The Week That Perished
The Week's Most Panderous, Scandalous, and Slanderous Headlines ENGLAND's NEXT JEWISH PRIME MINISTER? Ed Miliband's parents were Jewish refugees to England who"d escaped Nazi persecution. And now, less than a week ...
The Week's Most Panderous, Scandalous, and Slanderous Headlines ENGLAND's NEXT JEWISH PRIME MINISTER? Ed Miliband's parents were Jewish refugees to England who"d escaped Nazi persecution. And now, less than a week ...
Why is it that summers used to last so much longer back then? School would be out in early June and by the time the horrid month of September rolled around, it seemed as if three years had passed. What fun it was to be ...
The Week's Most Dismal, Abysmal, and Baptismal Headlines WHY YOU SHOULDN"T REFER TO PEOPLE OF COLOR AS "COLORED PEOPLE" Grammatically, "colored people" is undeniably more economical than "people of ...
The death of the richest woman on the planet, as the tabloids dubbed Liliane Bettencourt, brought back some vivid memories, mainly of the gigolos I’ve known and their disgraceful pursuit of the fairer sex for the root of ...
Speaking at Mount Rushmore on Friday, and from the White House lawn on Saturday, July 4, Donald Trump recast the presidential race. He seized upon an issue that can turn his fortunes around, and the wounded howls of the ...
I am not Charlie, nor will I ever be. Wearing a Je suis Charlie badge is one sure way of getting attention, but I will leave that to others. And another thing: Obscenity has no redeeming social value, and Charlie Hebdo was ...
Now, class, you will remember in this symposium's first installment that we dealt with the dry martini, the pink gin, and the bullshot, the proper cocktails which mark a gentleman (or lady, I suppose) as a person of ...
The new cultural revolution vandalizing the streets is completely misinformed and has the faint whiff of extremist fanaticism. Its aim is to divide and fracture Western society, where individualism was born, where there is ...
Police opened fire on a surging mob of angry mine workers on August 16th at South Africa's Marikana platinum mine. When the guns went quiet, 34 were dead and at least 78 wounded. This came a few days after the killing of ...
With the revelation by an intel community "whistleblower" that President Donald Trump, in a congratulatory call to the new president of Ukraine, pushed him repeatedly to investigate the Joe Biden family connection to ...
Last week, in her inimitably cornpone, hokey, chipper, toothy, gosh-darnit, you’re-darn-tootin’ manner, Sarah Palin slammed Michelle Obama's scheme to slim the nation's bloated quotient of disgustingly fat ...
The guilty flee when no man pursueth, says Proverbs, but it does not follow from this that the guilty do not flee when they are indeed pursued. The guilty also have a tendency to argue when they know that they are in the ...
“Second Term Begins With a Sweeping Agenda for Equality,” ran the eight-column banner in which The Washington Post captured the essence of Obama’s second inaugural. There he declared: “What binds ...
I can understand that American conservatives and libertarians are upset at Mr. Obama's reelection. It means another four years of government by someone who wants to make their country into a Third World dump. But my view as ...
What I take to be a very well-oiled revolving door has ejected Mr. Scaramucci from the White House before he had properly got in. I’m not, for the moment anyway, concerned with the rapidly changing cast list of the Trump ...
The Week's Most Bilious, Supercilious, and Punctilious Headlines COVER YOUR BALLS, GENTS: HILLARY CLINTON IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT A stern warning to the white males who comprise roughly 99.95687% of our readership: If you ...
Recently at a local college whose name I will not divulge, an act of "racial vandalism" occurred which the administration is naturally investigating. The college newspaper has devoted considerable front-page ...
Modern school shootings are an exceptionally abhorrent phenomenon that we got along just fine without for the first couple of centuries of U.S. history. So, it’s wholly reasonable to want them gone. It’s not like ...
LOS ANGELES—When you say, “Don’t worry about me, I’ll just jump on the subway” to someone in El Lay, you get one of the following responses: “Excuse me, would you repeat that?” “Oh, I’m sorry, I thought ...
In February 1989, Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa inciting the faithful to murder author Salman Rushdie for blasphemy. Within a few days, professional writers convened in London, New York, and elsewhere to discuss ...
The Week’s Most Strobic, Microbic, and Xenophobic Headlines RUSSIA DAMS THE BLACK SEA “In Russia, sushi eats you!” If a foreigner who knows nothing about the United States’ ethnic and racial makeup were to offer a ...
With revelation of the highly questionable narrative by football player Manti Te"o that he was "duped" into believing he had an online girlfriend, the nation has once again become aware of the questionable ...
By nominating Federal Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, Donald Trump kept his word, and more than that. Should she be confirmed, he will have made history. Even his enemies would have to concede that Trump ...
“There is no Republican Party. There’s a Trump party,” John Boehner told a Mackinac, Michigan, gathering of the GOP faithful last week. “The Republican Party is kind of taking a nap ...
