Donald Trump

The Week That Perished

The Week's Most Kinetic, Magnetic, and Epigenetic Headlines NATIONAL REVIEW POOPS ON TRUMP National Review magazine is a leading light of the American conservative movement ...

Blubber Blame

A recent paper in The New England Journal of Medicine describes the use of surgery to reduce the weight of grossly fat adolescents between the ages of 13 and 19, who are more ...

Iman and David Bowie

African Queens and ‘New Republic’ Dreams

The death of David Bowie—why is it that Stephen Glover always gets it right about our overreaction and hysteria when a pop star goes the way of all of us?—twigged something ...

The English Way of Cancer

Is there a less useful word in the English language than "€œsuddenly"€? I mean, doesn"€™t everything happen "€œsuddenly,"€ depending on when you start your ...

David Bowie as the

The Thin White Corpse

Another day, another dead British rock star who famously flirted with fascist symbolism. Two weeks ago it was Lemmy, and now comes word that David Bowie has finally floated away ...

Al Sharpton

The Week That Perished

The Week's Most Mysterious, Delirious, and Unserious Headlines AL SHARPTON COMPARES HOLLYWOOD TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS The Right Reverend Al Sharpton is a black man of God who used ...

Cincinnati Bengals

Go, Vontaze!

Thirty years or so ago, I wrote an article about a mugging in New York's Central Park, one that today would have got me arrested for breaching PC rules, but back then was ...

Not a Fan

One should not speak ill of the dead, of course, especially of the recently dead, but it does not follow that one should speak well of them, or speak of them at all. Personally I ...

Terror on the Slopes

War and Peace has been in the news lately, so what was it that Leo wrote about all happy families being alike? Tolstoy came to mind last week right here in Gstaad when I ...

Angelina Jolie

Propaganda Pop Culture: From Cuckmercials to “€˜Star Wars”€™

I recently heard comedian Nick DiPaolo say, "€œI don"€™t think I can watch Angelina Jolie beat the shit out of six Green Berets. My suspension of disbelief just can"€™t take ...

Netflix and Shill

Last week I decided to "€œbinge-watch"€ the hit Netflix series Making a Murderer. I mean, I needed something to do with my time as I nursed the shattered femur I incurred ...

Off the Grid

Maybe it's a religion thing. I can"€™t imagine Sikhs or Jains fantasizing about living alone in a cozy, remote little shack. But if you"€™re a Christian"€”especially a ...

Henriette Reker

The Week That Perished

The Week's Most Specious, Facetious, and Diecious Headlines KEEPING MUSLIM RAPISTS AT ARM's LENGTH As Germans rang in the New Year, there were multiple reports of mob-style ...

Palace Hotel, Gstaad

Give Me Gstaad

Okay, sports fans, what do Dame Vivien Duffield and Evelyn Waugh have in common? The answer is absolutely nothing, but why start 2016 with a dumb question such as this one? Waugh ...

Bill Cosby

Down With The Cos

I never liked Bill Cosby. If, anytime between 1984 and 1992, I"€™d been overwhelmed by a hankering to watch a loud, pompous middle-aged man yell at his family, I"€™d have ...

Lemmy Kilmister

Rockin”€™ the Swastika

If the death of Lemmy Kilmister from iconic heavy metal band Motörhead teaches us anything, it’s that society currently considers it far more respectable to be a drug ...


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