The ways of human perversity are legion, and secretly we are glad of it, for it would be a dull world"a kind of ideal Switzerland raised to a higher power"without them. ...
Political conformity has settled like a thick fog over the whole American ...
Tempus sure fugit, and how. Twenty years ago today, Thursday, July 2, 1995, monarchs from around the world descended on London for the wedding of Greek Crown Prince Pavlos to ...
In 1994, a black man told an audience at New Jersey’s Kean College, "White folks was in the caves while we was building empires…. We taught philosophy and ...
This week's column is in the noble Derbian tradition of advice to the younger generation. From the aery height of three score and ten I offer you nuggets of wisdom, wrenched with ...
I landed at Rafic Hariri Airport at five in the morning. Friends had asked if Beirut was dangerous. I wanted to see. Basra had surprised me in the war, it was pleasant around the ...
That Monica Lewinsky got a standing ovation after giving a speech isn"t the part of the story I"d have picked for my headline. It would be news if Monica"or your ...
On June 24, NBC News prominently featured a story on its website headlined "White Americans Are Biggest Terror Threat in U.S.: Study." Clicking the link took readers to a ...
The Week's Most Convoluted, Persecuted, and Prostituted Headlines OUT, DAMN"D RACIST SPOT! Amid the national moral panic that’s been engineered and whipped up ...
Professional politicians are, according to me, such loathsome, repulsive critters that non-politicians are always appealing by ...
Last Wednesday, June 24, Pugs held a luncheon in honor of our first member to depart for the Elysian Fields, or that large CinemaScope screen up above, Sir Christopher Lee, age ...
The American flag is a symbol of Native American genocide. We need to take it down. While you"re at it, take down the Union Jack. It symbolizes 700 years of war against ...
In the realm of science fiction, few things are as much fun to read about as the near extinction of the human race. Some awful catastrophe strikes humanity, wiping out all but a ...
Are American actors in decline due to the rise of better-trained British leading men, as an Atlantic article by Terrence Rafferty contends? Sure, the younger Brits are more ...
The horrific mass shooting in a Charleston church is bringing out the best in all of us. I might be using the word "best" incorrectly. Left-wing pundits are blaming ...
What I don"t know about sex can fill a book. (Literally!) But somehow, contrary to the natural order of things, I became more naive as I entered my fifth decade. For example: ...