On the list of unenviable situations faced by weekly columnists, No. 1 would have to be the dreaded ill-timed deadline. I"ll be writing this the day before the presidential election, for it to run the day after. By the time you read this, you"ll know the outcome quite well, whereas I"m ...
"But why would any white guy want to say "nigger"?" My perpetually outraged white leftist friend was, to nobody's shock but hers, outraged after viewing a thread on my Facebook page in which some fellow I don"t know made a comment about the dreaded "N-word." He was ...
I thought it would be a bigger deal. Last week marked the 70th anniversary, to the day, of the hanging of the Nuremberg trial defendants, and I have to admit, I was expecting to read a lot more about it in the press. After all, with only two weeks to go before an election in which "literally ...
Two months ago, I wrote about my hometown and its so-called Mexican problem. I made the point that, generally speaking, most white and Asian Angelenos are okay with the "browning" of traditionally black neighborhoods. More than that, I argued, Mexicans actually do a lot of good around here, ...
I"ve taken a lot of shots at Trump this election season, and there's really no need for me to pile on now. Hell, when your own VP admits that he's ashamed of you, c"mon…it doesn"t take ol" Dave Cole to point out that there's trouble in River City. We know by now that there are ...
By and large, most professional journalists are more than willing to cop to errors. In the course of my work, I"ve been able to get Steve Handelsman, senior national White House and Capitol Hill correspondent for NBC News, to admit that he misrepresented Paul Ryan's Medicare plan during the ...
Holocaust denial is dead, but no one knows it. Worse, it appears as though no one wants to know. Not the media, not Jews, and especially not Jew-haters. But it's true. Denial has gone the way of the woolly mammoth. It exists these days as a bogeyman, a bugbear, an illusion in the minds of hardcore ...
At long last, our traumatic national nightmare has finally come to a close, all thanks to Donald Trump, who last week loudly proclaimed to all who would hear that President Obama was indeed born in the U.S. Well, that's a relief! Trump not only cleared the beleaguered Obama of latent Kenyanism, he ...
The overall quality of Comedy Central's celebrity roasts might have declined measurably since the untimely death of Greg Giraldo (arguably the best roaster ever"sorry, Jeff Ross), but the quality of the network's marketing has never been better. In the case of the recent roast of actor Rob ...
"Trying to organize right-wingers is like herding cats!" During the years I ran the Republican Party Animals organization, I can"t even tally the number of times I was told that. Conservatives, from soft right to hard, like to use that line because, by comparing themselves to cats, they ...
