The Barnacle Racket
America and Western Europe sure have their priorities right, with newsworthy items blanketing newspapers and magazines while the airwaves reflect our culture. For example, it seems that the April cover of Vogue Magazine, ...
America and Western Europe sure have their priorities right, with newsworthy items blanketing newspapers and magazines while the airwaves reflect our culture. For example, it seems that the April cover of Vogue Magazine, ...
Economic historian Gregory Clark, a Glaswegian now at UC Davis, has been extending a main channel of British science into the 21st Century. His new book, The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility is ...
Catholic libertarian Jeffrey Tucker recently introduced us to the concept of "libertarian brutalism." The distilled version: Libertarianism is well and good, but can"t we do something to make sure people only use ...
“There is a gay mafia,” said Bill Maher, “if you cross them you do get whacked.” Maher, the host of HBO’s “Real Time,” was talking about the gay activists and their comrades who drove ...
The Week's Most Momentous, Horrendous, and Portentous Headlines THE WORLD's MOST HOMOPHOBIC WEB BROWSER The Pink Hydra has slain another Web titan. Although Brendan Eich is the creator of the ubiquitous programming language ...
The Week's Most Fallacious, Vexatious, and Ostentatious Headlines THE NOBLE CAMPAIGN TO FIGHT (SPECIFIC FORMS OF) RACIAL STEREOTYPING Who would have thought that you could take people of widely divergent racial and religious ...
Nothing is important or unimportant, but thinking makes it so. Nevertheless, other people's priorities infuriate us: We think them fools for worrying over trifles, while they disregard entirely what we think is of the greatest ...
William Goldman's fantasy tale The Princess Bride made famous the saying “never get involved in a land war in Asia” (it was purportedly advice General Douglas MacArthur gave to President John F. Kennedy regarding ...
The West used to send Bible-waving missionaries to Africa to try and pry open the natives" eyes to the truth. Now it sends scientists. US Secretary of State John Kerry has said he will dispatch scientific experts to ...
Though Malaysia Airlines flights have a tendency to get lost, American Airlines is infinitely reliable, and the business class on their new A319s feels like you"re sitting in God's vagina. Unfortunately, it also means you ...
If there is one thing Americans love even more than a revolution, it is a mystery. Hence, the news from from Ukraine this past week got shoved aside in favor of the baffling case of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Unfortunately, ...
I see I have once again made the Southern Poverty Law Center's Hatewatch Headlines. They link to RightWingWatch.org, who caught me hatefully spewing hateful hatefulness in an interview I gave to blogger Joseph ...
Last week saw the passing of two prominent figures on the extreme left wing of British politics: Tony Benn and Bob Crow. Politicians of all persuasions have made the inevitable polite tributes to their memory. They were ...
With murky foreign affairs much in the news, it’s worth trying to figure out how to think about the notion of “false flag” operations"would, say, a counterterrorism agency stage an act of terrorism to ...