Emperor of the North, the classic 1973 film directed by Robert Aldrich, details the dysfunctional relationship between train-hopping hobos and the railroad men who kill them. It's the kind of totally unique "70s film that could not get made today, a film in which the male leads are masculine, ...
To put a new spin on the old put-down of vegans, how do you know if you"re a member of the alt-right? Don"t worry"if you"re not, someone will tell you in the comments section. Alt-rightists love being able to cry "he's not one of us!" Milo Yiannopoulos? He thinks he's one of ...
President Obama is spending the waning months of his administration with his grubby hands in an oddly appropriate place: the toilet. Apparently, the prez has an obsession with trans folk and bathrooms. Yes, the "men in the ladies" room" issue, which I tackled last September, has not ...
If you strip away the swastikas and goose-stepping, The Producers is, at heart, a story about wresting success from failure. Max Bialystock is a Broadway producer who has lost the ability to give theatergoers what they want, so he hatches a brilliant plan: If he can"t mount a successful show, ...
By any measure, the Los Angeles Times is a bad newspaper. Sure, it's the fourth-largest paper by circulation in the U.S., but that's akin to calling someone the fourth-least-terminal patient in the inoperable-cancer ward. Simply put, the Times stinks. I mean, this is a paper that once ran a ...
The hubbub surrounding last week's announcement that "Underground Railroad" conductor Harriet Tubman would be movin" on up to the obverse of the twenty-dollar bill led me to flash back to how I first entered the world of professional blogging. In an unlikely turn of events, I became a ...
However the Trump War resolves itself, we"ve already seen at least one casualty"conservative media cohesion. Sides are being drawn, and blood feuds have been declared. As The New York Times recently pointed out, Trump-inspired divisions and conflicts among normally allied conservative media ...
Growing up in L.A. in the late "60s and early "70s, I certainly had my fill of hippies (and then some). And I have to say, the hippies of that time weren"t all bad. Slovenly, spoiled, self-righteous, sure. But some of their rhetoric was totally on point. "Always question yer ...
It would be an ignominious defeat worthy of a Shakespearean tragedy if abortion ends up being the issue that derails Trumpas the Tank Engine. By claiming that there would have to be "some form of punishment" levied against any woman who would dare get an abortion in Donald Trump's ...
The left's grip on reality has never exactly been vise-like. But it seems to me that leftists are losing it"more than usual"over Trump. And I"m no Trump fan, to be sure. Last week I was amused to see myself involuntarily added to the Wikipedia page of "prominent individuals" ...
