The Week That Perished
The Week’s Most Lecherous, Treacherous, and Obstreperous Headlines PORTLAND MAYOR TO MOVE AWAY FROM PEACEFUL PROTESTORS WHO’VE BEEN TRYING TO SET HIS CONDO ON FIRE Ted Wheeler looks like the type of guy who’d own a ...
The Week’s Most Lecherous, Treacherous, and Obstreperous Headlines PORTLAND MAYOR TO MOVE AWAY FROM PEACEFUL PROTESTORS WHO’VE BEEN TRYING TO SET HIS CONDO ON FIRE Ted Wheeler looks like the type of guy who’d own a ...
The Week’s Most Boorish, Whorish, and Moorish Headlines NOT-SO-YOUNG TURDS If farts had a face, they would look like Cenk Uygur. The aging Turk’s name is pronounced “Chenk Yoogur,” but if you’re the type whose ...
The Week's Most Dissonant, Insolent, and Ignorant Headlines ACTOR MATT DAMON CHASTISED FOR NOT REALIZING THAT HIS WHITENESS IS PROBLEMATIC Actor Matt Damon is best known for being the exceedingly liberal and highly ...
The bells are ringing, the bells are ringing, ding-dong, ding-dong. The cows are down from up high, where they’ve been grazing since spring. From my window I look at them and they stare back. I love hearing cowbells, day ...
The Week’s Most Foolish, Ghoulish, and Mulish Headlines PUTIN SAYS LIBERALISM IS OBSOLETE There is absolutely no debate that Vladimir Putin is one of the world’s sexiest men, with not only a net worth that dwarfs that ...
It was an accident. Then again, so was Chappaquiddick. No, Canada's Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau didn"t kill anybody. Dammit. Because, what with his majority parliament, nothing less than a murder charge ...
One of life’s safest bets is that following a visit by a Japanese premier to the Yasukuni Shrine, which honors the nation’s war dead, a lot of Chinese mega-crooks and inheritors of the greatest murderer of all ...
When I was still practicing as a doctor I believed, always mistakenly, that I had now heard every variety of human folly. However, even the dullest person can be highly original in the art of self-destruction, which is ...
As a science geek from way back"Andrade and Huxley were favorite childhood companions"I try to keep tabs on that side of things. This can be disheartening. To quote from that intergalactic bestseller We Are Doomed: ...
Every company"no matter how trendy or cool, no matter how many Goth girls on rollerskates they employ, no matter how many simpering genius autistics in silver pants they have on the payroll"every company eventually ...
The Week’s Most Tingling, Mingling, and Kris Kringling Headlines DODDER KNOWS BEST Wearing his finest Christmas sweater, Joe Biden sits in his comfy recliner by a roaring fireplace. The family dog brings him his pipe and ...
People are afraid of Ebola, and they have a right to be"but they also need to understand it. Ebola is a highly dangerous viral infection, killing more than half of those infected. The death rate is higher than that ...
The cultural levelers lost a formidable foe this week, the literary critic Harold Bloom dying on Monday at 89 years old. Bloom was still teaching at Yale, where he had spent a distinguished half-century. His was not, ...
Of all the millions of ways to be an asshole, the status quo regards "racism" as the most alarming. Put on your X-ray specs and you’ll see the contagion everywhere. According to a recent study, 10,000 ...
The struggles of even the best-connected California celebrities to nail down every last one of the permits they need to build on their own property helps demonstrate why differences in topography drive Californians toward ...
Predictions are in the air, or at least in the dwindling little pocket of air from which I breathe, down here in my diving bell a thousand feet beneath the surface of Liberalism Ocean. Nassim Taleb, the Black Swan bloke, ...
To chase away the naggingly dispiriting thought that one is nothing more than a pawn, a mere slave to the financial-governmental managerial class, it is comforting every once in a while to at least pretend your vote has an ...
Last week I wrote about how the Tennessee Board of Judicial Conduct, following a review by an investigative panel, declared that I’m not a Holocaust denier. After the column posted, a half-dozen old friends peckered their ...
I don’t live by a lot of rules (“socks first, then shoes” is one I find helpful. You’re welcome). But here’s a rule I appreciate more as I get older: Stupid and crazy are traits best avoided. I can hear you ...
Steve Jobs, the superbly theatrical film about the Apple cofounder's turbulent mid-career arc, opened in Los Angeles and New York over the weekend to the best per-theater grosses since American Sniper. It looks as if it ...
The millennial Master of the Universe Social Media is taking a stand for veritas in journalism. His personal playground known as Facebook just announced it will no longer allow fake news sites to use its extended ad ...
Clint Eastwood’s biopic J. Edgar, with Leonardo DiCaprio as the Washington bureaucrat who ran the FBI and its predecessor from 1924 to his death in early 1972, provides an intriguing data point for tracking the ...
Kanye West made a lot of black people unhappy last week, and for that he deserves a cookie. In a modern remake of 1970’s infamous Elvis/Nixon summit, the shamelessly hyperactive hip-hop mogul visited Donald Trump in ...
The Week’s Most Unreliable, Unverifiable, and Unjustifiable Headlines JOURNALISTS PUT THEIR MONEY ON CLINTON Despite reams of evidence that American media is tilted heavily leftward, everyone knows that the idea of ...
