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Having already confessed to being a reader of middlebrow fiction, I get occasional emails from readers asking for recommendations. Well, there's no disputing matters of taste, so don"t blame me if yours isn"t mine, and this particular recommendation may be too Brit-oriented for ...
Most people, including most of the people paid to write public commentary, are innumerate; and that makes much of what they say ...
The mass drowning of eight or nine hundred"nobody knows precisely"illegal immigrants in the Mediterranean last Sunday triggered a lot of commentary about these boat people, most of it stupid. Here are some of the grosser stupidities. They"re just seeking a better life. Who isn"t? ...
We live in such an unromantic ...
What was your first thought on seeing that video clip of the white cop shooting the fleeing black perp? Mine was: "What fresh lie is this?" The point of reference here is the Trayvon Martin case of three years ago, when NBC doctored George Zimmerman's conversations with his dispatcher to ...
Nationalists want all the diverse peoples of the world to be secure in their own cultures and traditions, each in a sovereign nation of its ...
Virtue totalitarianism. For devout Christian bakers, florists, and photographers throughout the U.S.A., the message going out from the news recently has been the one Anouk Aimee received from a helpful stranger she met while crossing the desert in the 1962 movie Sodom and Gomorrah: "Watch ...
The California water crisis is one sign that the U.S.A. has a bad, stupid population ...
[Scene: A bakery store somewhere in the U.S.A.] Customer: "Good morning!" Store clerk: "Hello. How may I help you?" Customer: "Do you do wedding cakes?" Clerk: "Yes, we do." Customer: "Great. My partner and I ...
So the U.S. is bombing Iran's enemies in one country, while helping to bomb its allies in ...
