No doubt you’ve heard the tragic news of the events that unfolded at Fort Hood yesterday, a place so remote and different from our daily lives that we struggled to picture what the largest military base in the U.S. might actually look and feel like. As we always do, we turned to cinema for some [...]

The Statue of Liberty, a French gift to the U.S.A. on the occasion of the Declaration of Independence’s centennial, was dedicated on October 28 1886, which makes Lady Liberty exactly 123 years old today. As a celebration of all that that huge hunk of metal has come to symbolize over the years, we’re looking at [...]

We know you’ve been waiting for it all year, and now it’s finally here: National Punctuation Day! Obviously, everyone )ourselves included( misuses punctuation all the time, so it’s important to have days like today to raise awareness of proper punctuation rules. In fact, we’re taking today’s lessons so seriously that we’re contemplating getting a punctuation [...]

Today is September 11 – in case you’d forgotten, in which event you must not be a Patriot (today is also Patriot Day) – the 8th anniversary of a certain event that changed the course of modern history. Of course, no horrifying act of death and destruction is beyond the purview of advertisers constantly looking [...]

President Obama is planning to make a speech especially to public school students around the nation on Tuesday and, per the Times, some Republican parents don’t want their kids brainwashed by the socialist propaganda of their elected leader. All parents are notoriously evil and unjust, as we all well know, so this should come as [...]

The 42nd President of the United States of America celebrates his 63rd birthday today, perhaps you’ve heard of him? William Jefferson Clinton managed to remain one of the most popular Presidents during his time in office despite certain unmentionable scandals, and has only become more beloved since. After leaving office he single-handedly gentrified Harlem, and [...]

As American military engagements in the MIddle East plod along with little or no progress, the New York Times tried to drum up some hopefulness with their epic feature on women in the military this weekend. In movies, of course, female soldiers are nothing new. In fact, some of our best cinematic soldiers have been [...]

Over the weekend a massive 11-hour riot broke out at a jail in Chino, just outside Los Angeles. Between Saturday night and Sunday morning some 250 prisoners were injured, with over fifty ending up hospitalized. Though nobody was killed, and no prison employees were injured, the violence between black and Latino gangs did some pretty [...]

Today is National Lasagna Day, and in order to expand our readership’s appreciation of that sacred Italian dish, we’ve gone looking for some odd and unusual recipes. Did you know that lasagna is named for the Greek word “lasanon,” meaning “trivet or stand for a pot,” and that the word originally designated the dish lasagna [...]

An interesting, if borderline sci-fi story from The New York Times details how the American Army is testing soldiers for their ability to detect danger and risk with their minds. While on patrol in Iraqi and Afghan villages, some seem better able to anticipate road-side bombs and the like than others, making them a valuable [...]