Well, that was an easy one. King Constantine of the Hellenes—that's the Greeks, for any of you who never got past fourth grade—celebrated his 70th birthday in his son's London mansion, and the setting as well as ...
I noticed a very pretty girl sitting not far from me on a bus ride of about 45 minutes last week. Soon after the bus departed, she took out her makeup and spent about thirty minutes making herself up. No great artist could ...
NEW YORK—About once every hundred years the French nation presents America with a monumental gift. In 1781 it was 29 warships, 3,200 sailors, and 4,500 soldiers who hooked up with George Washington at Yorktown and blasted ...
The totalitarian nightmare of a prophylactic society is blurred by the stampede of spring. After 52 days of harsh house arrest, last Monday bars and restaurants opened in half of Spain (the other half still awaits the ...
GSTAAD—“Mick Flick Invites you to the Roaring Twenties,” read the black-and-white invitation card. A flapper and a Rudolph Valentino type in white tie and tails flirted in the old-fashioned manner—she dreamlike, ...
"Jaw-jaw is better than war-war," is attributed, wrongly, say some historians, to Winston Churchill. Still, the words lately came to mind. While last week ended with a hopeful U.S.-Iranian prisoner exchange that was hailed ...
I"m not a great fan of Adam Sandler who always seems to be doing an impersonation of Jerry Lewis, whose shtick as a juvenile retard I had enjoyed until about the age of...mm...six? I saw Sandler last time in "50 ...
Readers often ask, “Dave, why you always pickin’ on the right?” Nick Land, a rather well-known bloke, commented back in January: “Cole’s basic, consistent thesis is that the Left is just way better at politics ...
January 2016. A hard landing for world markets and the world economy. Leading indicator the Baltic Dry Index, which measures the cost of chartering a cargo ship, fell to an all-time low last week. The cost of hiring a ...
The Week’s Most Classified, Sassified, and Gassified Headlines JUMPIN’ JOE FLASH, IT’S A GAS GAS GAS! Last week’s 2021 U.N. Climate Change Conference was held in Glasgow, but President Biden made it Gasgow. ...
Squatting. It’s so…European. Like the bidet, squatting as political theater never caught on in America. Lengthy “vigils” and “tent cities”—such as the Ottawa Peace Camp on Parliament Hill (1983-85) ...
RamZPaul is at it again! This time with his hilarious take on healthcare, gender issues and ...
In Britain, there are ghosts everywhere. Here in Italy, there are none. Our house is nevertheless infestata (haunted), according to my wife"not by ghosts but by demons. Apparently, the Devil and his cohorts are busy ...
The dinner party at an old friend’s house was as chic as it gets. Then a Trump insider asked, “Who is the American president who had an affair with a French president’s wife?” It was an easy one. And it’s been out ...
When a "recent convert to Islam" wants to go off and join the jihadis fighting in Trashcanistan, LET HIM ...
Bridesmaids, the first female buddy comedy from producer Judd Apatow (Knocked Up and countless others over the last half-decade), stars Kristen Wiig, that passive-aggressive skinny blonde on Saturday Night Live. It's been ...
Last week in New York City, career criminal Argenis Rivera punched a woman who was pushing her 2-year-old in a stroller, then began choking her, screaming that she was a "white bitch." He let go only to attack another woman ...
In Italy"which is the next eurozone domino to fall after Spain, Greece, and Portugal"things are bad and getting worse. The mood here is one of black pessimism and utter contempt for politicians. Italians simmer ...
Esquire magazine recently did a profile on AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka. There are enough half-truths, distortions, and flat-out lies in Trumka’s quotes to fill up an entire book with refutations. Trumka rattles on ...
Just after 10pm last Thursday, the BBC was allowed to broadcast the results of the exit poll it had been conducting outside voting stations during election day. Its conclusion that there would be a clear Conservative ...
Returning to England from France recently, I was immediately placed under quarantine, or house arrest, for two weeks, as if I harbored a dangerous contagion. I did not mind this much, for two reasons: the first being that, ...
One would have to be flea-brained to deny that if we had no hospitals, millions of us who are now alive would be dead. Then again, only a paramecium’s cerebrum would deny that a lot of us who are now dead would be alive, ...
The Week’s Most Creamy, Steamy, and I-Have-a-Dreamy Headlines SHRIMP ON THE KLAUS BARBIE In this week’s edition of “you can’t win fer losin’,” Australian whites tried to do the right thing for their people of ...
Don Juan Carlos has been one of the best kings in the history of Spain. His work was essential in bringing about democracy and the current Constitution peacefully in troubled times, during which both the people and the ...
