“It takes a lot of remembering just to be able to remember.” -Joshua Foer, Moonwalking with Einstein When I first picked up Moonwalking with Eintstein I hardly thought it would be pertinent to my focus of Gonzo journalism, but Joshua Foer impresses with his quest to climb the ranks of “mental athletes” to eventual US [...]

The race to nominate the GOP presidential candidate is getting interesting. Days before the South Carolina primary, Mitt Romney appeared on the brink of sealing an easy victory. With Iowa and New Hampshire under his belt, he edged closer to the nomination—and to racking up achievements few non-incumbent candidates can claim. Then Iowa slammed Romney’s [...]

I wish I would have posted my predictions in Iowa and New Hampshire, because I picked 8 of the top ten spots correctly in the early voting states…but those were easy.  Now we head South, and it always gets interesting down South.  I really felt Newt would run really well in the South, and especially [...]

“To the extent that experience is the sum of our memories and wisdom the sum of experience, having a better memory would mean knowing not only more about the world, but also more about myself.” -Joshua Foer, Moonwalking with Einstein Having lived a life full of tumultuous events and “near-life experiences,” as I like to [...]

In a recent speech to a group of Vatican diplomats, Pope Benedict XVI called gay marriage a threat “to the future of humanity.” His condemnation comes as another salvo in the war for the basic rights certain men and women in the Western World demand—and deserve. But it also continues to propagate the fallacy that [...]

John Boehner, current Speaker of the House, has an image problem. It is not a small problem; it is colossal. If his problem were an event from history, it’d be the fall of the Western Roman Empire; it’d be the Dark Ages; it’d be the First World War. That’s how colossal his problem is. John Boehner’s problem [...]