The U.S. women's soccer team is whiter than a Bernie Sanders campaign ...
Advice to investors. In last week's column "Don"t Sup With a FUP" I offered a golden nugget of life advice to the younger generation: Avoid fucked-up people. Now that we know that Greece is the geographical equivalent of Lindsay Lohan, perhaps I should do another advice column, this ...
Political conformity has settled like a thick fog over the whole American ...
This week's column is in the noble Derbian tradition of advice to the younger generation. From the aery height of three score and ten I offer you nuggets of wisdom, wrenched with difficulty and some pain from a lifetime's observation and reflection. Pay attention, you millennials and Gen Z-ers! ...
Professional politicians are, according to me, such loathsome, repulsive critters that non-politicians are always appealing by ...
In the realm of science fiction, few things are as much fun to read about as the near extinction of the human race. Some awful catastrophe strikes humanity, wiping out all but a tiny remnant. Assuming the annihilated masses had some foreknowledge of the event, how did they behave as doom ...
The media here are sprinkling gasoline around in a smoking ...
T.S. Eliot's observation that "human kind cannot bear very much reality" is surely up among the half-dozen wisest things ever said about our common nature. There is, of course, individual variation in how much reality we can bear. I flatter myself by believing I am up toward the high end. ...
Israel seems pretty well able to defend itself; and her enemies don't seem very ...
Every nation has, in its collective psyche, a special place for its bloodiest war: a place warmed with intense emotions and turbulent with unresolved"probably unresolvable"controversies. For Americans that place is occupied by the Civil War, the 150th anniversary of whose ending in April ...
