Nothing sensible ever gets done by the federal ...
Wednesday this week marks the 25th anniversary of the Chinese army's retaking Tiananmen Square from anti-regime protestors, an event known to Chinese by the date as "6/4." The first thing to be said about this is that if, like me, you welcome summer by reading a good thick middlebrow ...
I tell you, listeners, with so many shady characters in the world, it's good to know there are still people you can ...
After all these years of bloviating, I still can"t tell in advance what will get people riled up. I"ll spend hours in research for a good deep thumb-sucking piece on Pacific theater geostrategy, and it falls dead-born from the press. Another time I"ll procrastinate until an hour before ...
The Europarliament itself is a waste of space, and no sensible person pays any attention to what happens ...
So I was in the downstairs study, idly surfing the Web while the Mrs. watched TV in the next room. The door was open"gotta keep "em in sight"so TV noises drifted in. Among the indrift I caught the tail end of a commercial. I don"t know what was being advertised; some labor-saving ...
Never forget how stupid we were to allow misfits and lunatics from the Third World to settle in our ...
Hope, our grandmothers told us, makes a good breakfast, but a poor supper. My guess is that where hope for convergence of the races in America is concerned, it's around 6 p.m. on that schema. Not suppertime yet, but it"ll soon be getting dark. This gloomy thought was inspired by a couple of ...
Minoritarianism: five percent of the population imposing their standards on the other 95 ...
One summer's day 32 years ago, during a spell of employment at the U.K. offices of Marathon Oil Corp. in London's Marylebone Road, I was taking lunch at a nondescript greasy spoon near those offices when from the near distance there came an almighty THUD. Startled, I looked across at the ...
