The president-elect truly wielded the digital might of Twitter into office. There are some basics about our digital communications whi...

How fascinating to watch the recent Nobel Prize ceremony awarding Bob Dylan. Dylan's designation as recipient of the Nobel for Literatur...

The words "gun control" are all around us this holiday season, but the real debate here is about reducing massacres of innocen...

Pamela Geller I'm somewhat happy to report there appears to be a theory to explain why deeply uninformed folks suffer from "ill...

image via The grim reality on the streets and in the neighborhoods of Baltimore currently stem from not simply one incident about poli...

The clearest and most sane response to the loopy, hypocritical and dangerous trends in politics and media for this century has come from J...

In this week's New Yorker, a fascinating and slightly disgusting story of one man who encountered a nasty little thing called Salmone...

via cartoonist Rob Tornoe How odd is it that we live in a time when terror threats against a low-brow fart-joke movie ("The Intervi...

Ferguson, Missouri images via The Big Picture

Boston's Big Picture website always boasts stunning photography, and their year end roundup of news photos from around the world is...

Incumbent 1st District Congressman Phil Roe is being challenged for re-election by another Republican, Dan Hartley, who blasted Rep. Roe dur...

  Check out this harrowing account from astronaut Luca Parmitano about an unusual and nearly deadly accident - water filling up his space h...

Someone hacked into local Emergency Broadcast Systems in Montana and Michigan to warn viewers that dead bodies were coming back to life as Z...

Moving at Internet speed yesterday, the Sports website Deadspin revealed Notre Dame's football hero Manti Te'o did not actually have...

The Misunderstood? ( via ) In the face of deadly events and violence aimed at children, it seems the most sane response is the express...

Charlotte Bacon, 6 Daniel Barden, 7 Olivia Engel, 6 Josephine Gay, 7 Ana Marquez-Greene, 6 Dylan Hockley, 6 Madeleine Hsu,...

It was quite flattering to be called out by Mr. Silence for my absence over  the past month - it is good to be missed. So thank you. ...

There are several powerful lessons to be learned from the recent retraction of a story reported on the radio program This American Life a...

I'm very happy to see that a few items I wrote about this week are getting more attention and scrutiny from the press and the public. ...

After a brief absence, former KnoxNews columnist/blogger/media overlord Michael Silence is back online, highlighting all types of news, inf...