Nothing is more powerful than an idea. Except an idea that gets RT’d by Kim Kardashian. Regardless of how you feel about the message, Kony 2012 illuminates how our attention span-challenged generation will respond to activism that is sexy and social.

Jesus’ birthday has always been basketball’s Thanksgiving, but this Sunday is primed to be one of the most compelling NBA TV spectacles in recent history. The lockout-shortened 66-game regular season kicks off, and Andrew Bank has you covered.

The NBA’s nuclear winter is upon us — here’s what doesn’t lie ahead…

Many of the same analysts pulling for ex-cons like Vick and Plaxico genuinely want to see Tebow fail. Must one overcome sin to win the public’s affection? If so, Tebow’s proven character will undoubtedly prevent him from reaching Football Heaven.

Is this Hell? No…it’s Iowa. In the state where Ray Kinsella religiously followed Shoeless Joe Jackson’s every command to build a baseball field, Rep. Michele Bachmann this weekend jumped ahead of the GOP 2012 field. Can someone please ease *our* pain?

With so much uncertainty, many NBA players are looking to join teams overseas. Nets star Deron Williams has led the charge by agreeing to terms with Turkey’s Besiktas. Kobe Bryant may follow. Will this help end the lockout?

Bank on Twitter: “Throughout my battle with a severe Tweeting disorder, I’ve surrendered substance to keep up with others. Now, I Tweet because I’m unhappy and am unhappy because I Tweet.”

Would you vouch for Charlie Sheen? Andrew Bank’s new start-up, VouchBoard, went down to SXSW to ask that very question. And how come The Social Network makes starting a world-changing company seem so easy? Fincher’s got some explaining to do.

Charlie Sheen’s recent ‘briefcase full of cocaine‘ incident adds to his future first-ballot Celebrity Trainwreck Hall of Fame resume. Still, Andrew Bank writes, the Two and a Half Men star has nothing on America’s favorite f*ckup: fictional writer Hank Moody.

Read Andrew Bank’s early commencement speech for the soon-to-be-graduates of the Class of 2011: A corrupt, polluted, and brutally hilarious world will soon be in your hands. It’s up to our youngest and brightest minds to make it suck less.

While many will remember this year for Julian Assange, Antoine Dodson, LeBron James, and Mark Zuckerberg, it was Jeff Bridges who really tied 2010 together. Why we should all make New Year’s resolutions to follow in his sandal steps.

While the NY Knicks are relevant again, filmmaker/cheerleader Spike Lee is trying too hard to be as well. It’s wrong to question Spike’s fanhood, but he has to do the right thing and stop taking credit for the Orange & Blue’s most spirited play in nearly a decade.

This Thanksgiving, as we all kick back and watch football while wearing our Bill Cosby sweaters and eating turducken, Andrew Bank urges you to soak in the good company nearby, appreciating the people out there that make us feel more sane.

While Denzel Washington’s latest cinematic thrill ride Unstoppable opened this weekend, there is a musical freight train out there that no action hero could ever slow down: Cincinnati’s Foxy Shazam and its hit song Unstoppable.

With Twilight and True Blood vampires dominating the modern spook scene, people have become “suckers” for overly romanticized and sexy visions of the dead. AMC’s latest hit, The Walking Dead, re-enforces that the other side isn’t all that glamorous.

Optimistic Cynicism may be some syntactical nonsense spewed by accident, but Andrew Bank says it’s exactly what Millenials need in a nation of Becks, Gosselins, Paladinos, and Lohans. So what does it really mean?

Everyone’s hating on the Miami Heat. Basketball now has its version of the Yankees’ “evil empire,” and it isn’t so different from those leading the Dark Side in George Lucas’s faraway Star Wars galaxy.

Capital One wants to know “What’s in your wallet?” It should be a library card. Public and university learning centers are underutilized resources, and they could be next exercising craze.

The Social Network is much easier to “like” than its protagonist. Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg is depicted as a man smart enough to see everything but his own weaknesses. Unlike the world’s youngest billionaire, however, David Fincher’s masterpiece is flawless.