“Team David or Team Zane?” was a popular question on Westerfansites and forums (and even an Amazon Poll) during the span of the Uglies series’s initial release. Readers enthusiastically debated whether Tally should be romantically linked with David, the self-sufficient, wild-born young man who first leads her into the Smoke, … read more»

You wanna talk disasters? Easy, where Stephanie Plum is concerned. A more disaster-prone woman never walked the earth. Okay, granted, she is a bounty hunter, and blown-up cars are part of the gig (though hers do seem to explode a good deal more than those of other law-enforcement types...like, in … read more»

For Peter Parker, and for each of us who reads, watches, or plays his story, Spider-Man saves the world.

The means by which Spider-Man achieves this feat is by getting hopelessly tangled in his own contradictory duties. Most ethicists distinguish at least two kinds of duties: duties to oneself and … read more»

“These fumes aren’t as fun as beer. Sure, I’m all dizzy and nauseous, but where’s the inflated sense of self-esteem?”

—B. GUMBLE

“I pity the fool who derives his self-esteem from mocking other people’s clothes.”

—MR. T (guest spot)

Many facets of psychology are explored and lampooned … read more»