Since it’s Halloween and all, I thought I’d take a moment to publicly endorse my favorite candy of all-time: Nerds. When I was little, I dreamed of having the special Nerds cereal bowl. Unfortunately, my parents were cheapskates and wanted to keep me healthy, so I had to live with Grape...

This man goes by the name “Mystery“. Mystery is the figurehead of a new underground movement called the “Seduction Community“. Mystery has a reality show on VH1 called “The Pickup Artist.” Mystery teaches socially awkward men how to get laid. Mystery is a pathetic,...

When the boys in Sloan asked their manager “Chip” Sutherland if they should rerecord their whole album Twice Removed for the marketing purposes of Geffen Records back in 1993, Chip told the boys to tell Geffen to ‘go and f**k themselves.” Chip passionately pleaded with Sloan to...

According to a report from the Environmental Justice Foundation, titled “The Deadly Chemicals in Cotton,” and written in collaboration with the Pesticide Action Network UK: Approximately 1 kilo of pesticide is applied to every hectare of cotton. 99% of the world’s cotton farmers are located in...

(Editor’s Note: To give you an idea of what we’ll be including on Burnside 2.0, we’ll be posting a new series of columns and features which will eventually be available on our new site. One weekly feature will be “Jesus Loves…”, a photographic reminder that our Savior...

I was about fourteen when I noticed putrid smells coming from certain rooms in The Church: racism, hypocrisy, profiteering evangelists, prosperity gospels, and other such piles of bullshit that I had to step over on my journey of faith. When I brought these subjects up to my Sunday School teachers and...

What do ridiculously passionate music fans do with their spare time? Argue about lists of things. What’s the greatest music video of all time? [Radiohead's "Just"] What country makes the best pop music? [Clearly, Sweden] Still, the granddaddy of all popular music arguments is “What’s...

I don’t remember where I saw the phrase, “We put the Fun in Fundamentalism”…maybe at a snarky card shop or one of those websites where bitter ex-Christians print venom on T-shirts. In any case, “we put the fun in fundamentalism” isn’t laughing with fundamentalists...

When you work on a site like Burnside, there are very few things more exciting than watching one of your fellow writers get published. We’ve been fortunate enough to witness a few this year, like Susan Isaacs, and we’ve been blessed with a number of already-published contributors. So this...

Over the last two years I spent a goodly amount of time learning to go without, to maximize my resources and tread lighter. Initially, I gave up buying plastic for a month because Lynell sent me an article about a woman who did a similar experiment. The idea was interesting given my recent pursuit of...