Route 27

The Shinnecock Erection

The Indians are getting uppity, at least in Southampton. After a couple centuries of relative peace, the Shinnecock tribe has erected a six-story electronic billboard on otherwise advertising-free Route 27 that flouts every local zoning law. Authorities immediately obtained stop work orders, but ...

Meghan Markle

Meghan Markle: CIA Asset?

Meghan Markle is doing such a good job at destroying the monarchy, she could be a foreign agent. The idea seems far-fetched, that the CIA would train a B-list Hollywood actress and use her as a honey trap to infiltrate the British royal family where she would wreak havoc and bring about demands ...

Sunshine State Exodus

Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani—two brash New Yorkers as New York as New York can get—are planning to become residents of Florida. The president and the former mayor both have homes in the Sunshine State and already spend much of the year down south. Sources tell me the two are planning ...

Work’s for Jerks

I’ve never done an honest day’s work in my long and useless life, so it is acutely annoying when people brag about the horrible jobs they had when they were young. If I had been forced to work at McDonald’s, mow lawns, or be a bicycle messenger, I would keep that shameful secret to ...

Oleg Cassini

Wicked Widow

How much money is enough? Would $30 million suffice for an old woman with no children? I ponder these questions as I try to understand why Marianne Nestor Cassini has spent several months in Nassau County Jail for contempt of court. The widow of Oleg Cassini was left half of his $60 million ...

Guess Which Country

It is dangerous to stereotype nationalities without seeming to be an imperialist pig. However, some international news stories require no dateline for one to know immediately where they occurred. Lying in bed in the morning sipping coffee, my news-junkie girlfriend will suddenly look up from ...

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, 2016

Carpet Bomb

Pat Buckley would be spinning in her grave if she knew what has happened to the Met Gala she used to cohost with Blaine Trump. The benefit for the museum’s Costume Institute is now an orgy of vulgarity starring Kardashians and pop stars I’ve never heard of wearing getups one might see in a ...

Michael Cohen

Rat Tales

Nobody likes a rat. No one outside of his immediate family will be sad to see Michael Cohen go to prison on Monday, May 6, for three years. I thought Donald Trump’s personal lawyer was as loyal as a golden retriever. I was wrong. When the feds raided his office and home and prepared to ...

Manhattan Bridge

Le Dîner de Cons

There are reasons I don’t like to venture from the Upper East Side. I was reminded of several at a dinner party in Brooklyn where I wisely kept my mouth shut as my tablemates spewed errant nonsense on myriad subjects. The host, one of my more liberal classmates at Yale, gathered the six of us ...

Skull and Bones Bonesmen

Remembrance of Yale’s Past

We love Yale sluts! “No” means “yes,” and “yes” means “anal”—that’s the beastly braying cry at Yale these days. The frat boys from Delta Kappa Epsilon (G. W. Bush’s club) have been accused of taunting female undergraduates in this fashion. Yale requested that the fraternity be ...