Riled Up

As if there wasn’t enough reason to envy Justin Timberlake. On top of his ability to convince nail-bitingly stunning women to touch his stubble, he is now showing an ability to greenwash like an Exxon veep on a Mescaline bender … and apparently not feel the slightest bit guilty about it.

He’s pimping his new golf [...]

The Simpsons are getting better lately for three reasons: better writing, a more lovable Homer, and their insights on the environment … and how we all need to calibrate, temper and moderate our existential despair over the prospect that we’re all super-duper screwed.

Like where Lisa gets so worked up about the grim future of the [...]

By Reilly Capps

Two maps here, the happy index and the happy planet index, and one is more straightforward than the other.

The simple one is the happy index, which says that people who live in richer countries are generally happier with their lives than people who live in poorer countries, thus rebutting dreamy Luddites who insist [...]