"I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: ‘Try being rich first,’" Bill Murray once said. "There’s not much downside to being rich….But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job." I know celebrities in the same way a sound ...
When William McGowan finished his award-winning book Coloring the News: How Political Correctness Has Corrupted American Journalism, the New York Times Book Review refused to review it. When pushed for a reason, then-editor Charles "Chip" McGrath asked, "Is this newspaper...the best ...
It used to be a big deal to have a college education. Back in 1960, about 8% of the population had one, and this chosen few deserved their popularity in the job market. The baby boomers decided this was unfair, so when they seized control of education in the 70s and 80s, they removed all the hard ...
Two months after the second WTC tower collapsed, George W. Bush started the Transportation Security Administration. A month later, some British douchebag who called himself "Abdel Rahim" but was born Richard Reid tried to blow up his heel. Now we all have to get down on our hands and knees ...
Seminal punk legend Ari Up just died. She sang for The Slits, had dreadlocks down to the floor, and is credited for helping put women on the punk map. She also followed the inexplicably hip Rastafarian religion, so when she was first diagnosed with breast cancer, she refused a mastectomy. This is ...
In Irshad Manji's book The Trouble With Islam, she blames a random group of desert fanatics for hijacking Muslim culture and taking it from an intellectual religion of peace to a closed-minded religion of war. Her hypothesis is pretty solid, but you can"t help thinking, "Why was their ...
America's midterm elections are on Tuesday, but they"ve already voted for their favorite news network, and it sure as hell ain"t the Microsoft/National Broadcasting Company. Have you seen their latest advertising campaign? How could you not? It's the biggest campaign in the network's ...
The recent study that showed atheists know more about religion than believers says tomes about the whole debate. Christians aren"t in it for the details. They"re in it for the good vibes. So why, pray tell, is a mammoth intellectual such as Christopher Hitchens wasting his last days ...
UCLA recently hosted a panel to discuss youth culture, and as "one of hipsterdom's primary architects," I was asked to come along. I showed up late for the event wearing nothing but a pair of pants and holding a bottle of beer, treating the whole scene like the cafeteria in Animal House, ...
The left isn"t good at many things, but they are Iron Chefs at the art of being embarrassing. They are so skilled at it, they take it beyond cringe into actual "douche chills" that send goose pimples up your arms and across your scalp. It's surprising, really. You"d think rolling ...
