It’s Hard out Here for a Dudebro

When I was a kid, a “dude” was a cowboy who worked on a ranch and had an abiding fondness for his horse. I didn’t start hearing “dude” used as a generic term meaning “dumb, hairy, cloddish male” until the late 1970s, when suddenly my world seemed flooded ...

In Defense of Neanderthals

The most stubbornly hypocritical glitch in the egalitarian mindset is that eugenics is roundly and vigorously dismissed as a dangerous and discredited pseudoscience...unless it can be wielded to portray ideological enemies as genetically inferior throwbacks. Thus, the same sheltered, daydreaming ...

Australia: Camp of the Ain’ts

Attention, all you boat people headed Down Under: Australia doesn"€™t want you. Knowing this, the two main candidates for prime minister in Saturday's national elections each offered plans to turn away the tens of thousands of economic and political refugees that illegally arrive by boat in Oz ...

Bradley Manning

Dangerously Sensitive

Political correctness, that great misguided ennobler/enabler of disgruntled losers and embittered misfits, may have helped pave the way for Bradley Manning and Nidal Hasan to achieve infamy. Before his decision to start leaking highly sensitive military information to svelte albino panda cub ...

Fear of a Clown Planet

After all the progress we’ve made as a nation, it’s depressingly obvious that Americans still harbor a deep-seated hatred and fear of clowns. This shameful fact became evident in the wake of an incident at the Missouri State Fair when a rodeo clown wearing a Barack Obama mask was made ...

The Barren Wombs of Smart Women

A statistical analysis from England suggests that a woman’s IQ is inversely proportional to her desire to breed. This, in turn, suggests that the world will grow dumber with every new day. In his book The Intelligence Paradox, London School of Economics researcher Satoshi Kanazawa surveyed ...

It’s Hard to Be a Homo in Russia

A new Cold War is brewing between Russia and the West, but this time it's being fought over the rainbow flag. As the USA rapidly morphs into a continent-spanning version of Fire Island, a homo paradise where tiny fairy sculptors dream there will one day be a 90-foot statue of Harvey Milk wearing ...

The Spooks of Hazzard

Only in America can white people organize an event intended to mock poor Southern whites, have black people crying that it's racist against blacks, and then have white people apologizing to blacks about it. That's what happened in the small Arizona town of Queen Creek, whose black population is a ...

The Motor City Blows its Pistons

Detroit, a city once known as “The Paris of the West” and “The Arsenal of Democracy,” has fallen and it can’t get up. In 1960 it boasted the nation’s highest per-capita income; now it has the highest quotient of low-income residents of any large American city. ...

Ballad of a Marked Man

George Zimmerman is now a free man. He is free to be stalked, threatened, harassed, persecuted, and possibly killed at the hands of the perpetual malcontents who are sorely displeased with his acquittal late Saturday night. But he is not free to sleep soundly"€”not now, nor possibly for the rest ...