thought that...

My answer is: No, I don't think we should.

The following is my thinking on the situation:

Syria has the largest chemical arsenal in the Middle East. To use them, the Assad regime relies on highly trained teams to mix the chemicals, and deliver them in rockets and missiles....

There is no peace in Israel or Gaza. There is no real solution. There is nothing either side can get behind and sell to their people. Without a final-status agreement, all negotiations between Israel and Hamas start with an act of war. To break this cycle, the Israelis and the...

The following is an introduction to Jesse Aizenstat's Surfing the Middle East: Deviant Journalism from the Lost Generation.

Major in political science. Graduate with honors. Fail to find a job. Go surfing in the Middle East.

In 2009, I graduated from college in San Diego, California,...

In a world where nothing is done without first calculating the mean-old cost/benefit, there is a dude named Tommy Alexander who just does it for the love of it. This former college baseball player turned guitar-playing vagabond has started something of a gypsy record label, gathering the best...

In case you missed it the other week, the U.S. Justice Department filed suit against Apple and some of the "Big Six" publishers for conspiring to raise the price of e-books. Of course the Big Six are guilty. They're scared that online e-books sellers like Amazon and Barnes...

That's right, sports fans: Steve Jobs is helping me design my hardcover travel-adventure book, Surfing the Middle East. Well... while I'm reading his biography, that is.

And so, don't mistake this little blog entry as some comment on Newt Gingrich-style "open relationships," or how...

This wasn't your standard gathering of the nerds.

The LA AppShow was held last Wednesday at the Edmunds building in the Water Garden in Santa Monica, California. When I got there, I jammed into the glitzy underground parking garage and made small talk with a sexy brunette on the...

The resurrection of Newt Gingrich?

Have you noticed? The Tea Baggers really have a thing for this guy. Newt's simple, blast 'em all strategy, fits brilliantly into their tough guy ego. They respect that. And they want a candidate who will body-slam the Washington establishment and stick it to the...

May the pagan gods bless the New York Times -- because when I read "How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body" this week, I enjoyed one of those fine belly laughs that only comes once in a great while.

The article, by William J. Broad, was laced with...

That Saturday night started alone, with the music up and the windows down, jamming my white Ford Bronco up the LA freeway to some club in Hollywood. The traffic was light and when I got there a small Korean man kept wailing about the angle of my vicious park job....