On Monday, President Trump addressed over a hundred thousand Hindoos of every caste and Vedic creed. Liberal bubble-dwellers were stunned that so many brown people would exalt our Orange Maharaja, but for anyone who’s visited the subcontinent, it makes perfect sense. The people of India love ...
My friends on the far right see Marxists under every bed. But that's crazy, because everyone knows that Marxists don"t hide under beds"they bang their grad students on them. Just don"t say that aloud in polite company. If you dare mention that academia has become a decadent nest of ...
Recruitment software start-up Entelo just released a brave new product: Diversity. This "proprietary algorithm" scours the Internet to determine the sex and ethnicity of prospective employees, then assembles an all-star equality team with the power to satisfy any government or media ...
Darren Aronofsky's Noah accomplishes what any great myth should: it communicates moral truths through a fantasy. Mankind has destroyed the Creator's creation, and so Man must be destroyed. Women and children will not be spared. Every person must die except Noah and his family"and who knows? ...
There is no magic in the new Cosmos"no angels or demons, no dragons in Eden, just cold dust and burning gas viewed through rose-colored glasses. No creator gods dominate the production, unless you count the divinized Carl Sagan. His monist prophecy resounds from the outset: The cosmos is all ...
Of all the millions of ways to be an asshole, the status quo regards "racism" as the most alarming. Put on your X-ray specs and you’ll see the contagion everywhere. According to a recent study, 10,000 "racist and ethnic slur terms" are hurled on Twitter daily. Imagine all the ...
I watched Pink Floyd's trippy rock opera The Wall on VHS at least a dozen times as a kid. So when I heard that Roger Waters was dragging The Wall Live stage show out of the 1980s and bringing it to Atlanta last month, I had to buy two tickets. Nostalgia compelled me to lay my dollars down, and ...
People often compare video gamers to crackheads, but that’s unfair. Crackheads are way more motivated to get out of the house. While gamers cozy up on the couch to battle orcs and inhale their own farts, crackheads dart through shadowy housing projects, use their wits to find the next $20 ...
Did life evolve by purely natural processes? Could random mutation and natural selection really generate the human brain or the electrosensory system of the duck-billed platypus? Or did an intelligent force shape our universe? Am I a total retard for asking? As of April 20, Tennessee teachers ...
"What day did Jesus die on?" my friend asked. "It was on Christmas, right?" He wasn’t pulling my leg. We both grew up in a vipers’ tangle of Southern Baptist fundamentalism, but obviously he was better at avoiding church than I was. He never had to endure relentless ...