The Future of Girlification
Here's a clip from my read-it-and-weep folder. It showed up in a February 11th Washington Post article, headline: "College sexual assault prevention has unlikely model: U.S. service academies." Midshipmen"that ...
Here's a clip from my read-it-and-weep folder. It showed up in a February 11th Washington Post article, headline: "College sexual assault prevention has unlikely model: U.S. service academies." Midshipmen"that ...
If I could eradicate one sin from the world, I would free writers and journalists from our desire to make a heartfelt splash, and damn the facts. Exaggerated reporting in the service of a hunch is even worse if your hunch has ...
"Martin Luther toy becomes fastest selling Playmobil figurine of all time." Has anyone been keeping an eye on Germany lately? Because I think they"re getting even weirder than usual, and we all know what happened ...
I hate to start with a cliché, but Count Arnaud de Borchgrave d’Altena, who died in Washington, D.C., last week aged 88, was the last of the great foreign correspondents, with trench coat, suntan, title, and 17 wars under ...
Perhaps there will come a day when I look back with fondness on the dithering incompetence of Obama"when the stiff pomposity of his ersatz Luther King speechifying no longer brings a trace of vomit to my mouth. Yet, for ...
It is the tragic reality of my being that I"m forced to justify myself every time someone learns what I did in the past and what I"ve been thrust back into doing in the present. When I"m fortunate enough to be in a ...
Whether looseness of language is a consequence or a cause of looseness of thought I cannot say. No doubt it is sometimes the one and sometimes the other. Perhaps"to indulge in a little looseness of thought and language of ...
The real estate market is back in the news, although, not surprisingly, it's now the mirror image of last decade's excesses. Ten years ago the prices of exurban tract homes in the sand states of California, Arizona, Nevada, ...
¡Ay Chihuahua! According to the Daily Beast's resident Islamic apologist, it's not Muslims who are to blame for terror attacks on U.S. soil ... it's those damned Latinos! And to think: I hired my gardeners without an FBI ...
The Week's Most Ominous, Ponderous, and Neo-Communist Headlines LYIN" BRIAN WILLIAMS NBC, famous for deliberately editing George Zimmerman's 911 call to create the false impression that he targeted Trayvon Martin for ...
Seeing clips of that 22-minute video of the immolation of the Jordanian pilot, one wonders: Who would be drawn to the cause of these barbarians who perpetrated such an atrocity? While the video might firm up the faith of ...
As a serial entrepreneur, I"ve created and sold many companies over the years. From a media empire to an ad agency (we had quietly sold Rooster NY a year before it was shut down for transphobia) to some weird box that ...
A couple of years ago on this site I wondered "Why Isn"t Racism Cool?" Why, I asked, has the state ideology of the West not generated its antithesis, as historical trends are supposed to do? The Kultursmog of ...
With identity politics and their accompanying political correctness in the news (as usual), it's worth considering how similar human urges play out in the world of sports. If Congressional politics is notoriously show biz ...