The Week’s Most Disturbing, Perturbing, and Unnerving Headlines BLACKS V. BOARD OF EDUCATION Last Saturday marked the 60-year anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision that desegregated America’s public schools. Predictably, the hyper-sentimental ...
The Week's Most Aimless, Brainless, and Shameless Headlines A CAVALCADE OF APOLOGIES Crushed under the increasingly harsh mandates of the Global Church of Human Equality, the world turned into a giant confession booth last week. First up"because they will always stand last in line under this ...
The Week's Most Treacherous, Lecherous, and Obstreperous Headlines PICKING AT SCABS IN NORTHERN IRELAND The Police Service of Northern Ireland arrested Sinn Féin president and suspected former IRA bigwig Gerry Adams on April 30 and held him for questioning about the 1972 abduction, torture, ...
The Week's Most Steroidal, Negroidal, and Hemorrhoidal Headlines WHITE MEN, WRONG WORDS Two elderly white men got in trouble last week for making the sort of comments that people who hate elderly white men expect them to make. This led to outrage (and possibly a sense of relieved vindication) ...
The Week's Most Suspicious, Seditious, and Meretricious Headlines NANCY PELOSI's FOOT FETISH Last week in San Francisco, former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi got down on her knees"which, for all we know, may be cosmetically enhanced"to humbly wash the feet of a pair of immigrant ...
The Week's Most Regrettable, Lamentable, and Unforgettable Headlines HAPPY TAX FREEDOM DAY! As Americans scramble to file their 2013 tax returns by tomorrow's midnight deadline, let us never forget that on average, we work from January 1 to around April 15 merely to give the government the lunch ...
The Week's Most Momentous, Horrendous, and Portentous Headlines THE WORLD's MOST HOMOPHOBIC WEB BROWSER The Pink Hydra has slain another Web titan. Although Brendan Eich is the creator of the ubiquitous programming language JavaScript, he lasted a little more than a week as CEO of the Mozilla ...
The Week's Most Fallacious, Vexatious, and Ostentatious Headlines THE NOBLE CAMPAIGN TO FIGHT (SPECIFIC FORMS OF) RACIAL STEREOTYPING Who would have thought that you could take people of widely divergent racial and religious backgrounds, cram them together"often against their will"and ...
The Week's Most Wasteful, Disgraceful, and Distasteful Headlines DEATH OF A HOMO-HATING LION Westboro Baptist Church Pastor Fred “God Hates Fags” Phelps, perhaps America’s greatest performance artist of the past generation, has gone creaking into the afterlife. The former lawyer, ...
The Week’s Most Abominable, Improbable, and Unconscionable Headlines IT’S HARD OUT HERE FOR AN ASPIRING RAPPER Although one can’t swing a baseball bat these days without accidentally hitting a hip-hop artist who’s been convicted of a violent crime, imagine how much harder ...
