Al Franken

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Most Evil, Medieval, and Primeval Headlines THIS WEEK’S HOLLYWOOD PERVERTS For far too long, Hollywood has claimed to be the nation’s moral conscience. This is why it’s been so thrilling over the past few weeks to watch Hollywood stabbing itself to death. This week brings another ...

Louis C.K.

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Chilliest, Frilliest, and Silliest Headlines HOLLYWOOD’S SEXUAL-ASSAULT FREIGHT TRAIN KEEPS ON A-ROLLIN’ Ever since the tiny elites who cluster together in tiny swaths of America’s coasts appointed themselves the moral arbiters of an entire nation that they deem to be teeming ...

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Most Putrescent, Pubescent, and Adolescent Headlines CELEBRATING THE COMMUNIST CENTURY One thing all good students of history know is that despite the passage of time, people never get smarter. This week will mark the hundredth anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. You may have ...

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Curviest, Perviest, and Scurviest Headlines LEFTIST JOURNALISTS AND THE WOMEN THEY CLAIM TO GROPE It is one of life’s sublime pleasures to see a self-described truth-digging “journalist” get hoisted on his own petard. It’s even more pleasurable when there are two such ...

William Shakespeare

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The Week’s Most Appalling, Squalling, and Stonewalling Headlines TRIGGERED BY SHAKESPEARE England’s prestigious Cambridge University lost a little bit more of its luster by issuing a preemptive “trigger warning” to students of English literature who might make the mistake of reading ...

HRH Princess Sikhanyiso Dlamini (centre), dancing at Umhlanga, 2006

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Most Hateful, Fateful, and Ungrateful Headlines BANNING CHRISTIANS IN ENGLAND Anyone who alleges that England’s elites are forcing a deliberate cultural transformation upon indigenous Britons by squashing the rights of Christians and coddling those of Muslims is obviously a paranoid ...

Harvey Weinstein

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Craggiest, Shaggiest, and Faggiest Headlines HARVEY WEINSTEIN TAKES A SHOWER Movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, whose big ugly brick of a head looks as if it was sloppily sculpted out of chopped liver, is the living embodiment of the fact that Hollywood is disproportionately ruled by ...

Hugh Hefner

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Most Magnetic, Prophetic, and Apathetic Headlines HUGH HEFNER: DEATH OF A “SADISTIC PIMP” If Playboy founder and American icon Hugh Hefner had died a generation ago, he would have been fondly remembered not only as a publishing titan but as a champion of civil rights, free speech, ...

Valerie Plame

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The Week’s Most Aggressive, Obsessive, and Oppressive Headlines VALERIE PLAME NAMES THE WRONG NAME As everyone knows, only some loser goofball anti-Semite would suggest something so preposterous as the idea that wealthy Jewish Americans influence America’s military policy in the Middle East. ...

Stevie Wonder

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Soggiest, Foggiest, and Groggiest Headlines STEVIE WONDER: CLIMATE DENIERS ARE BLIND Last Tuesday—undoubtedly guided onstage by his handlers—Grammy-winning sight-deprived musician Stevie Wonder joined other superstars in a telethon designed to raise money for the victims of ...