World Trade Centre Oculus

Oculus Schmoculus

NEW YORK"€”I"€™m standing in "€œThe Oculus"€ on 9/11 and several thoughts are going through my mind. Like, what the heck is an oculus? I know it's the Latin word for "€œeye,"€ but what I"€™m standing in looks like a frozen Swiss lake encased in the carcass of a whale that's in the ...

Hi! I”€™m Jocelyn! I”€™m Passionate About Cloud Storage!

NEW YORK"€”Hi, I"€™m Jocelyn, and I"€™m passionate about cloud storage! As founder and CEO of MeCloud, I"€™m excited to be bringing a consumer-facing enterprise team to application design while using my 35 years as a Certified Life Transformation Coach to establish a soul connection ...

Messieurs, Ship Some Burkinis Over Here

SANDY HOOK, N.J."€”I need some French gendarmes in riot gear out here at Gunnison Beach. Can we borrow some? It's hard to find any American police officers who will walk up to sunbathing women and make aggressive comments about their body"€”and for good reason. They"€™re gonna get a verbal ...

Kimberly Rhode

Muzzled!

SAN GABRIEL, Calif."€”Only two athletes in history have won medals in six consecutive Olympic Games. Only two. Let me put this in perspective. There are about 13,000 Olympians, both summer and winter, during each four-year cycle. Since 1896, when the modern Games began, there have been 184,869 ...

“€˜New York Times”€™ Endorses Trump

NEW YORK"€”I can prove to a mathematical certainty that The New York Times will endorse Donald Trump for president. My forensic investigation started two weeks ago when I wrote a column about media hysteria called "€œDonald, You Ignorant Slut,"€ and the column got passed around to various ...

How CVS Invaded My Brain

NEW YORK"€”There's some guy at the world headquarters of CVS drugstores screwing with me. I don"€™t know who he is yet, but he lives in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. This is where CVS Health, the largest drugstore chainin the history of drugstores, has its main offices, and where a designated ...

Donald, You Ignorant Slut

NEW YORK—All over America IKEA futons are groaning with the restless insomnia of journalists"€”tossing, turning, cursing the impotence of their melatonin capsules"€”burdened with the future of the Republic. Long nights of torment, and then . . . Morning resolve! Before they"€™ve even ...

Downtown Los Angeles

Angelenos Ask: “Dude, Where’s My Subway?”

LOS ANGELES—When you say, “Don’t worry about me, I’ll just jump on the subway” to someone in El Lay, you get one of the following responses: “Excuse me, would you repeat that?” “Oh, I’m sorry, I thought you’d already arrived in California.” “What?” “We don’t have a ...

Nancy Grace

Pitchforks and Torches in Orlando

NEW YORK—I tried. I really tried. I wanted to be the only person in America who didn’t know anything about the Caylee Anthony murder case. I intentionally avoided it whenever it would come on cable TV. I have such an aversion to that caterwauling condescending public scold of a schoolmarm named ...

Ripley's Believe It Or Not! Museum

Niagara Falls, Ontario: World’s Greatest Tourist Trap

NIAGARA FALLS, ONTARIO, CANADA—I’m in awe of Niagara Falls. Not the actual falls. Sure, that’s intriguing for about five minutes as you stare down into the churning misty canyon and wonder what it would be like to kill yourself. No, what I’m talking about is the Canadian city of some 80,000 ...