"I just report the news." That phrase may not have the currency of "The check's in the mail," but it's all too familiar as every journalist's favorite alibi. They always trot it out after printing photos of one man's last seconds alive or after swarming churchgoers at memorials to slaughtered ...
For folks who recoil at the thought of hunting animals, progressives sure do enjoy stalking human prey, especially the female of the species. (If I didn"t think "serial killer profiling" was mostly Clever Hans horseshit, I"d speculate on how closely the average Obama voter matches ...
For right-wingers, November proved to be the cruelest month in quite some time. The Kenyan Klepto won the White House again. Speaking of democracy: Here in Toronto, our most conservative mayor in living memory"one elected in what passes these days for a landslide"was kicked out of office ...
If only Romney had campaigned against Elmo instead of Big Bird. Then again, the sordid details of Sesame Street puppeteer Kevin Clash's alleged dalliances with four then-underage boys didn"t emerge until after the election. And let's face it: The Democrats would"ve spun the GOP ...
You know how "If you remember the 60s, you weren"t there"? Here's mine: "It's not "genocide" if you"re still here." Sorry, disgruntled African Americans. There are exponentially more of you in the United States today than there were when your "genocide" ...
Some of my best friends are "birthers." So far I"ve resisted the temptation to sign up with them, although I loved that bit about the signature on that Hawaiian "Certificate of Live Birth" possibly reading "U. K. L. Lee." (Get it? "Ukulele"?) I wasted a brief ...
Mostly since John Milton's Satan, we"ve perversely preferred our villains seductive: charming, witty, brilliant, and physically graceful"sometimes precariously more so than the tale's presumptive hero. Weren"t millions enraptured"with Pauline Kael's imprimatur"by an idealized ...
Canada wouldn’t let Terry Jones into the country last week, and you’re thinking: “Who can blame them? He was the least funny Python.” But I’m talking about the Reverend Terry Jones of Koran-burning infamy. So now you’re going, “Even better. What a ...
Poor Richard Widmark. He made over 60 movies, but when he died in 2008, obit reels highlighted one infamous scene from 1947's Kiss of Death, the film that made him a star. The actor was doomed to be remembered best as a sadistic reverse Sisyphus, pushing that screaming wheelchair-bound woman ...
How many feminists does it take to screw in a lightbulb? If you replied, "That's not funny!" you need to get with it. The correct answer is "the hot tub." That's according to The Atlantic's Sandra Tsing Loh in a widely discussed (and derided) piece in that magazine's October ...
