Male readers who live and work in estrogen-rich environments may beg to differ, but it looks like women’s menstrual cycles may not sync up after all. (Amusingly, it’s a female scientist who says they do and a bunch of male scientists who say they don’t.) However, I"ve ...
As recently as the early 1970s, millions of Americans couldn"t say the word "cancer" out loud, let alone "breast." Although All in the Family had broached the taboo topic in 1973, it was still a big deal a year later when new First Lady Betty Ford announced matter of factly ...
It’s Black History Month, but gays are the new blacks, so let’s dip into some timely homosexual lore: On Valentine’s Day, 1974, we were informed that “David Bowie turned down a Gay Liberation group who asked him to compose the ‘world’s first Gay National ...
She was an atheist and I’m a (half-assed) Catholic, so neither one of us is supposed to believe in karma. But I like to think that just before a thieving employee hacked her to pieces, that cuntish human toothache known as Madalyn Murray O’Hair pondered the possibility that she was ...
After tormenting the rest of us for nigh on a century, last week that unrepentant communist and multimillionaire folk “singer” Pete Seeger was shipped off to the Devil’s gulag. I awoke to the welcome news via a friend's email that had the subject line “Finally.” (This ...
As Marx famously noted, “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.” But before said “history” gets to repeat itself, it has to be born. And when “tragedy” and “farce” mate for that purpose, they often switch positions. Have you ...
Samuel Leistedt has my dream job. The Belgian forensic psychology professor and his team watched 400 movies and diagnosed 126 characters as true psychopaths. They concluded that many famous movie crazies don’t fit the diagnostic criteria. Psycho (1960), for example, is about a psychotic, ...
Sure, the Irish are a little slow, but it took them longer than you’d think to leap onto the “genocide” bandwagon (or should that be “cattle car”?). Recently released in paperback, historian Tim Pat Coogan’s tellingly titled The Famine Plot is the latest volley ...
George Smitherman is supposed to be the mayor of Toronto. During the 2010 election, the former deputy premier was the liberal elite's standard-bearer. Sure, his name was attached to a few sordid, multi-million-dollar political disasters, but that’s true of pretty much every career politician ...
"Tis the season of reminiscence and prognostication. Let's get the future out of the way first. I"ve made the same three predictions every January for the last thirty years: 1. Margaret Atwood will win the Nobel Prize in Literature; 2. Plastic surgeons will perfect "hand lifts" ...
