And while that rankles, it’s equally as hard to cede the “nerd” label to well-adjusted types with nary an esoteric obsession. You cool jerks would never have sat at our lunch table, etc. Enter ...

Has self-proclaimed nerdiness gone too far and stripped meaning from the term? In this sketch from the hipster-skewering Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein comedy series "Portlandia," currently in the ...

I’m from Portland and I hate Portlandia. But this clip from the latest episode is by far the most accurate thing Brownstein and Armisen have ever come up with and it has nothing to do with Portland.

For those who neither watch Portlandia nor read Les Chappell’s weekly recaps, YouTube user smathew88 has posted the unsettlingly earnest-seeming nerd PSA from last week’s episode so that even those ...