Every so often you’ll run into a person with his nose shoved so far up someone’s ass he can sneeze into the person’s ear. When you ask this guy, “What’s with all the cheerleading?”, his response is typically something like “Well, so-and-so gave me my first big break” or “He believed in me” or “I owe it to him because [insert asinine reason here].”...

Last week I read an article by Daniel Lyons about how some websites we all enjoy (Twitter, Facebook) ought not be free anymore.  Interesting idea, but his example of a site that was making money because of its subscription service, Paltalk, was one that I had never even heard of.  It’d be like saying, “Hey, this is Omar, the most popular team roper in all of Saudi Arabia” and the rest of...