Elmosexual Panic
If only Romney had campaigned against Elmo instead of Big Bird. Then again, the sordid details of Sesame Street puppeteer Kevin Clash's alleged dalliances with four then-underage boys didn"t emerge until after the ...
If only Romney had campaigned against Elmo instead of Big Bird. Then again, the sordid details of Sesame Street puppeteer Kevin Clash's alleged dalliances with four then-underage boys didn"t emerge until after the ...
The Week's Most Bureaucratic, Problematic, and Symptomatic Headlines FEDS TO MONITOR ONLINE "HATE SPEECH" If you ever doubted that the concept of "hate speech" was designed primarily to prevent any ...
Although France is on the same downward slide as Britain, you can tell that it has not yet descended quite as far because it did not win as many medals in the Olympic Games as Britain. Nevertheless, it won more such medals ...
An old Australian judge of my acquaintance, an art collector and general connoisseur, now dead, alas, had no interest in cars and used to answer inquiries as to what car he possessed in the most lapidary fashion: "A ...
Although the adjective "fascist," as George Orwell pointed out during and right after World War II, was a slur applied to "those we don"t like," the indiscriminate use of the "F" word seems more ...
The Week’s Maddest, Baddest, and Saddest Headlines ZIMBABWE PROMISES WHITE FARMERS COMPENSATION, THEN ASKS THEM TO RAISE THE FUNDS Zimbabwe—formerly the Breadbasket of Africa and now better known as Africa’s ...
The most surprising news story in recent weeks was that of Emma West, a young lady of the type sneeringly referred to as “chav” (white working class, not fully trained in multicultural etiquette) who fearlessly shouted ...
I come bearing great tidings to the women of the world: You no longer have any problems. Genital mutilation has been wiped out, rape is a thing of the past, and the price of chocolate has dropped to record lows. That’s ...
The Week's Most Compulsive, Convulsive, and Repulsive Headlines ALL THE DUMB YOUNG SOCIALISTS Forty-two percent of the so-called "millennials""that socially conscious and factually stunted cohort of Americans ...
It’s happening again. Once more I begin to like a new TV show and it is canceled in a single season. My affliction goes back to the mid-70s, when Kolchak: The Night Stalker and Ellery Queen bit the dust in rapid ...
Erstwhile pop singer Aaron Carter and his wizened face recently made the plunge every onetime celebrity makes at least once in his life. The younger brother of Backstreet Boy Nick Carter filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy on ...
Why bother with something true to life, dignified, and classy when you can create something untrue, cheap, and vulgar? While surfing through some channels looking for a black-and-white oldie, I watched something that I ...
Whether it is more painful to be justly than unjustly accused is a difficult question to answer: sometimes I think the one, sometimes the other. Likewise, it is uncertain whether success or failure in life, wealth or ...
I quipped in a column here a few months ago that the Pacific island nation of Niue may be the world’s first country to be completely emptied out by emigration. As you were. I have a new candidate for the title: Somalia. ...
In his op-ed in The Washington Post, Chris Grayling, leader of the House of Commons, made the case for British withdrawal from the European Union—in terms Americans can understand. Would you accept, Grayling asks, an ...
Sicily – Under the watchful eye of Mount Etna the storied past of the island lies parched and yellowish, but as one gets nearer to the fiery growling giant the air turns cool, the sun glistening against black volcanic ...
The Week’s Most Stammering, Hammering, and Flimflammering Headlines DENNIS THE FELONIOUS MENACE A few weeks ago, The New York Times ran an op-ed advocating for the national voting age to be lowered to “zero.” From ...
Jack Chick is dead, alas, and along with him any hope for new additions to his corpus of strangely endearing Evangelical scare tracts. Even those who aren"t aficionados might have encountered Chick's work (known as ...
In WWII and the Cold War, we faced enemies the caliber of Wernher von Braun and Andrei Sakharov. In the War on Terror, however, a strikingly large fraction of Muslim would-be terrorists, such as the recent Underpants Bomber ...
GSTAAD—“On ne touché pas une femme, meme avec une fleur,” says an old French dictum, one not always adhered to in the land of cheese or anywhere else, for that matter. However hackneyed it may ...
The Fifth French Republic was created in 1959 by General de Gaulle, and its constitution was devised to give France strong and stable government. It has now lasted longer than any regime since the Revolution of 1789, except ...
However Donald Trump came upon the foreign policy views he espoused, they were as crucial to his election as his views on trade and the border. Yet those views are hemlock to the GOP foreign policy elite and the liberal ...
On August 2, 2014, the Obama Administration allowed the first of two American health care workers who had contracted the Ebola virus back into the U.S. There is no logical reason to have done this; in fact its illogic is ...
There are certain public figures upon whose face I cannot bear to look. They are not necessarily the very worst of such figures. For example, I don’t mind looking at, indeed I even derive a certain amusement from, the ...
