“Things are quiet and peaceful in small-town Jericho, Kansas, but when a baffling explosion occurs in the distance, Jericho’s residents are plunged into social, psychological and physical chaos. No one knows what to think, and fear of the unknown takes over the town, especially because its isolation cuts it off from outside help. When nearly everything they know seems gone, will the residents of JERICHO band together to face their [...]

N.B.: I was in Kenya from 2002 to 2004. Anything that smells like pop culture from those two years is completely unknown to me. If this is old news to you, my apologies. Tonight I was watching Miami Ink, the TV show about tattooists tattooing tattooed people. It’s a repeat, but still, I hadn’t seen it before. Graduate students don’t watch TV, remember? While I was feeling jealousy about all [...]

For the last few years, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been overstepping their authority and deciding–for 300 million Americans–what is decent and what is indecent to view on network TV. Never mind that we’re already so exposed to swear words, sexually provocative scenes, and violence on the other 500 channels we get, and let’s not even count the Internet. Finally, network TV is fighting back. ABC, NBC, CBS, and [...]