Playboy once asked author Ray Bradbury why science fiction was the "purview of young men." His response is worth recalling now that Ellen Pao has resigned as Reddit's CEO ...
Back in the good old days of 2,500 years ago, the Greeks blamed the gods for their self-induced disasters. In modern times the Brits were to blame and then the Americans. Now it's ...
In the classic Sherlock Holmes story "Silver Blaze," Scotland Yard's Inspector Gregory asks Holmes, "Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my ...
Over the past few years I don"t know how many hours I"ve wasted reading articles in newspapers about the Greek debt crisis. It isn"t as if I could have affected it in ...
An Asian dude walks into a bar. "Pour me a jigger, nigger," he says to the black bartender. "Come on, man," the bartender responds, "that's not cool." The ...
There’s nothing to add about the clowns in Brussels and Athens but a Yogi Berra pearl, “It ain’t over till it’s over.” The Greek drama will go on and on until the ...
Rolling Stone has had a tough time lately. First, the collapse of the UVA rape story destroyed any semblance of credibility the magazine once enjoyed. Subsequently, Rolling ...
Here's another set of polarities to accompany previous concepts such as Fringe versus Core and High/Low versus Middle that are useful in grasping why some things in modern America ...
The four Mad Max movies are nominally post-apocalyptic, although their explanations for the end of civilization keeps mutating as the budgets expand, from the decline of morality ...
A few days ago I received an e-mail from my British bank about my US$ account in Jersey. I have this account in Jersey because my mainland branch did not allow me to have such an ...
Despite the ceaseless yippety-yap one hears about “white privilege,” the glaringly obvious privilege currently denied to white Americans is the privilege to feel OK ...
If you ever need to be reminded how superior the West is, just hop in a taxi. The drivers come from anywhere-but-here and pretty much all of them are ambassadors of suck. The days ...
In the first quarter of 2015, in the sixth year of the historic Obama recovery, the U.S. economy grew by two-tenths of 1 percent. And that probably sugarcoats it. For trade ...
Like many nerdy white guys of my generation, I"ve found the life story of Bill James inspiring ever since I began reading his Baseball Abstracts thirty years ago this month. A ...
Needless to say, I feel no particular sympathy for banks: for example, my bank charges me 6.37 per cent on electronic transfers from Australia to Britain, even to an account ...
Talk about how the mighty have fallen. Time magazine was for the better part of the 20th century the model for American newsweeklies. Its style of epigrammatic terseness and ...
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