Virgin Galactic released SpaceShipTwo over the Mojave desert on Sunday. The first manned craft marked what Virgin’s founder Richard Branson described as “One of the most exciting days in the history of Virgin.” Are awesome, expensive vacations really what Branson’s inspired mind should be focusing on?

When it was reported a few days ago that Disney has opened an English-language school in Shanghai, China, using Disney characters and songs as mnemonics, it got me thinking about the future of education, generally. With the news of the Disney school, it seems that civilization has taken the first step toward manifesting the world of Mike Judge’s film “Idiocracy.”

Or, you know, she isn’t, but I doubt that even recent photographic proof of this fact, as well as a shot of her vagina in her new, incomparably great video for “Telephone,” will squelch the incessant chatter about Lady Gaga’s fictional dick-tional.  I think it’s kind of annoying that she constantly takes pains to poke fun at the rumors, like when she posed with a strap-on in her pants for Q Magazine,  but that feeling doesn’t even come close to how irritating it must be for her as their subject.  Now that we’ve been given the chance to thoroughly inspect Gaga’s anatomy, let’s move the rabid examination from what’s inside her panties to the video on the whole – all nine and a half minutes of it.