A concerned reader sent me a link to this video in which, he said, my name was taken in vain. Yes, I know, it’s an irritating imposition on readers to open a column by linking to a 31-minute video clip. I’ll be offering a concise executive summary in just a moment, with links into the ...
As for calling addiction an illness, that's ...
Call me a cockeyed optimist, but I took heart from the micro-fuss over Jerry Seinfeld's push-back against PC bullying the other day. In case you missed it, Seinfeld was being interviewed on TV about his recent comedy series. “I have noticed that most of the guests [i.e., on Seinfeld’s ...
Can I say "Black Sea"? Perhaps it's racist. Let me just consult the Radio Derb style book. One can never be too careful nowadays ...
The university I attended was (and still is) in west-central London. A fifteen-minute walk from the main campus got you to Tottenham Court Road tube station, with Charing Cross Road heading off to the south toward the theater district and the National Gallery. I was not much of a theater- or ...
May your oats always be sweet and your fetlocks ...
"Never darken my door again" was the standard Victorian parting shot to a person you wanted to be rid of. (It was adjusted in one of Bridget Jones’s diaries to: “Never darken my towels again.”) In case it slipped your attention"perhaps because you haven’t been ...
A week of treason, timidity, and ...
The talk is all of pot. Not "pot" the utensil, as in Confucius's fine aphorism “A man is not a pot,” but cannabis sativa, AKA grass, tea, weed, bud, ganja, Mary Jane, bhang, wacky baccy. States are legalizing the stuff all over, although, since pot remains federally proscribed, ...
I personally think the concept of dual citizenship is an abomination. Patriotism can have only one ...
