The Perils of Winning
"The whole worl" is in a state o" chassis," says a character in a Sean O"Casey play. By "chassis" he meant "chaos," but "chassis," though a malapropism, is more expressive, and seems ...
"The whole worl" is in a state o" chassis," says a character in a Sean O"Casey play. By "chassis" he meant "chaos," but "chassis," though a malapropism, is more expressive, and seems ...
The question of whether Britain should be in or out of the European Union might seem like a complex technical matter upon which people of goodwill might differ. But nationalism is now the worst idea of all time, because ...
The gift of political prophecy is certainly not mine, and I suspect that the best, most certain way of prophesying correctly is to prophesy often. That way one will, by laws of chance, sometimes be right. The human mind's ...
How do you feel about Muslims? Not good, eh? They"re different from you and me. They"re hostile, right? The enemy within? Scary. Thinking about Islam, I think also about Kipling. He is one of these writers you ...
After a contentious convention fight, former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson has emerged the presidential candidate of the Libertarian Party. As a successful two-term governor, he is far and away the most qualified LP ...
I"ve been pointing out for years that O.J. Simpson's 1994 white Bronco run for the Mexican border from his lawyer Robert Kardashian's house was a turning point in American cultural history, spawning the Kardashians, ...
The polls this morning (June 14) indicate that Brexit will win, and the United Kingdom will be on course to leave the E.U. It's depressing. The shrill intolerance and xenophobia of the Little Englanders have no appeal for me ...
In September 2004, for the crime of having a massively blocked sewer line under my property, I was condemned to the worst fate a creature of the L.A. Westside could face"I had to move to the Valley. Thank God it was only ...
The latest Muslim massacre has driven the mainstream media absolutely berserk with fear and loathing...but not, though, of the Muslim terrorist who murdered 49 Latino gays in Florida. Instead, the bad guy is Donald Trump for ...
Back in April, former Canadian Supreme Court justice Louise Arbour mocked Mark Steyn and Nigel Farage's "weird obsession with sex" during a debate on the refugee crisis, after both men dared to mention Muslim ...
The most feral and violent contingent of anti-Trump protestors appears to consist of unabashed Mexican supremacists falsely accusing Trump of being a white supremacist. They are so irreparably dim that they appear to believe ...
The Week’s Most Vile, Mercantile, and Senile Headlines ((((COMBATING ANTI-SEMITISM ONLINE))) The Anti-Defamation League is a wonderful and righteous organization that stands ever vigilant against the merest suggestion ...
Every year Joseph Haydn comes for a few days to the town in which I live when I"m in England. For about five days there are two concerts daily, and for me it is a great luxury to have a string quartet playing almost on my ...
Most of us can agree that Karl Marx got it wrong. It wasn"t only that the Revolution didn"t come in the advanced industrial and capitalist countries as he expected but in backward Tsarist Russia, which, despite rapid ...