Culture and Society

Michael Jackson couldn’t stand the heat and so he went some place hotter: Bahrain. After he was found not guilty of child abuse and conspiracy charges in June, Jackson left his Neverland home in Santa Barbara County and went on a little jaunt to the Middle East with the three …

Blogcritics.org has partnered with Shaun OMac Daily’s popular weekly web radio show SUBJECT2DISCUSSION, which airs Tuesday nights at 7 pm PT, 10 pm ET on the LV Rocks site, for a weekly pop culture report on the show from 8-8:30 PT. Shaun was kind enough to announce to the world, …

Last week I heard prognosticators opine that the opening blast of the holiday shopping season has shifted from the traditional brick-and-mortar Black Friday to Cyber Monday for online retailers, because so many online shoppers, who tend to be younger, use their work computers to make their cyber-purchases, and people don’t …

Woman want access to decisionmaking in public and private spheres, safety, opportunity, respect .... and they've had to keep fighting for them.

The West built its economies without environmental restrictions. India, China and other nations aren't so lucky.

Lucky White Girl kept her laptop in the oven for safekeeping, but ...

A wonderfully written exposition on and exploration of the primal experience of hunger.

No one had ever offered to fill an iPod up with legal music, at a realistic price. Now someone has.

Wal-Mart selling copies of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion; anti-Jewish propaganda has been on the rise.

For the first time in years, my parent’s house in Northeast Ohio will not be the fulcrum of extended Olsen family Thanksgiving activity because we are all gathering at an undisclosed arid locale in December for a Christmas hoohaw in just a few weeks and the Virginia and California branches …