As a scrawny white guy who listens to a lot of sixties folk music, I am hardly the target audience of any hip hop group. Stereotypes aside, I do enjoy listening to rap and hip hop artists and fully recognize their artistic merit and importance in the music world. However, as mainstream hip-hop becomes...

I am all for simplicity. I think there are few artists you can handle dense complexity, few who can grab chaos by the horns and drive it into town with the listener holding on all the way in. I think Bon Iver (real name: Justin Vernon) is not of the chosen few, and so delivered For Emma, Forever Ago...

“…Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodies?” -Juvenal, Satire VI The success or failure of implementing bureaucracy is wholly reliant upon two things: A definitive, just power source, and clear communication amongst divisions. Bureaucracy is, in theory, the most efficient way to divide power...

You decide it’s in your best interest to focus all your attention on one sport, but which one? In the end you choose golf, even though you have never played. Within months you are a scratch player, and have earned your PGA Tour playing card. But while playing in your first Masters you are struck in...

“Well, I guess so,” you say. “I’ll meet you guys at 8, but you have to be gone by 10.” “Sure, no problem” Jason says. — After an hour of algebra with Julie Anne, the two of you leave the coffee shop and walk towards your house. When your house comes into sight, you notice the lights...