Yet another study demonstrates that there is no link between vaccines and autism. Study to be ignored by media and denounced by celebrity moms on Oprah.
Police issue warning about internet meme “Pedobear” apparently mistaking it for a genuine pedophile mascot, thereby rendering any and all attempts to make this situation sound funnier than it already is moot.
Homeland Security Secretary admits that the U.S. will always be at risk to terrorist threats. “We also have information that indicates that the sky is, in fact, blue,” continued Napolitano.
Pope plans to violate his …

WARNING: There will be plenty of spoilers in this frank and open discussion of the fourth season premiere of Mad Men, “Public Relations.” So hold onto your hams, because here we go.
BENJAMIN: I’ll just start off by saying that it’s going to be tough to be objective about the entire episode when it ended on such a ridiculously high and thrilling note. Seeing Don grasp the spotlight with both hands with the zeal we’ve previously only seen him have for finding translations for “Hilton” was a practically fist-pumping moment. Nashville Teens’ booming “Tobacco Road” didn’t …

I now watch more TV shows than I have at any other point in my life. I have some idea why this happened—Hulu and Netflix Watch Instantly put a lot of TV shows on my schedule, instead of vice versa. As someone who detested television programming before HBO tore the lid off the potential of serial storytelling, this is a pretty drastic switch in habits.

Several of the Bureau Chiefs are now heavily into the new HBO series Treme, as most of us were big fans of creator David Simon’s earlier HBO project, The Wire.  Doctor K, Ken Lowery, Benjamin Birdie, Eugene Ahn and Matt Wilson sat down around the virtual table and have a discussion of their impressions of the series so far, especially as they weigh it against their experience with the earlier show.

Debuting in 1963, Doctor Who was an afternoon serial originally launched by the BBC as an educational program for children. By the fifth episode, it had pretty much abandoned that pretense and settled into a science-fiction show centered on an eccentric alien scientist who travels through time and space in an old blue box that is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.
Canceled in 1989 due to a combination of low ratings and new network management that considered it (essentially rightfully) as a hokey embarrassment, an abortive …