Irving Kristol (sort of) said, "A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged," a quip which, besides not being as true as it should be, rather perversely makes me think of Clay Aiken. After all, Aiken was robbed twice by black guys"although not in the Paula Deen sense, or else his ...
One evening back in the late 1980s, I returned to my then-apartment on Toronto's Dundonald Street and heard the unmistakable refrain of "Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead" seeping out of the super's place on the ground floor. The elevator was broken (again) so I took the stairs to my ...
I quit smoking around 10 years after I quit drinking, but I miss smoking much more, and it was far harder to give up. Especially since, right after my last cigarette, I met my future husband"a smoker. Because God can be a jerk. (Incidentally, by "smoking," I mean tobacco. Weed never ...
When I read about Joan Rivers" death, my eyes welled up with stinging tears. Not because she"d died (come on: she was 81) but in anticipation of the mouthwatering multi-million-dollar malpractice suit that was sure to follow. Her endoscopy clinic denies it, but reportedly, a doctor ...
I met writer and photographer Rick McGinnis about ten years ago, but by rights, we should have known each other much longer. We both live in Toronto, enjoy roughly the same music, and therefore should have bumped into (or in my case, barfed on) each other sooner than we did. When waxing nostalgic, ...
"Exotic dancers. They"re not exotic, and they"re not dancers," explains comedian Ellen Cleghorne here. "It's like calling a pedophile an "exotic babysitter."" That joke popped into my head when I read about gay stripper "Mickey D Liscious," who also worked ...
In an interview last week with Taleeb Starkes, podcaster Adam Carolla asked the author of The Un-Civil War: Blacks vs. Niggers: Confronting the Subculture Within the African-American Community a cut-to-the-chase question: If Starkes, who is black, could wave a magic wand and change one thing about ...
ThoughtCatalog.com has had a crappy week. Many people are suddenly hearing about that upstart online magazine for the first time, on account of not one but two "controversies" of the sorry sort we"re all too familiar with. (Not me. Full disclosure: Thought Catalog published my recent ...
The Germans may or may not have preferred to march in the shade, but the French proclivity for lolling topless in the sun is no chauvinistic joke. Right after the first female doffed her bikini bra in 1960s Saint Tropez, such exhibitionism became a point of naked national pride. The smug French ...
Here's the fastest, surest way to identify the subspecies hackus punditus"watch for them to display one particular behavior, especially when deadlines loom during summer months: They invariably begin one of their columns with the phrase "Webster's dictionary defines..." But while it ...
