I don’t mean to constantly harp on the police.  It isn’t the reason that I started here at the Complex.  In fact, my main agenda at the outset of this thing was to establish for myself a...

I lost my cat to a type of throat cancer last year.  Tough thing.  It started with rapid-fire cat sneezes, which my wife and I took to be a sinus infection of some type.  We gave it...

I’m trying to figure out whether it is a sad statement about me, my reading habits, or the times in which I was raised, that the mention of Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer series only harkens me back...

It’s hard to know how close a friend Brian Keith Jones was to Nelly last week.  Or if he was a friend at all.  What it is possible to glean from reports however, is that he’s a...

It’s kind of a weird thing to watch Shepard Smith when he gets sincere.  First of all, I’ve always felt that Shepard looked vaguely like Laura Palmer’s dad from Twin Peaks, so stunned contrition represents a jarring...

The Amish are an insular bunch, so when news crosses over from America’s Amish/Mennonite communties, you can be assured that it is generally going to be of a criminal bent. There are about 250,000 Americans living in...

If you find yourself with fifteen minutes to kill this evening, you can go to YouTube and pull up the video that is currently causing murder and mayhem and destruction in the Middle East this evening.  No,...

I’m guessing that at some point during the evolution of Harmony Korine’s forthcoming film Spring Breakers, it occurred to somebody that recruiting a teen sensation of the ilk of, say, Selena Gomez might bring a little hype...

Before we get too far into this, I want everybody to remember that there was a time when the members of Mötley Crüe were presumed to be dangerous servants of the Devil. I should also say that...