I"m sure it must have seemed like a good idea at the time. My friend Larry Thomas, an actor primarily known for one iconic role"that of the ill-tempered chef known as the "Soup Nazi" on the TV show Seinfeld"spent this past Sept. 11 as I would imagine most of us did: mesmerized ...
When Democrats lose big, one thing is for sure"the pitchforks and hangin" ropes are coming out. Using lynchings to deal with defeat is as old as, well, how old is the Democratic Party? And so it is now. The Dems were pantsed by a vulgar, obnoxious, politically inexperienced reality-show ...
In last week's column, I wished the Trump camp good luck, while taking great pains to not make a prediction regarding the outcome of the election. In my private life, I was not so coy. I laid down several money bets that Trump would lose, not because I wanted him to (I didn"t), but because deep ...
On the list of unenviable situations faced by weekly columnists, No. 1 would have to be the dreaded ill-timed deadline. I"ll be writing this the day before the presidential election, for it to run the day after. By the time you read this, you"ll know the outcome quite well, whereas I"m ...
"But why would any white guy want to say "nigger"?" My perpetually outraged white leftist friend was, to nobody's shock but hers, outraged after viewing a thread on my Facebook page in which some fellow I don"t know made a comment about the dreaded "N-word." He was ...
I thought it would be a bigger deal. Last week marked the 70th anniversary, to the day, of the hanging of the Nuremberg trial defendants, and I have to admit, I was expecting to read a lot more about it in the press. After all, with only two weeks to go before an election in which "literally ...
Two months ago, I wrote about my hometown and its so-called Mexican problem. I made the point that, generally speaking, most white and Asian Angelenos are okay with the "browning" of traditionally black neighborhoods. More than that, I argued, Mexicans actually do a lot of good around here, ...
I"ve taken a lot of shots at Trump this election season, and there's really no need for me to pile on now. Hell, when your own VP admits that he's ashamed of you, c"mon…it doesn"t take ol" Dave Cole to point out that there's trouble in River City. We know by now that there are ...
By and large, most professional journalists are more than willing to cop to errors. In the course of my work, I"ve been able to get Steve Handelsman, senior national White House and Capitol Hill correspondent for NBC News, to admit that he misrepresented Paul Ryan's Medicare plan during the ...
Holocaust denial is dead, but no one knows it. Worse, it appears as though no one wants to know. Not the media, not Jews, and especially not Jew-haters. But it's true. Denial has gone the way of the woolly mammoth. It exists these days as a bogeyman, a bugbear, an illusion in the minds of hardcore ...
