Is a baseball mitt a toy? How about a trampoline? Is a goose a farm animal or a wild animal? Is chess-playing an art or a science? Do I shelve a novel about China with my fiction books or my China books? These are problems ...
Raping a child can land you in prison for life"unless you"ve made some cool movies, in which case the penalty is a lifetime achievement award. In France, where they “Thank Heaven for Little Girls,” ...
Last night, I dreamed I had been kidnapped by Chechen terrorists, whom I shot in the cock before jumping off a bridge. My wife doesn"t want to be bored with the details of that dream. I don"t even remember it very ...
We are constantly told that the GOP is doomed because it’s the party of straight white men. That may well be true, but few have asked: How can the diverse Democrats hold together? How can special interests as ...
October 2014 marks the 20th anniversary of the publication of the most hated book in the history of the social sciences, the 845-page The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life by Charles Murray and ...
On Saturday we held a rally in Berkeley to promote free speech. We knew there would be trouble so we came prepared to fight. We sang, "Glory, glory, hallelujah!" They played Public Enemy. We were disarmed by the ...
"I"ve been married to a capitalist, a communist, and a fascist, and neither [sic] would take out the garbage," Zsa Zsa Gabor supposedly said. In the pre-Internet era, I"d attributed a shorter version of ...
A new study from Georgetown University reveals that if the student bodies of the 200 most selective American colleges were enrolled solely on objective SAT or ACT aptitude test scores, their student bodies would increase ...
Political correctness, that great misguided ennobler/enabler of disgruntled losers and embittered misfits, may have helped pave the way for Bradley Manning and Nidal Hasan to achieve infamy. Before his decision to start ...
What can we learn from the media and government frenzy to railroad George Zimmerman, a campaign that continues even after his acquittal, with the Obama Administration now threatening hate-crime charges? First, the KKKrazy ...
Well, that is damned inconvenient. A state-of-the-art pedestrian bridge hailed as the inevitably wondrous result of diversity in engineering has collapsed within days of being paraded before the media. Did I say ...
The governments of Europe are confronting an epochal choice in the Mediterranean. Do they allow Europe to remain on course toward inundation by the African population explosion, inevitably turning Florence into Ferguson and ...
Here is a thing that happened in the Civil War. If you know your Civil War minutiae, it"ll be familiar to you, in which case I beg your pardon. I can"t resist a good story. A young lieutenant of the war angered his ...
Reading recently a monograph about the lives of heroin addicts in preparation for an article about addiction I had been commissioned to write, I came across a couple of comparatively new locutions that irritate me: sex work ...
The Graduate, the December 1967 box-office smash starring newcomer Dustin Hoffman as Benjamin Braddock and Anne Bancroft as Mrs. Robinson, is often recounted as a major volley in the history of the Generation Gap. Made on a ...
Recent incidents of Muslims behaving badly"such as the butchering of British soldier Lee Rigby by two Islamic-convert African immigrants, the riots in Stockholm, and the never-ending revelations about numerous Pakistani ...
When France decided to slit its own throat last week and elect the childless Emmanuel Macron as its president over the bustier and more fecund Marine Le Pen, it made him the ninth current European leader whose loins have ...
Sen. Kamala Harris leaped upward in the polls by denouncing Joe Biden for opposing racial school busing in the 1970s, citing how she was bused in Berkeley as a child. Harris has since doubled down on busing, stating: I ...
In 2019, two books demanding more censorship have each devoted a chapter to portraying me as a historic villain. In the first, Angela ...
I don"t know about you, but I"m coming down with a nasty case of Riot Fatigue. The latest example of roaming, drooling morons looting and smashing and burning in the name of some dim notion of "justice" ...
Laci Green is an incredibly sexy social justice warrior who had dozens of feminist-ally suitors until some alt-right asshole rolled up in his Gran Torino and said, "Get in, bitch. We"re making sex great again," ...
While filling my car with gasoline possibly derived from Middle Eastern oil, I spotted a billboard for a local clothing store called US ARABIA. Though the sign's head-swaddled male and female models appear to be Caucasian, ...
A Marxist professor at Syracuse University just called on lunatics to come and kill us. "We almost have the fascists on the run," she said from her Twitter account, @danaleecloud, "come down to the federal ...
A rally in Virginia on Saturday intended to “Unite the Right” ended in chaos and bloodshed. The way events unfolded suggests that the main battle plan for the powers that be in America has nothing to do with illusions ...
