The Week's Most Dreadful, Fretful, and Regretful Headlines GAY ACTIVIST FAKES HIS OWN ABDUCTION Adam Hoover has been a vocal"or, if you prefer, shrill"gay-rights activist in Ohio since before he was legally an adult. Shortly after midnight one night last week the self-proclaimed "equal ...
The Week's Most Vapid, Rabid, and Acrid Headlines TV ANCHOR SUSPENDED FOR SAYING "JIGABOO" The term "jigaboo""which Urban Dictionary describes as “the funniest sounding racial slur known to man”"nearly cost a female broadcaster in Cleveland her job. Last Monday, ...
The Week's Most Resounding, Astounding, and Confounding Headlines THEIR KAMPF Despite the fact that they lost"and 70 years ago at that"it's hard to think of a vanquished group that retains so much staying power in the popular imagination as the Nazis. To hear the modern narrative, one ...
The Week's Most Ferocious, Atrocious, and Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Headlines MUSLIM ARTIST PAINTS "COEXIST" MURAL, REPORTEDLY GETS BEATEN BY MUSLIMS The instantly recognizable "COEXIST" logo"which incorporates an Islamic crescent as its "C," the Star of David ...
The Week's Most Ominous, Ponderous, and Neo-Communist Headlines LYIN" BRIAN WILLIAMS NBC, famous for deliberately editing George Zimmerman's 911 call to create the false impression that he targeted Trayvon Martin for being black, is once again standing knee-deep in a septic tank of lost ...
The Week's Most Dismal, Abysmal, and Baptismal Headlines WHY YOU SHOULDN"T REFER TO PEOPLE OF COLOR AS "COLORED PEOPLE" Grammatically, "colored people" is undeniably more economical than "people of color." Yet for reasons that remain mysterious and entirely unexplained, ...
The Week's Snappiest, Scrappiest, and Crappiest Headlines SHOVING ALL THAT GAY STUFF IN OUR FACES AND DOWN OUR THROATS Two gay icons from the 1970s faced a heated gay backlash last week for making comments that hurt gays" feelings and made gays feel ashamed of being gay. Billy Crystal first ...
The Week's Most Frustrating, Irritating, and Aggravating Headlines FRANCE MARCHES FOR FREE SPEECH, THEN ARRESTS DOZENS FOR SPEAKING On Sunday January 11, an estimated 3.7 million people in France took to the streets to denounce terrorism and support free speech in the wake of a massacre at the ...
The Week's Most Hateful, Fateful, and Ungrateful Headlines EXCEPT FOR THE SEVEN BILLION OF US WHO AREN"T CHARLIE HEBDO, WE ARE ALL CHARLIE HEBDO The news story that dominated all others last week was the massacre at the Paris offices of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. The attack, which ...
PIERCING LBJ's HALO Those who do not learn from history are doomed to watch stupid Hollywood movies about it. The film Selma, set for release on Friday, is said to be the first major Hollywood drama featuring Martin Luther King as a main character. Ava DuVernay directed it and as a result has ...
