The Spice of Death

The 107-year-old Variety publications have been sold to the Internet-based Penske Media Corporation. Weekly Variety, daily Variety, and Variety Broadway are all falling into the ...

Bernie Ecclestone

Short Man With a Long Reach

Bernie Ecclestone is a gnomish Brit ex-grease monkey. He is my neighbor in Gstaad, the small alpine Swiss village which once upon a time was the Mecca of the old rich and titled ...

When Push Comes to Shoving Cripples

Poor Richard Widmark. He made over 60 movies, but when he died in 2008, obit reels highlighted one infamous scene from 1947's Kiss of Death, the film that made him a star. The ...

Dummies Great and Small

I don’t know who was the dumber of the two: the Greek banker who was in a hurry to spend 100 million big ones for a London pad or the American woman who accidentally walked off ...

Mimi Matte

A Hyper-Hormonal Whole Foods Hot-Tub Hoedown

How many feminists does it take to screw in a lightbulb? If you replied, "€œThat's not funny!"€ you need to get with it. The correct answer is "€œthe hot ...

Toga! Toga! Toga!

In Italy"€”which is the next eurozone domino to fall after Spain, Greece, and Portugal"€”things are bad and getting worse. The mood here is one of black pessimism and utter ...

Jakarta, Indonesia

Reading, Writing, and Road-Building in Indonesia

JAKARTA"€”Anies Baswedan, the brilliant and thoughtful young president of Paramadina University here in this capital city, beams as he describes Indonesia Mengajar (Teach ...

The Silent Spring That Won”€™t Shut Up

If the Democrats lose in November, the party's supporters will likely initiate another one of their semi-regular rebranding exercises. "€œLiberal"€ became a curse word ...

Let’s Be Perfectly Clear About Scientology

As someone who was molested in a previous life, I have a lot of respect for Scientology. Not only does this 3.5-million-strong “Way to Happiness” offer answers that ...

Robert Kosilek

Kill Woman, Get Free Sex Change

RamZPaul is at it again! This time with his hilarious take on healthcare, gender issues and ...

Canada’s Down Syndrome Mafia

Last week, Canadian cops arrested more than 30 people operating a massive "€œinternational crime ring."€ A police spokesman carefully described those charged as ...

Paralympic Piffle

I just flew back from the Paralympics, and boy is my arm tired. No, but seriously folks, Britain appears to be going bloody mad for the fourteenth Summer Paralympic Games, and ...

How Robots Push Our Buttons

Robot & Frank is a clever little sci-fi dramedy about a semi-senile old coot whose concerned son buys him a robot as a valet and minder. The film is well crafted and timely ...

Eat the Rich?

Ah, the rich. The rich, as used to be said of the poor, are always with us. What do we others, we non-rich in all our generality, think of them? I turn to America’s ...

Bloodbath in the Rainbow Nation

Police opened fire on a surging mob of angry mine workers on August 16th at South Africa's Marikana platinum mine. When the guns went quiet, 34 were dead and at least 78 wounded. ...

Save the Drive-Ins

If we"€™re going to bail out an entire industry, how about drive-in movie theaters? Fewer than 400 remain in America and they all need roughly $100,000 each to switch over to ...


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