New York City

Noo Yawk, Noo Yawk

New York  - “Gimme a BLT on rye and hold da mayo” is a great Noo Yawk sound. So is boid for bird, and toerty toird for 33rd street. True working class accents no longer ...

Cops and Robbers

What was your first thought on seeing that video clip of the white cop shooting the fleeing black perp? Mine was: "€œWhat fresh lie is this?"€ The point of reference here ...

A Troll Down Memory Lane

By the time you read this, the Memories Pizza "€œgay wedding"€ story will have gone the way of every overhyped, outrage-inducing Internet meme, relegated to the ...

Italian Gardens, London

Twice the Blabbering Fool

Ah Spring, the spring of our frost bitten age. At the Polish Club in London, a wonderful place studded with portraits of Polish patriots who have fought and sacrificed for the ...

Into the Remainder Bins

In journalism, "€œtrend pieces"€ are like the weather: Everyone complains about them "€“ and there"€™ll be a new one around any minute. (One probably written by some ...

Rape Culture…or Rape DNA?

The April edition of International Journal of Epidemiology contains an article called "€œSexual offending runs in families: A 37-year nationwide study."€ A summary of the ...

Hillary Clinton

The Week That Perished

The Week's Most Bilious, Supercilious, and Punctilious Headlines COVER YOUR BALLS, GENTS: HILLARY CLINTON IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT A stern warning to the white males who comprise ...

United Nations Complex, New York

Is Nationalism a Dirty Word?

Nationalists want all the diverse peoples of the world to be secure in their own cultures and traditions, each in a sovereign nation of its ...

Paris Hilton

Landed Fortunes

"€œThere is no more potent instrument of fate in 19th century fiction than the legacy."€ So writes a female columnist in Britain's best newspaper, The Daily Telegraph, and ...

Quarterly Potpourri

Virtue totalitarianism. For devout Christian bakers, florists, and photographers throughout the U.S.A., the message going out from the news recently has been the one Anouk Aimee ...

America’s Last Remaining Manufacturing Industry

I hate the real phone, so despite my lifetime membership in the Cult of Mac, I"€™ve never wanted one in my damn pocket or purse. Sadly, circumstances forced me to finally buy an ...

The Sin of Chivalry

A very common sexist stereotype is that women are absurdly hypersensitive. Funny enough, these days that stereotype persists mostly due to the absurdly hypersensitive real-life ...

The Week That Perished

The Week's Most Dreadful, Fretful, and Regretful Headlines GAY-KILLING DUO GETS GAY-MARRIED IN PRISON It is perhaps darkly poetic that the "€œUK's first same-sex prison ...

Snuffed Out

The least one can say of the psychiatric treatment given to Andreas Lubitz, the pilot who killed 149 people as well as himself in crashing the Germanwings aircraft into the Alps, ...

Los Angeles Aqueduct

Arithmetic on the West Coast

The California water crisis is one sign that the U.S.A. has a bad, stupid population ...

Pietro Bini

Down with Modernism, up with Mozart

End of season is always bittersweet, the melting snows a bit like autumn leaves, but the days are longer and soon spring will chase any remaining winter blues away. The Eagle ...


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