Something strange happened to me around when I started college: I stopped reading books. Not "I stopped reading." Not "I stopped reading stories." Not "I stopped reading for long periods of time without interruption." I just, specifically, stopped reading books.

I would estimate that I spend at least an...

Sheeple of New York City, for how long will you sit back in fear as King Bloomberg robs you of your God-given rights? And citizens of Elsewhere, USA, it has long been said that as goes Manhattan, so goes the nation. Will you stand idly by as your brethren

I've been told I have a very expressive face. I don't know about that, but I do know that I replaced the adolescent eye-roll with the Stephen Colbert eyebrow raise™ years ago. So I can only imagine what my face was doing when I walked into my friend's kitchen and...

Hundreds of thousands of mourners gathered on the National Mall on Sunday evening to mourn the tragic death of Santa Claus, who was shot dead on Friday night as he entered a Pennsylvania home through the chimney to deliver presents to Nathan, 4, and Emily, 6, who had both been...

A photograph of the Penn State Chi Omega sorority chapter's "Mexican-themed" party, originally found on the student-run blog Onward State, is circulating after being picked up by other websites, including Jezebel and Gawker, sparking a discussion about racial insensitivity and what's funny.

I'll get...

Bill O'Reilly doesn't get "Gangnam Style." It's just people "doing the pony." Eight hundred million views on YouTube? What justifies that?

The "unintelligible words" -- or as some people call it, Korean -- emanating from a "little fat guy... jumping up and down" are so strange to him, in...

Can the technique of conducting a review in entirely rhetorical questions, as Pete Wells of the New York Times did to verbally flay Guy Fieri, be employed in praise rather than verbal evisceration? No.

Will there still be lots of rhetorical questions in this review? Here's one now!

I should start by saying that I identify myself as being culturally Jewish and spiritually agnostic. That is to say, I don't really believe in God -- though I won't really speak in absolutes on that issue -- but I identify with the cultural aspects of the Jewish religion and...

Jacob and Anna Mueller, occupants of a house in a residential area of the town surrounding Penn State, apologized today for a Halloween display that their neighbors deemed "offensive, grotesque, and generally too scary for our kids to see when they walk home."

The Muellers took down the offensive decorations...

An editorial headline on The Daily Caller Friday reads:

DNC voting fiasco a reminder of need for voter ID laws

Now, I know what you're thinking: But, Conservative Activist Yates Walker, might a connection between a voice vote on a largely symbolic issue of reinstating language...

Last Monday, at 11:30 am on a beautiful, brisk fall day, I met nine other Penn State undergraduates and two professors under the Gateway to the Sciences in the center of our University Park campus, in conservative business dress and with nothing but ID and a notepad on me.

For myself, as a media consumer and as a Penn State student, these past months have been interesting times. Unfortunately, this has served to prove that a lot of people, from Stephen Colbert to my economics professor last semester, were dead on when they said that the Chinese say "May...

AUSTIN, PA -- UT Austin student Paul Benefiel, Patient Zero of the great PAC outbreak of 2012, and Remy Maisel of Penn State have agreed to overlook the long-running volleyball rivalry between Penn State and UT Austin that neither was aware of in order to partner up and claim second...

Stephen Colbert just can't seem to stop causing trouble. First, he stood not 20 feet from President Bush at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Dinner and tore down the unpopular president with a mock-laudatory speech that went viral overnight. Then, he ceased merely reporting on the ripples in the pond...

Stephen Colbert has called us losers. He got us (and 999 other fan groups based at universities) to buy his Super Fun Pack, filled it with what seemed like a series of gag items, and then asked us all to solve an extremely complex treasure hunt. If we solved it,...

The Flop House podcast, hosted by Dan McCoy (writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart) and his friends Elliott Kalan (writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart) and Stuart Wellington, is a comedy podcast that uses bad movies as vehicles for brilliantly...

Our first meeting, scheduled with the aid of a poll on the Facebook page, was surprisingly well-attended for a Thursday night meeting that unfortunately coincided with a Dayglow event and the beginning of the final exam study frenzy. About 20 people came up to the little corner of the student...

It was a rather non-traditional second night Passover Seder as my uncle and legal advisor Raymond Ragues (of Ragues PLLC) and I nudged Elijah's Cup out of the way and spread out FEC Form 1 on the dining room table.

"You mean this is really, really it?" I...

If we learned anything from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear in 2010, it's that when America's favorite anchors ask their audience to jump, the audience immediately, unquestioningly and happily launches itself into the air as one, and worries about exactly what the purpose of...

I was fifteen and seated in my dentist's examination chair the first time I realized I might face disapproval if I made known the fact that I take oral contraceptives.

"What medicines do you take?" asked the pretty Russian hygienist, busily making notes in my chart. Let's call her Martina....