The stink of bullshittery clinging to the so-called "gay sweater" first enters the nostrils upon reading that it traces its origins back to "a lighthearted ...
A good historian should be an annoyance. Most people want simple, pat answers to complex historical questions. Lousy historians give the people what they want. A genuinely ...
It's gotten to the point where every time that some crazed psycho deliberately crashes a plane into a mountain, some dimwitted enabler will rush to the smoldering crash site to ...
The Week's Most Peerless, Fearless, and Cheerless Headlines SPRING BREAK 2015: MASS SHOOTING AT FLORIDA HOUSE PARTY The normally placid Gulf Coast town of Panama City Beach, FL, ...
The late Simon Leys, the great Sinologist and literary essayist, once wrote a little essay on the first lines of novels. He was inspired to do so by having picked up G. K. ...
It’s a famous quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald, one that Elton John should ponder, when he’s not out shopping, that is. “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to ...
So the U.S. is bombing Iran's enemies in one country, while helping to bomb its allies in ...
Fox News has been broadcasting a series of Florida vacation shockers under the title, "Spring Break Exposed." They"re showing twenty-somethings partying in bikinis and ...
What things make us laugh? In all times and places the top draws have been sex, class, and race. The precise way these major themes tickle our funnybones varies with ...
Yesterday a young man asked me to recommend a must-read book, the one that meant the most to me. My answer to that question hasn"t changed since it was published in 1988: ...
The Week's Queerest, Dearest, and Severest Headlines BLACK FEMALE RAPPER: "I HATE FAT WHITE AMERICANS" The Harlem-born muff-diving female rapper named Azealia Banks has ...
That puts "racist" up there with "and" and ...
Flipping through some television garbage trying to induce sleep, I came upon an old western starring Kirk Douglas, Dorothy Malone and Rock Hudson. Once upon a time the above names ...
Reading Steven Goldberg's Fads and Fallacies in the Social Sciences the other day, I got to his 1998 essay on the Clinton scandals. Steve starts off with an Oscar Wilde quote: I ...
Muggeridge's Law, indeed. The Punch editor (and all around crusty old fart) observed late-ish in the 20th century that modern life's absurdities rendered the satirist's role ...
It was still dark outside last Saturday morning when I was driving to get breakfast at a diner. A story came on the local radio news saying that two males in their early thirties ...
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