Calling the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator one of my hobbies isn"t entirely accurate; it would be like someone whose knowledge of cinema doesn"t extend beyond 1990s Hong Kong actioners calling themselves a "movie buff." And according to Myers-Briggs, I"m an INTJ"which means the ...
On assignment in other countries, David Frum would fish out likely friendlies in hotel bars by yelling, "Irv Weinstein!" Neither Frum nor I grew up in Buffalo, but their local TV stations" signals were strong enough to stretch into southernmost Canada. I guess if I ever actually left ...
The difference between stereotypes and clichés is that stereotypes are mostly accurate, and clichés mostly aren"t. Oscar Wilde turned platitudes inside out""It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame"; "Work is the curse of the drinking ...
I don"t like Donald Trump on the First Amendment, don"t trust him on the Second, and positively loathe him on eminent domain. I covered that here at Taki's in October 2012, when I was also still pissed at Trump for firing Adam Carolla on The Apprentice. Trump says creepy crap about his ...
We rightly bitch about Obama's two-term international "apology tour," but what to call Canadian PM Justin Trudeau's compulsive peregrinations? The "frivolity tour," perhaps? Sure, conservatives can lamely joke that as long as PM Zoolander's not in Parliament, he can do less harm. ...
How long has The New Yorker been coughing up blood? Not that the magazine ever possessed the talismanic qualities for me that it does for its cultlike subscribers"many of whom, let's be honest, use their (mostly unread) copies as decorative accents, sort of higher-brow Hummels. But one of my ...
I moved out of Boystown over a decade ago, but still trek down there every five weeks to get my hair done. I can"t stomach the prospect of explaining to some new, nearby stylist that yes, I do want a perm, and yes, my hair is supposed to look more or less like Barbara Stanwyck's wig in Double ...
Such are the epochal times we"re living in that even timeworn truisms are at risk of obsolescence. Take "Is the Pope Catholic?" Those of a certain age may prefer Steve Martin's absurdist gloss""Does the Pope shit in the woods?""but the original has been every wise guy's ...
Back in April, former Canadian Supreme Court justice Louise Arbour mocked Mark Steyn and Nigel Farage's "weird obsession with sex" during a debate on the refugee crisis, after both men dared to mention Muslim migrants" well-documented propensity for rape. But as I"ve noted here ...
The first vegan I ever met was a straight-edge Christian anarchist from England who was crashing with my roommates and me under circumstances that probably weren"t that clear to me then, never mind half a lifetime later. I was still trying to twig one roommate's"the radical feminist art ...
