Drunks Gone Wild
The PC suppression of heretical thinking seemingly grows stronger by the day. Innocuous comments and the "wrong" scientific research findings are now often taboo. Not even Harvard’s president or the Nobel ...
The PC suppression of heretical thinking seemingly grows stronger by the day. Innocuous comments and the "wrong" scientific research findings are now often taboo. Not even Harvard’s president or the Nobel ...
Every time a liberal sees someone behaving badly they sigh and say, "They just need education," but the solution to America's problems is less education, not more. If we got over this myth that everyone needs infinite ...
The kids today are often accused of being mindless consumers, but I don"t see it. They get their clothes secondhand, they steal their music, and they opt for skateboards and track bikes instead of cars. They get criticized ...
I hate billionaires. I loathe, disdain, and want to throw them in a wood chipper; take your pick, I can"t stand to be in a room with them. Millionaires are a different story. Their wealth is either inherited and has been ...
PORTO HELI—I am standing on the deck of a 100-foot schooner that was built in Normandy in 1931 by Gerald and Sara Murphy, the golden American couple who invented the south of France as a summer playground and were in the ...
So where are we with this democracy business? Last time I brought it up I left you with Robert A. Heinlein's time traveler: "How were things when you left? Especially, how is the United States getting along with its Noble ...
TV actress Leah Remini renounced Scientology last week. I assume she's looking back on the past decade and wondering what she was thinking. I know how she feels. I was also a member of a cult. It's called liberal arts. ...
Oops, I did it again. I’m so out of touch with the zeitgeist, I’m always honestly surprised when something I write stirs people up. “You’ve done it again!” chortled Alan Colmes after introducing ...
Aldous Huxley's 1932 dystopian novel Brave New World depicts an ideal pleasure drug, a hangover-free tranquilizer called soma that the totalitarian government freely distributed daily. The opiate-like drug dulled the senses ...
The long lazy summer is upon us, and as I walk the Swiss hills below the mountain ranges my thoughts are always of the past. I think of long hot summers of long ago: girls in their pretty dresses and my father in his whites ...
There’s been more than the usual amount. Some reflections. Zimmerman. “It’s hard to find a sympathetic character in the entire saga,” opined our editors about the Zimmerman trial. Oh, I don’t ...
Dear Gato, The meeting went well. The remake business is thriving. It makes superb financial sense. I never thought I"d say that. Then again, I never, ever thought I"d buy a condo in Rosarito. A high-rise apartment ...
My friend Hugh Dancy came to London this week while on a break before filming a series about that least friendly of fictional characters, Thomas Harris’s serial killer Hannibal Lecter. One of Harris's characters calls ...
A first-round loser at Wimbledon this year will receive $35,000 for showing up even if he defaults before the first ball is struck. Back in 1957 I got close to 200 dollars for losing in the singles qualifying draw and getting ...