People get breathtakingly angry when they think they"ve gotten away with something ... and then they don"t. The more time has passed between the deed and the discovery, ...
Soccer, while traditionally lacking in highbrow accoutrements like sophisticated statistics (although those are improving) or literature (the most memorable English-language book ...
"This is just like a Hollywood awards show, but with fewer Jews." You"d be forgiven for assuming that's another excerpt from actor Gary Oldman's forthcoming Playboy ...
First they came for the male feminists, and no one spoke out"because no one likes them, not even the female feminists. Dearest faithful reader, I"m a man who finds ...
The Week's Most Unpleasant, Putrescent, and Adolescent Headlines NIPSTERS: MAKING HITLER HIP AGAIN If you"re a dedicated white nationalist who laments the fact that the left ...
Having failed to commit suicide a hundred years ago, Europe's having another ...
A few columns ago I mentioned in passing that the Mrs. and I had been watching Breaking Bad. This brought some inquiries about whether we got to the end of it, and what I ...
I"m being a pain in the ass again. My childhood makes me do it. When I was 11, we boy kids in Alabama liked to shoot a wasp's nest with BB guns and run like hell. I guess it ...
Roughly half of the emails I get from my blog readers ask, "Where do you get this stuff?" while the other half contain "this stuff": links to crazy stories and ...
In 2004 in rural Berkshire, England, a rush-hour commuter train from London to Plymouth collided with a stationary car at a level crossing and all eight carriages, bearing two ...
"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine": so uttered a distraught and heartbroken Humphrey Bogart in the iconic Casablanca. It's one ...
It'd be worth it in the long run, but ... politicians don't concern themselves much with the long ...
As everyone who has ever joined a club knows, Pugs is the world’s most exclusive one, its 19 members varying from German nobility and Greek and Danish royalty to the British ...
The title I wanted for my 2009 call to pessimism was We Are Doomed, Doomed. The publisher thought that was too dark, though, so I settled at last for just one "Doomed." A ...
Sometimes a book is so rich and alive that through a kind of synesthesia it makes you rethink your crotchety opinions about other art forms. Bradley Smith's new book, for example, ...
"Summertime, and the livin" is easy," as the song tells us. Or it used to be, as my father complained when confronted on his boat by the "vacances payées," ...
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