I do apologize for that little spasm of optimism ...
My favorite jailhouse sex scene is the one in The Longest Yard. Burt Reynolds is in the Florida state pen. A fellow inmate boasts of his powers as a fixer. “I can get you anything in here! I can get you laid in here!” Burt is skeptical, so the fixer sets him up on some petty mission ...
If that'd been me in there with the tiger, I would have wanted a free change of underwear at ...
The Boston Marathon bombing story came garnished with an unusual number of ironies, coincidences, and historical echoes. Irony. Item number 27 in Christian Landers's book Stuff White People Like is "Marathons." Sample from the accompanying text: To a white person, the absolute pinnacle of ...
The U.S.A. is a country, not a ...
We all had a lot of fun at the American Renaissance bash the other weekend. A disproportionate amount of the fun was provided by vlogger Paul Ramsey, whom I recommend for consideration when your next corporate function, birthday party, or bar mitzvah comes around. At one point Paul mocked the ...
When our federal legislators are not planning to open up our country to a hundred million or two fourth-grade dropouts from Mexico and Somali goat-herders, what else are they ...
Margaret Thatcher had some direct impact on my life in three ways that I can recall. One. In January 1979, four months before she assumed office as prime minister, I left England for a trip to the Far East. I was quite affluent at the time (sigh…) and was planning a long nonworking stay out ...
Let's hear it for the dear old B-52, now in its 59th year of ...
Here is an old Soviet-era joke, from the subgenre in which dimwitted peasant Khruschev plays Costello to smart seminarian Stalin’s Abbott. Stalin and Khruschev are touring the East European satellites in Stalin’s personal locomotive. They are sitting in the carriage chugging along ...
