Kulture

Why use Third World children as prostitutes when you can just sell their organs? Leonardo Calcagno gives you one more reason to hate the new global economy.

A loving review of Matthew Callan's days at Action Park, a death-happy amusement park in Jersey that defied both logic and the survival instinct.

Ten years ago, the City of Destiny was a thriving destination for ambitious young slackers. Moving into 2001, expat Prague is bourgeois, tired and slightly grey. Sy Antonelli watched it happen.

During most of the last decade, baseball has survived — and even thrived — against the odds in Serbia. Alex Zaitchik reports on that interesting intersection of sports and politics.

Like Che in the jungles of Bolivia, Rage has met its end. Dan Sherman respectfully takes a retrospective spit on the warm grave.

One reason why creationism is still popular is because science has failed to plug the holes in its own version of events. Like much of science, the theory of evolution has massive detail in some parts, and huge question marks in others.

It's Olympics time again. Cyanide, anyone?

Alone among advanced industrial nations still practicing state sanctioned murder, the USA is heading for a long overdue identity crisis. Mike Manville holds up the mirror.

If you're an investor, you probably aren't reading this. You're watching MSNBC. You also probably have tunnel vision. I know. I used to be one.

Rock and Roll all night, party every day. The hang over lasts decades, smells like grease paint and costs $19 to get into.

Euro-Jim Crow and racial violence are alive and well on the Old Continent. Gwendolyn Albert looks at the current plight of Gypsies in Central Europe and wonders what century we are in.

Animal rights activist Paul Kail on the language of species domination, or Why we say "pork" and not "dead pig."

Animals can't write screeenplays, but then neither can most humans. Animal rights activist and neuroscientist Pail Kail explains why such comparisons aren't as crazy as they sound.

The global sex trade is a multi-billion dollar a year industry involving tens of thousands of poor women. Gwendolyn Albert looks at who is being sold, who is making the money, and why it isn't being stopped.

Zoltan Bez Kalhoty had a problem with the 20th century. Now he has a problem with anyone who doesn't know things have changed.

Milkmoney Jones looks at some recent news stories and decides he wants his mommy.

"THIS IS YOUR DAY!" with Benny Hinn is an impressively slick televangelist operation. Between subtle psychological manipulation and celebrity appearances, it has a percentage of Middle America in the palm of its gilded hand.

Who won the Post Office's "Celebrate the Century" ballot? Are these voters the real arbiters of history? Or, did Ayn Rand get it right when she wrote a 1970 piece called "Apollo and Dionysus." She declared the two forces coined by Nietzsche to represent "the fundamental conflict of the age", are Cape Kennedy and Woodstock — embodying both principles in "pure, extreme, isolated form."