"Do we have cooties?" a friend asked me a few days ago. "Would it kill them to talk to us?"

This week alone, two friends have told me that men from here are. The. Worst.

Another friend just quit Plenty of Fish, the online dating site. After gaining a few...

Two videos by precocious, fame-seeking kids are making the rounds this week. They're drawing millions of clicks and equally big prognostications about the future. One is set to be the next young anthem of the year and heralds the coming of a future celebrity overlord; the...

For those who're attached or who're somehow virgins in Internet-facilitated or enhanced sex, it's worth pointing out that online dating is now the new norm, and frequently as tame as a house cat. But there's still a wild beast roaming out there and it's name is Craigslist.

The Craigslist...

America has a new sweetheart. But she challenges the ideas about what a good girl is.

Every Olympics, a new sweetheart is born. And there's no question Lindsey Vonn's sweet star is shining brighter than any others in Vonncouver. She joins reigning Hollywood sweethearts (like Jennifer Anniston) and...

One of the Olympic stats most talked about around Vancouver this weekend wasn't medals or scores, per se, but condoms. One hundred thousand condoms are being given out in the Athletes' Village, which adds up to 14.6 condoms for each of the 6,850 athletes and officials expected to...

In between public tapings attended by thousands, Steven Colbert made an almost secret visit to Vancouver's Olympic Pride House on Thursday night. In front of about two dozen people gathered to watch hockey on TV, he bantered with Jennifer Breakspear, the director of the...

The Olympics are coming out of the closet. These Games will have the first ever Pride House. Two of them, actually: one opened yesterday in Whistler in a cocktail lounge, and the other will open in the heart of Vancouver's West End on Thursday.

People are saying, in short,...

Most anti-drug education is about as effective as encouraging teens to get up at dawn on the weekends. Maybe, just maybe, because the delivery style (earnest videos, posters with smiling teens, italic fonts and exclamation marks!) tends to both misunderstand and misrepresent teen culture.

In most cases, it's as...

Halloween is getting scarier. It's starting to rival Christmas in toxicity without so much as a "boo." It's the costumes, mostly. Somehow, along with going less green, they've also become more boring.

Look, I don't want environmentalism to spoil the party -- I'm hoping it can save it, in fact....

The latest consumer item to be downsized this recession is breasts. It's not just that fewer women are shelling out ten grand for a pair of silicone cups, but that some women are going under the knife to have large implants turned into smaller ones.

The Daily Beast...

On Monday, when America's two most famous parents filed for divorce, it wasn't really a surprise. They're parents. Jon + Kate + 8 = divorce.

"As always, my first priority remains our children," said Kate on Monday night. She's the mother on John and Kate Plus 8, a...

Dave Letterman sat on a wall. Dave Letterman had a great fall. But will all the media's horses and the court of public opinion put him back together again today?

The drama, of course, has been playing out for a week, ever since Letterman quipped last Monday that while in...

"Having a kid is so gay," a man told me recently. How's that for irony? Especially given that the guy is pushing 40.

It's the kind of juvenile language that only makes sense when you understand the near-hysteria about family life that exists in a new tribe of middle aged,...

I turned 35 a few months ago, and since then the floodgates have opened on one sunny piece of unsolicited advice: "If you're going to have kids, you'd better hurry up," as if I didn't realize I was nearing my best-by date for both motherhood and youth.

You'd have...

Teen births are up for the second year in a row. But when Bill Maher, on his show Real Time, asked his guest panel why that might be the case, or what could be done about it, the trio became suddenly mute. Only one panel member, Carrie Washington,...

I'm with anyone who thinks it's an oversized offense to slight someone based on their girth.

I'm also against the bloated double standard. There are few or no remarks made about a man's shirt, jacket or pants size when he performs a job (save when his job is directly...

This is the third week of Armgate, or Sleevegate. It could also be called Bicep Bruhaha. To some, Michelle Obama is going out on a limb, is armed and dangerous, and out to start her own arms race. Her pipes have even...

Gwyneth Paltrow could be the future of journalism.

Not as the subject of articles or magazines, but the writer and publisher of them. Her weekly e-newsletter and blog, Goop, which offers earnest advice on how to improve our tasteless, unstylish, ignorant lives, has 150,000 subscribers...

Is it me, or is there more love in the air than usual? Rose-colored glasses are everywhere, and not just from a V-day hangover or annual spring fever. The reality malaise is in full bloom, both on TV's small screen and life's big screen. Down with reality! We want escape!...

The Obama election has captured the world's imagination like no previous one. So Canadians, like people in most countries, will be tuning in to the big ceremony and its reverberating celebrations. Inaugural stories currently dominate every media format from TV and radio, to blogs, tabloids and serious dailies, and everywhere...