In sporting terms, America is very much an island with its own quaint customs. For this reason the etymologically unsound American version of "football""the world's most popular sport"mainly consists of ...
I’m gonna start by talking about the porn girl I lived with, then segue into the actors’ strike and end on politics. Yep, ol’ Dave will deftly manipulate three balls at once. So, speaking of porn... For me, two ...
GSTAAD—I cross-country ski the old-fashioned way, not skating but on machine-made narrow tracks. It is known to be the best exercise in the world, both upper and lower body getting the maximum workout as one churns along ...
Ms Lynch is a sort of twofer version of Eric Holder " another Social Justice Warrior from the Ivy League affirmative action ...
"In the Bengal Club at Calcutta they don"t allow dogs or Indians, but in the Yacht Club at Bombay, they don"t mind dogs; it's only Indians they don"t allow." "W. Somerset Maugham What the outside ...
There have always been hints that the worldview of "The X-Files" is far closer to paleoconservatism than is generally found in anything emanating from Hollywood. Sam Francis, a avid "X-Files" fan had always been put off by ...
You probably think the job of a reporter is to report news. How old-fashioned, cis-gendered, white supremacist of you! That's not it at all, certainly not at the august New York Times. Instead, a reporter's mission is to ...
“The entry into force of the U.S.-Korea trade agreement on March 15, 2012, means countless new opportunities for U.S. exporters to sell more made-in-America goods, services and agricultural products to Korean ...
Dear Gato: So I made the crossing over to Panama just fine, at least from the legal point of view. Despite the guards’ Rottweiler expressions, they can’t even be bothered to swat a mosquito in that humidity, ...
The great reactionary novelist Evelyn Waugh owned a country house in Combe Florey, southwest England. Among the furnishings was a set of three paintings under the collective title The Pleasures of Travel: 1751, 1851, ...
In another Very Florida story, a woman with a colorful criminal history has spent the last year collecting media accolades and a half-million dollars in donations by accusing the Republican governor of Florida, Ron ...
One of the unintended consequences of teachers using COVID to refuse to do their jobs in 2020 is that their students suddenly had to take classes remotely -- within earshot of Dad. A mother at a fancy New York City private ...
Kall me krazy, but I love the Kardashians. This is Kardashian Week if there ever was one. The fab family just signed a $40-million deal with E! for three more years of their reality show Keeping Up With the ...
The Week’s Most Caddying, Daddying, and St. Paddying Headlines FAUXPRAH’S BOOK CLUB Leftist author Laurie Penny is half-Irish, half-Jewish. How can you spot an Irish Jew? She thinks the IRA is a retirement account. ...
Here’s a little secret regarding opinion pieces: It’s all about “angle.” You look at something in the news, and you find an interesting angle for your readers. Case in point: the recent L.A. freeway fire that ...
The most enduring superheroes"Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Captain America among them"were all born in Lower East Side at some point between 1938-1944. Their creators were almost entirely first-generation Jews. ...
"Once that picture with the blackface and the Klansman came out, there is no way you can continue to be the governor of the commonwealth of Virginia." So decreed Terry McAuliffe, insisting on the death penalty with no ...
I’ve often written about Israel, and not always in a flattering light. After president Rabin was assassinated (his wife once told me that she preferred Arafat to Netanyahu any day), I lost all hope that reason, wisdom, ...
While reading a new study by Lukas Althoff and Hugo Reichardt, Jim Crow and Black Economic Progress After Slavery, about how it is better for African Americans today to be descended from ancestors who were freed before ...
In Basic Training, we were given a set of civilian clothes which had to be worn whenever we weren"t in uniform. It was another uniform to make us all the same, they said. The barber's clipper performed the same ...
Hitlers, I get Hitlers. Lotsa hubbub following last week’s column about the far-right’s Hitler fetish. Nick Fuentes stopped pleasuring himself to videos of Ali Alexander curb-crawling a Boy Scout fun-run just long ...
Here’s a fun fact: My cousin was one of the attorneys who got silicone breast implants banned in the 1990s. As regular readers know, my biological dad killed Elvis. So my bloodline took away Elvis and boobies. That’s ...
Can a septuagenarian socialist who just survived a heart attack and would be 80 years old in his first year in office be elected president of the United States? It's hard to believe but not impossible. As of today, Bernie ...
The Russian writer V.G. Korolenko (a kind of sub-Chekhov) once wrote that Man is made for happiness as a bird for flight: To which I can only say that this has not been my observation, or even experience, of life. If Man is ...
