I was wondering why Russia chose to hold its Winter Olympics in the Black Sea beach resort of Sochi, which is almost as far south as you can get in that notoriously northern land. ...
Oh, help. It seems that at Columbia University a rat pack of nursery feminists have got their skivvies in a knot because the library, Butler, is named for an, ugh!, man. Yes. It ...
She was an atheist and I’m a (half-assed) Catholic, so neither one of us is supposed to believe in karma. But I like to think that just before a thieving employee hacked her ...
We are told, often with ill intent, that we live in a patriarchal culture. Our schoolteachers, who always seem to be female, lecture us that males enjoy unfair privileges merely ...
The Week's Most Dumb, Glum, and Ho-Hum Headlines OLYMPIAN CONTROVERSIES The Sochi Winter Olympics are underway, and in a world where nothing is apolitical anymore, luges and ice ...
When, half an eternity ago, I was a small boy who collected stamps, I was very favorably disposed toward King Farouk. I noticed that Egyptian stamps were never the same in taste ...
Can I say "Black Sea"? Perhaps it's racist. Let me just consult the Radio Derb style book. One can never be too careful nowadays ...
GSTAAD—A heavy snowfall diverted some forty-odd private jets from landing in Saanen airport, thus the one percent of the one percent that came to Gstaad for a grand wedding last ...
Ah, the guttering candle of civilization! How I love it. The dwindling flames warm the cockles of a curmudgeon's heart (whatever precisely a cockle may be): the galloping rot, the ...
The university I attended was (and still is) in west-central London. A fifteen-minute walk from the main campus got you to Tottenham Court Road tube station, with Charing Cross ...
After tormenting the rest of us for nigh on a century, last week that unrepentant communist and multimillionaire folk “singer” Pete Seeger was shipped off to the ...
The Week's Most Contemptible, Reprehensible, and Indefensible Headlines ATLANTA's TRAFFIC NIGHTMARE: BLAME THE SNOW BECAUSE IT's WHITE Atlanta"a city of barely a half-million ...
Apart from pulp novels, airport bookshops often have an eccentric selection of books. A few years ago, for example, in the bookshop in the airport nearest my English home, I found ...
May your oats always be sweet and your fetlocks ...
Punk rock is a great way to spend your adolescence, but is has some drawbacks when you"re an adult. For example, having a full back tattoo of a skull-head jellyfish eating ...
"Never darken my door again" was the standard Victorian parting shot to a person you wanted to be rid of. (It was adjusted in one of Bridget Jones’s diaries to: ...
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