Election 2016: Chicks v. Dicks
Should being a rapist disqualify a man from the nation’s highest office? What if he merely says mean things about chicks? From what I’ve been told, this is supposed to be important"possibly the most ...
Should being a rapist disqualify a man from the nation’s highest office? What if he merely says mean things about chicks? From what I’ve been told, this is supposed to be important"possibly the most ...
All hell broke loose this month in the halls of academia. Medievalism, a field normally clean and cloistered, was rocked to its very foundations by the knowledge that one of its foremost members is a heretic. A quick and ...
Call me naïve, but the left's coarse brutishness still shocks me. The only thing that shocks me more is the right's suicidal cowardice. Here’s a sample of the first. The topic is CPAC, last weekend’s ...
Her name was Nari and she was the tallest Korean girl I’d ever seen. Six foot, at least. It was 1996 and we were on our second date when she started talking politics. Naturally, I assumed she’d be leftist. She was a ...
Well, first of all, hummina hummina! Having some twentysomething bouncing around your house in a French maid's costume is a great reward for being wealthy enough to hire help. Just kidding. If you can"t handle having a ...
Concerned mainly with the lives of working people, the Old Left, despite its unrealistic expectations, was still fairly grounded in reality. The New Left, by contrast, is characterized by delusional beliefs, the gospel of ...
On Friday at high noon, I saw a matinee of the feverishly hyped film Joker at a megaplex in rural Georgia on the first day of its official release. As we handed our tickets to the small, doughy, middle-aged female theater ...
A man whose reputation rivals that of the Clintons" for dishonesty and lies recently claimed overhearing a conversation by a gangster confirming that Bobby Riggs had thrown his match against Billie Jean King in the ...
Sure, the Irish are a little slow, but it took them longer than you’d think to leap onto the “genocide” bandwagon (or should that be “cattle car”?). Recently released in paperback, historian ...
A few columns ago I mentioned in passing that the Mrs. and I had been watching Breaking Bad. This brought some inquiries about whether we got to the end of it, and what I thought. Here are the answers. Yes, we got to the ...
Ellen DeGeneres was born with this face, and that’s the plain truth. If you think there’s any more nuanced or complicated reason beyond that for why she “became” a lesbian, I strongly beg to differ. She was “born ...
Can racial gaps in cognitive skills narrow? Possibly. After all, we have seen a number of historic examples of ethnicities pulling ahead of their neighbors by doing things smarter after they came to enthusiastically ...
Why do we still read Henry Louis Mencken? He was mostly a columnist, and columns are usually forgotten the day after they are published. One of the main reasons we still read Mencken is that he was enormously funny. The ...
I hate when a famous junkie dies and we get empty gestures like, “We just lost a legend the likes of which we will never see again.” Why not say, “That cute English girl who became the personification of a walking ...
Another week, another comedian prosecuted for rape in the courts of social media. This time it's even more extreme because a comedian who dared question the witch hunt is also being pilloried. I obviously don"t have a ...
It has been a fun week for everybody (except Hillary Clinton) since my last column began by asking: If Donald Trump were as bad as she says, shouldn"t Hillary drop out so a better candidate could beat him? After ...
I was slow on the uptake in understanding Chinese communism's awfulness. I"d been a lefty in my student days without knowing anything much about China. Toward the end of those days, female Chinese author Han Suyin ...
"What we care about is permanent protection, dignity, and respect," blurted out Alex Uematsu of the pro-illegal group Cosecha Movement on Tucker Carlson Tonight. "I"m for those things too," Tucker ...
The ongoing Oroville Dam crisis has received modest national attention, in part because the press hasn"t figured out how to blame it on Trump. Moreover, attributing the surfeit of water to global warming, the only other ...
Yeah, voter fraud is real. Yeah, Democrats excel at it. But the current obsession on the right with voter fraud (genuine and imagined) carries with it the potential to do far more damage long-term than the fraud itself. ...
Harris, W. C. Slouching Towards Gaytheism: Christianity and Queer Survival in America. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2014. 277pp. W. C. Harris is a radical gay activist and Professor of Queer Studies and ...
I rarely show much interest in Canadian politics. Truth be told, I think of Canadians as the friendly, quiet neighbors who keep their front lawn neatly manicured and their business to themselves. Not like those other ...
The government is shut down. Or at least something like 17 percent of it is. Big deal. They did the same thing when I was in high school. From what I remember"and spending my twenties in near-constant consumption of ...
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For some time now, I had been concerned that the growing urge of American elites toward bear-baiting"what I call World War G for its bizarre premise of resurrecting the Cold War over, of all things, gay marriage"was ...
