Getting Wasted is Wasted on the Young

The kids today are often accused of being mindless consumers, but I don"€™t see it. They get their clothes secondhand, they steal their music, and they opt for skateboards and track bikes instead of cars. They get criticized for still living at home, but their parents"€™ generation diluted the ...

10 Secrets to Good Conversation

Last night, I dreamed I had been kidnapped by Chechen terrorists, whom I shot in the cock before jumping off a bridge. My wife doesn"€™t want to be bored with the details of that dream. I don"€™t even remember it very well. Your dreams are something only you find interesting, and even then ...

When Being a Rebel Was Hard Work

When I was a kid, being a rebel was hard work. You didn"€™t have the Internet spoon-feeding you the latest trends. You had to dig under rocks to find out what was happening. If you didn"€™t find a "€œscene,"€ you had to make your own. Back in the 1980s, minimum wage was still under $5. ...

Everything I Learned in College Was a Lie

TV actress Leah Remini renounced Scientology last week. I assume she's looking back on the past decade and wondering what she was thinking. I know how she feels. I was also a member of a cult. It's called liberal arts. Getting a BA in English lit and taking all the insane lefty electives that ...

Sweating the Small Stuff

One of the best things about living in the country is how little you care about "€œcity"€ issues such as the Peruvian Kraut who killed a gangster's son or a bunch of savages rioting halfway across the world. Here in upstate NY where nature's tranquility meets summer's heat, you sweat the small ...

James O'Keefe

Project Veritas: True Crime on the Front Line

James O’Keefe’s new book Breakthrough is a spine-tingling true-crime thriller about the quest for truth in the age of media obfuscation. I love reading Coulter and Mark Steyn, but they don’t get out much. O’Keefe and his organization Project Veritas are out there on the ...

Brooke Astor

A Sad Estate of Affairs

Today at 2:30PM, philanthropist Brooke Astor’s son Tony Marshall is expected to be sentenced to one to three years for...uh, I can’t seem to get a straight answer on what he did wrong. The New York Post acts as if his crime is pilfering his mother’s inheritance and abusing her, ...

Johnny Buffalo McInnes

10 Misconceptions I Had About Parenting Before I Became a Parent

It's easy to be arrogant about parenting before you become a parent. Here are some insane beliefs I had about parenting before I tried it. 1. I"€™LL NEVER WEAR A BABY BACKPACK I was so sure I would never wear one of those ridiculous baby holders that go on your chest, I bet another dad $100 that ...

10 Weird and Wonderful Things About Living Among Hasidic Jews

Unite the Beards is a new and remarkably naïve organization that wants to bring hipsters and Hasidic Jews together. They"€™re based here in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where the Hasidic community has made it very clear they hate hipsters way more than everybody else does. Before moving to this ...

The author in 1975

10 Problems With Having Immigrant Parents

I’m a middle-class child of immigrants. I’m told we were poor when my parents emigrated from Scotland to Canada in the 70s, but I don’t remember any of that. All I remember is a bucolic childhood where I was never in want for anything I needed. Everything I wanted, however, was ...