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Adam Weinstein · 04/10/14 01:08PM

Vaccinate your kids. Vaccinate your kids. Vaccinate your kids. Seriously, for the love of all that was touched by Jove and is holy in this world, vaccinate your kids.

Where Is the Humanities' Neil DeGrasse Tyson?

Adam Weinstein · 03/31/14 01:45PM

Cosmos is a hit, again. Neil DeGrasse Tyson is a pop science star. Thanks to him, kids dream about expanding human knowledge of the phenomenal universe. Now: Where's a liberal arts rockstar to make people care about human culture that much?

College Hacker Gets Jail For Changing His Grades to Straight As

Adam Weinstein · 03/03/14 12:20PM

Roy Sun, 25, was a $70,000-a-year electrical engineer straight out of college. And why not? He'd gone to one of the best engineering schools in the country. He even studied, um, computer security in his free time. Which he had a lot of, since he never went to class.

Adam Weinstein · 02/04/14 01:07PM

At least one Democratic senator is willing to deport Justin Bieber. We can make this happen, America.

Adam Weinstein · 01/24/14 09:08AM

Bill Gates wants to offer the world a better, thinner condom. You know, for the ladies: "We're a big funder of innovation in that area, as well."

Congress Just Quietly Took a Big Step Toward Closing Guantanamo

Adam Weinstein · 12/19/13 10:20AM

In a surprise bipartisan move Thursday, the Republican-led House passed a plan that could make it easier to transfer most of the remaining 160 U.S. terror detainees from their prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to other locations overseas.

Let's All Pretend to Be CIA Officers Now

Adam Weinstein · 12/17/13 09:51AM

Do you have a job that overworks you? Wish you had more time at home with the kids, or just alone with your thoughts? You should join our elite secret outfit of people who pretend to work for the Central Intelligence Agency to get out of doing their day jobs.

Totally Sexless Snuggling-For-Money Business Shuts Down After Uproar

Adam Weinstein · 12/09/13 03:13PM

The Snuggle House was supposed to be a nice place where nice people could drop in for "therapeutic cuddling" at $60 an hour "in a non-sexual way." But it all went sideways, because clearly, you didn't deserve The Snuggle House, America.

Adam Weinstein · 12/06/13 02:21PM

Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry really wanted us all to wear Spandex in the future. Smelly, smelly Spandex.

Here Are 11 Top "Screw Capitalism" Lines in Pope Francis' New Message

Adam Weinstein · 11/26/13 01:15PM

We all love liberal Pope Francis! But beneath that love-everyone-even-the-godless-and-gay exterior, is he el papa del comunismo? Judging from his just-released 84-page exposition on the evils of consumerism and modern economics, he may start wearing a lot more red: