Last week's suicide bombing in Manchester was the first Muslim terrorist attack on the West that didn"t make me angry or sad. I"m still haunted by and livid about Charlie Hebdo, the Bataclan, and Nice, to name only three. I still have nightmares"impotent dreams of vengeance, ...
I still haven"t memorized my cell phone number, or my husband's. I don"t remember the year my mother or father died, let alone the month and day. I can"t remember my wedding anniversary, either. However, I"ve never forgotten that, sometime between the release of Annie Hall (1977) ...
I subject every new, hotly touted study to the Grandma Says test. That is, if you stick the phrase "Grandma says" in front of the study's headline-making finding, and said finding fits, then it's legit. Can you imagine your grandma saying, for instance, "Children raised by gay men ...
"Stop being juveniles," a Lindsay aide, Donald Evans, admonished a construction worker. "What do you mean, being a juvenile?" he replied, punching Mr. Evans on the chin. Every May 8 for over ten years, I"ve marked the anniversary of the 1970 Hard Hat Riots by calling them ...
Decades after dying by her own hand, a renowned female American poet makes the news. Sessions with her psychotherapist become public, revealing accusations of abuse and other sordid details of her already legendary life. Once more, critics and readers wonder: Was she a victim? A heroine? Or"was ...
There Affectation, with a sickly mien, Shows in her cheek the roses of eighteen, Practis"d to lisp, and hang the head aside, Faints into airs, and languishes with pride, On the rich quilt sinks with becoming woe, Wrapp"d in a gown, for sickness, and for show. The fair ones feel such ...
"While Rand's inner circle continued to fray, Objectivism in New York was reaching fever pitch. With much fanfare, in May 1967 NBI signed fifteen-year lease on offices in the Empire State Building, then the world's tallest building. Even though their offices were in the basement, it was still ...
I call them the "Ackchyuallies": the concern trolls who reflexively politicize and pollute every occasion of mass recollection, wailing, "Columbus was a mass murderer!" and "Thanksgiving is racist!" But when rock & roll pioneer Chuck Berry died last month, for once ...
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Filmmaker John Waters is one of those weather-vane celebs whom conservatives celebrate when they point in roughly the right direction. For instance, and ironically, I"m writing this the day the inventor of the rainbow flag died, and the very gay Waters has expressed a bemused hostility to ...
Empire waist floral baby doll dress, worn over black cycling shorts? Check. Doc Martens (or cheap reasonable facsimile)? Check. Pink rape whistle and bowling ball bag purse? Check. What else might you discover among a young downtown gal's belongings, circa 1990? Pretty on the Inside, the Nonesuch ...
