Frederick Kaufman

Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag (River Callaway/Billboard/Getty) HollywoodLos AngelesPoliticsProgressivesSpencer Pratt Spencer Pratt first appeared on reality television in 2005, when the precocious 20-year-old executive producer stepped out from behind the cameras of The Princes of Malibu to become a permanent house guest at the Malibu mansion owned by the gray-haired music producer David Foster (and stepfather of the eponymous “princes”) — thereby enraging the show’s old-guard authority figure.

New York Jews are 'licking the frog'. (J.G. Fox) There are more than a few places in the Old Testament where it appears that the ancient patriarchs and prophets were tripping their brains out: Moses and the bush that burned but never was consumed; Ezekiel contemplating the quadruple-headed holy chariot of Yahweh; Balaam talking to a donkey.

‘The myth of the Bermuda Triangle is now 80 years old.’ Getty Images AmericaBermuda TriangleConspiracy theory Draw a line on a map from Miami to Bermuda, another from Bermuda to San Juan, a third back to Miami. That’s the Bermuda Triangle, where planes fly into oblivion, skiffs sink without a trace, and abandoned ghost ships loll for eternity in the glassy aquamarine.