America's Great Weird Religion hit Manhattan's Great White Way last Thursday night as South Park's Trey Parker and Matt Stone premiered their musical The Book of Mormon to rapturously rhapsodic rave reviews. The Mormons" arrival on Broadway"even as objects of ridicule"signals ...
Japan has endured a three-headed monster of colossal catastrophes over the past ten days"a 9.0 earthquake, a tsunami with 30-foot crests, and an unresolved nuclear-reactor crisis that unspooled as a direct result of the first two disasters. The temblor and tidal wave can be blamed on a ...
Over one cruelly protracted evening last November in the tiny Texas town of Cleveland"up in the ragged piney woods fifty miles northeast of the giant flying-cockroach terrarium called Houston"an 11-year-old girl was passed around like a meaty pre-pube rag doll between two dozen or so males ...
Based on their entertainment value alone, I believe that the Phelps family of Topeka's Westboro Baptist Church deserves First Amendment protection. For entirely different reasons, the US Supreme Court agreed that these loud, kooky, and possibly inbred fag-bashers deserve such protection, too. In a ...
Ever since last August's game-changing New Yorker article about the intergalactically wealthy Koch brothers and their unholy, unfeeling, and ecologically unsanitary war to harass and undermine Our First Black President, American leftist tribespeople have finally been able to put a face on their Own ...
Watching events unspool in the Wisconsin State Capitol over the past few days, one would think the world is ending. In a very specific sense, it is"or at least I hope so. It started when the state's new Republican Governor Scott Walker placed a bill before the legislature that would curtail ...
I believe it is still within my constitutional rights to dislike Rahm Emanuel, but in the spirit of universal fairness which will likely destroy Western civilization, I wouldn"t feel entirely justified in disliking him until I gave him a fair hearing. Before researching this article I ...
It seemed like only a few days ago that Egypt's humble peasant masses set hearts ablaze worldwide with their spirited defense of universal rights and basic human dignity. The planet rejoiced as it witnessed a spontaneous outburst of democratic principles in action. The future looked so bright, the ...
A global scandal erupted last week after someone complained about the manner in which a grocery store in Mountain Home, Arkansas was displaying an Us Weekly cover featuring sextuagenarian songbird Elton John, his widow-peaked "partner" of 17 years David Furnish, and their month-old ...
Upon superficial inspection, still-living superstar hacker Julian Assange and long-dead commie-stalker Joseph McCarthy seem like natural-born enemies and political polar opposites. Technically, the Arctic and Antarctica are polar opposites, too, but are they really that different? Comparing anyone ...
