The Week That Perished
The Week’s Most Perming, Squirming, and Midterming Headlines GUNFIGHT AT THE O.G. CORRAL In The Little Mermaid, Hans Christian Andersen described Ariel as “white,” with “pale skin” and “blue eyes.” The ...
The Week’s Most Perming, Squirming, and Midterming Headlines GUNFIGHT AT THE O.G. CORRAL In The Little Mermaid, Hans Christian Andersen described Ariel as “white,” with “pale skin” and “blue eyes.” The ...
A busy ten days—nights, rather—with some heroic drinking thrown in for good measure. Hangovers discriminate against the old nowadays, but no one is doing anything about it, not in Washington, not in New York, not in ...
Hey, guys, I found out the true facts in the Breonna Taylor case! Remember the "botched raid" (New York Times) on Breonna's apartment in Louisville, Kentucky, last March, when police officers killed this innocent black ...
In Tom Stoppard's 1982 drama The Real Thing, a middle-aged playwright and his daughter discuss Elvis Presley's death: Henry: I never went for him much. "All Shook Up" was the last good one. However, I suppose ...
The editorial standards at The Atlantic, as I demonstrated a little while back in my essay for New English Review on contributing editor Ian Bogost, are certainly exceptional. On the first day of spring (I leave it to the ...
One tiny girl in one tiny part of Great Britain may have just struck a major blow against the Tranny Orthodoxy that threatens to drive all of that nation’s children ...
Even by modern, cataclysmically hysterical standards, the postelection histrionics by the losers take the proverbial cake. Poor Graydon Carter, the Vanity Fair honcho. He wrote things about the Donald I would not dream of ...
I had a short chat with BBC Radio concerning the actor Jack Nicholson, whom I knew slightly during the 70s and 80s. Alas, it had to do with age, his and mine, 77 and 78 respectively. No, the man on the other side of the ...
The Week’s Most Sclerotic, Neurotic, and Robotic Headlines DERSHOWITZ: LEAVE DONALD ALONE! Celebrity lawyer Alan Dershowitz—who, to our knowledge, has never been employed as a male model—pulled a Chris Crocker ...
I wonder if any liberals are re-thinking their insistence that the Boy Scouts allow gay men to take 13-year-old boys on overnight camping trips. HEADLINE: Boy Scouts Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy in the Face of Thousands of ...
As February ends, so too does Black History Month (BHM)—although, as is often noted, this “month” now appears to last all year long. At least in the U.S., you have some genuinely historically significant black people ...
Prostitution is the world’s oldest profession, and last Wednesday police in Phoenix arrested what appear to be some of the world’s oldest prostitutes. Judging from their mug shots, they may rank among the world’s ...
Amid the din of social, political, and terroristic unrest that takes up so much of the major media’s (and the Internet’s) time, there occasionally surfaces a story of cosmic importance. Earlier this year, one ...
The Week's Most Septic, Dyspeptic, and Narcoleptic Headlines GROUNDBREAKING NEW RESEARCH ON OBESITY If you"re a black woman who eats tons of hamburgers and guzzles gallons of sugary soft drinks, you may want to pay ...
After the unfortunate death in the New York subway of mentally ill homeless guy Jordan Neely, I pointed out that much of the stress imposed upon daily life in New York by violent, free-range lunatics like Neely, who had ...
With institutional momentum for awarding vast reparations to African-Americans accelerating, it occurs to me that during the pandemic and racial reckoning we have already run a massive national experiment in what the likely ...
The stink of bullshittery clinging to the so-called "gay sweater" first enters the nostrils upon reading that it traces its origins back to "a lighthearted conversation" at an Ottawa workplace. For one ...
The Week's Most Arthritic, Parasitic, and Anti-Semitic Headlines ERIC GARNER's DEATH: WHO's RESPONSIBLE? Can one be faulted for thinking that black Americans need to find some better heroes around which to rally? In the ...
What was that quote about London and being tired of life? Or that flickering ecstasy of a long-ago memory of being drunk at dawn and watching people going to work? Surely not at my age and in the year 2013, but there you ...
As everyone who has ever joined a club knows, Pugs is the world’s most exclusive one, its 19 members varying from German nobility and Greek and Danish royalty to the British upper classes, Indian nobility, and American ...
The Duke of Marlborough gave a toast last week that brought the house down during a Turning Point dinner for those of us resolved to end the threat of cultural Marxism once and for all. (Much easier said than done—the ...
The Week's Dreamiest, Steamiest, and Seamiest Headlines M.L.K. RETURNS TO THE MOUNTAINTOP The Right Reverend Holy Martin Lucifer King is a huge inspiration to rainbow-colored children across this great planet, and the ...
The umpteenth remake of Little Women, Louisa May Alcott’s witty 1868 girls’ novel about growing up in Concord, Massachusetts, during the Civil War, is directed by Greta Gerwig and stars her alter ego, the lovely Irish ...
After the massacre of five Dallas cops, during a protest of police shootings of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota, President Obama said, “America is not as divided as some have suggested.” Former D.C. Police ...