Workers of the World, Goodbye

There was something pathetically nostalgic at the specter earlier this month of fast-food workers demanding compensation to the tune of $15 an hour for performing jobs that ...

More Stinkin”€™ Thinkin”€™ in the NBA

As you"€™ll recall, NBA team owner Donald Sterling was recently purged for being secretly taped objecting to his self-promoting mistress posting pictures online of the black ...

The Long March Through the Arcade

First they came to ruthlessly pillage the comic-book world, so I suppose it’s only natural"€”in their inimitably unnatural way"€”that the social-justice warriors would ...

Uptown, Manhattan

Before Flash

Back in the very early 60s there was an uninhabited islet off the west coast of Greece by the name of Skorpios. It was wild, with neglected olive groves, and its asking price was ...

The Birth of a Nation

Defending Film

This was a bad summer for movies at the American box office, with total gross down 22 percent from last year. Revenue was the lowest since 2006, suggesting that the recent ...

Facebook Is Not Watching You

Following every national crisis, the Internet serves as a community bulletin board where anyone feels free to tack on his inane beliefs. Regarding Michael Brown, millions of ...

How to Be Fired

So, it looks like I may have been fired from my own company, again. This time it was for not embracing (click "€œcontinue"€) the idea of turning your genitals inside out. ...

Here Comes the Mob (Again)!

ThoughtCatalog.com has had a crappy week. Many people are suddenly hearing about that upstart online magazine for the first time, on account of not one but two ...

Spare the Job, Wreck the Child

It's a cliché to bitch about how hard it was when you were their age, but Jesus Christ, do the kids today even know what sweat is? I had a relative send me his resume recently ...

Gawker Media: Hypocrites vs. Douchecanoes

In 2002, a failed British journalist named Nick Denton started Gawker, a bitchy gossip blog run out of his Manhattan apartment. Over 10 years later, Gawker and its sister ...

Satire Is Dead. Long Live Satire!

If you missed it, you missed out: one of the best comedy accounts in Twitter history (even better than @Vice_Is_Hip, which I long thought to be Gavin himself) has been ...

Thor Losers

Last week was a trifecta for Cultural Marxism in the comic-book world. Archie Andrews was shot to death trying to protect a gay senator, Captain America became black, and the ...

Every Ape for Himself

The usual complaint of critics about sequels is that they are intellectually unchallenging. Yet sequels have become more cognitively demanding as screenwriters have come to assume ...

Joseph

The Head Hooligans

The greatest criminal and most profitable enterprise the world over is FIFA. I write this as billions are watching obscenely overpaid footballers competing for a cup that is long ...

A Miasma of Untruth

Those who irritate us and give us grounds for righteous indignation are our secret benefactors, for there are few states of mind more gratifying than that of righteous ...

Fact Rape

Ever notice that when you read an article on something you know a lot about, they"€™ve got 50% of the facts wrong? Whether it's a story about your hometown or your favorite ...


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