Setting: The break room of a depressing office building. Charles, a high functioning alcoholic, sits alone nursing a cup of coffee and fighting a massive hangover. He scrolls through his phone and continually loosens his tie. Enter Daniel, a low functioning alcoholic who has bits of egg on his face. He seems very upset....

Look, I’m bored, it’s a slow news week,  and I don’t feel like writing about the Sony hack or about how the cancellation of The Interview is a blow to free speech and the terrorists have won and yada yada yada.  There are far smarter people than me to tackle that issue and write...

This past week’s episode of Doctor Who was a series high-point, an inventive, frightening, complex and emotionally resonant tale that injected some much needed life into the long running series and left Doctor Who fans split right down the middle. Some (me among them) praised every element of it while others felt it was...