Should US-Saudi Alliance Be Saved?

Over the weekend Donald Trump warned of "severe punishment" if an investigation concludes that a Saudi hit team murdered Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Riyadh then ...

Jerry Lewis

Tears for a Clown

Slapstick is, at best, only loosely defined as comedy. If an unsupervised toddler in hysterics can do something to evoke laughter, more effort should be expected of a grown man. Therefore, I have never cared for the spastic ...

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Most Grueling, Drooling, and April-Fooling Headlines SLAPPY BLACK Once again, an onstage disaster has overshadowed the Best Picture win of a woke film. In 2017, the Warren Beatty/Faye Dunaway envelope mix-up ...

Having Trouble Maintaining an Election?

Ooh, that smell! Can"€™t you smell that smell? Pew! It's the latest report from the Pew Center on the States, and it concludes that America's voter-registration system stinks. Released on Tuesday, Pew's report, titled ...

Benjamin

Who Wants War With Iran?

Appearing alongside CIA Director David Petraeus before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last week, James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, said of Iran: “We don’t believe they’ve ...

Obama’s Republican Collaborators

The GOP swept to victory in November by declaring that this imperial presidency must be brought to heel, and President Obama’s illicit seizures of Congressional power must end. That was then. Now is now. This week, ...

The Flowering of Mediocrity

When someone is said to be lacking in ambition, it is usually meant as a criticism, as if people had a transcendent moral duty to be ambitious. How else but by ambition will mankind advance? I grant that ambition is ...

Tiger Juice

Baseball's two highest paid players, Alex Rodriguez and Manny Ramirez, have been revealed to be performance-enhancing drug cheaters over the last year, making golf seem like the last haven of non-mutant competitors. Yet, ...

They’re Replacing You, Black America

Whether true or not, the left has decided that black people are as easy to play as Donald Trump. While frantically replacing African Americans with immigrants, they announce: "Replacement" is a white supremacy theory! Pay ...

Fully Automatic Media

The tedium of the impeachment trial has at least allowed me to catch up on my reading. Apparently, there was a peaceful gun rights rally in Virginia last week that had the media in a panic. Today, I will explain how their ...

A Bright Future for Pessimists

It’s said that no news is good news, but the problem is that there’s plenty of news, and all of it’s awful. I scanned my memory banks to try and remember the last time I heard a news story that pleased me or gave me ...

Odeon of Herodes, Athens

Once More, the Mysterious Wound

I think back to my Greek childhood and longing for the once coziest and most romantic of cities overwhelms me. Actually it’s too painful to think back, all the blood spilled during the Communist uprising, the beautiful ...

Don Quixote And Sancho Panza by Louis Aquetin

Mute Inglorious Shakespeares

In Michael Lewis’ new biography of Sam Bankman-Fried, Going Infinite, Lewis quotes the accused cryptocurrency embezzler’s rationalist case against Shakespeare: I could go on and on about the failings of ...

Our Innocents Abroad?

Friday’s lead stories in The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal dealt with what both viewed as a national affront and outrage. Egyptian soldiers, said the Post, “stormed the offices” of three U.S. ...

Does Diversity Equal Adversity?

Now that the Supreme Court has finally ruled that affirmative action in college admissions violates the 14th Amendment’s “equal protection of the laws” clause, what will the Establishment come up with next to put its ...

Henry Kissinger

Henry Kissinger’s Fakepolitik

Henry Kissinger should emulate Old Marley's ghost, which "€œfloated out upon the bleak, dark night"€ from the chambers of Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge. It was a gentle, necessary departure from our world that allowed Scrooge ...

Thar’s Meth in Them Thar Hills

Two years ago Oak Ridge, TN housed the world's fastest supercomputer. Even better, my state took the #1 rank for meth-lab busts that year. Nothing says "€œvicarious achiever"€ like state pride, but those glory days ...

How Robots Push Our Buttons

Robot & Frank is a clever little sci-fi dramedy about a semi-senile old coot whose concerned son buys him a robot as a valet and minder. The film is well crafted and timely because robophobia is once again in fashion. ...

Anderson Cooper

Bye-Bye to Butch Broadcasters

The Andy Rooney era has ended. He gave his valedictory 60 Minutes appearance on October 2, 2011. When he began in the summer of 1978, I was preparing to enter college, Carter was president, and Johnny Carson was wildly ...

Too Many Champions

When I was a small boy I could name all of boxing's world champions, and I guess that anyone who followed the sport could do likewise. This was back in the immediate postwar years, and even people with little interest in ...

Lewis Hamilton

Mood Is a Rhythm

The world turns in fury, a global trend that is arming an urban guerrilla. In the valley of tears, being recognized as a victim is an aspiration to gain rights over another. This has allowed simple sexual, religious, or ...

The Spice of Death

The 107-year-old Variety publications have been sold to the Internet-based Penske Media Corporation. Weekly Variety, daily Variety, and Variety Broadway are all falling into the maw of the owner of Nikki Finke‘s ...


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