Male Bonding at an All-Female College

A group of biologically female good ol"€™ boys gathers every week at Oakland's girls-only Mills College to discuss how oppressed they feel by gender-specific pronouns. These dudes call the group Mouthing Off!, and every week's session begins with the boys going around in a circle and solemnly ...

Hunting the Domestic Polar Bear

Why has the American media suddenly snapped out of a self-induced coma to pay attention to the Knockout Game? Gullible journos are acting as if it’s a spanking-new phenomenon that is sweeping the country, but the practice of black wolf packs cold-cocking pedestrians for cheap thrills has been ...

TV Since JFK

Friday marks the 50th anniversary of JFK's assassination. Putting that aside, the most important question for the average American would be: How does the modern primetime network TV lineup differ from that of 50 years ago? I don"€™t own a TV"€”yes, I’m one of those people"€”so most of ...

Another Word for “€œHolocaust”€

Last week saw commemorations of the 75th anniversary of Germany's Kristallnacht and the 80th anniversary of the Ukrainian Holodomor. Judging from Western news coverage, Kristallnacht wins by a landslide. On Google News, results for the words “Kristallnacht” and “Holocaust” ...

Getting a Grip on Extremism (and Massaging it to Completion)

After leftist radicals shot and killed a pair of Golden Dawn members in Athens on Friday, news outlets referred to the killers as members of an "€œextremist"€ group. This was odd, as I"€™ve become conditioned to see that particular scare term used only for people and things deemed to the ...

Dutch Santa’s Little Black Helper

For years now the world has been trying to tell The Netherlands that one of its favorite holiday traditions is an unacceptably racist vestige of colonial bloodletting, but the stubborn Dutch bastards just won"€™t listen. So now the United Nations has decided to get involved. Since the mid-1800s, ...

The Little Blonde Gypsy Girl

Investigators who"€™d raided a dilapidated Roma camp in central Greece last week in search of illegal drugs and firearms didn"€™t expect to find a pale-skinned four-year-old girl that one Greek paper is now calling "€œa blonde angel without an identity."€ Photos of the girl taken after ...

Marine Le Pen

Something Smells Vichy in France

Can anyone point me in the direction of the far right? How far is it, say, from the center? Is it more “out there” than the extreme right? Is the far right limitless, or do you eventually reach a dead end? I suppose that if the world were flat, one could hypothetically sail so far ...

Nathan Verhelst

Softly Putting the Monster to Sleep

At age 44, Nathan Verhelst looked into a mirror and saw a monster staring back. Born Nancy Verhelst, the Belgian transsexual recently granted a "€œfarewell interview"€ to a newspaper wherein he/she bemoans a love-starved childhood: I was the girl that nobody wanted. While my brothers were ...

High Enough to Die

Ideally, a recreational drug shouldn"€™t make your flesh fall off your bones. Nor should it cause you to overheat and drop dead onto the dance floor. But we don"€™t live in a perfect world, now, do we? Having come of age during the drug-soaked 1970s, I learned to cast a cynical eye toward ...