“Without men, civilization would last until the oil needed changing.” "€”Federicius Aurelius Superomnem, 345 BC Oh god, oh god. Death, taxes, migraine, sinus ...

A lot of things about Great Britain aren"€™t so great. Their bathrooms are freezing and if you want a shower, you have to turn on the hot water tank and wait twenty minutes. ...

In a recent edition of Radio Derb I mentioned the advantages of moving to Iceland but added: “The downside is, you have to not mind living on a volcano.” One ...

Is homosexuality a perversion? If not, is it entirely normal? Almost normal?  These days, the very idea of perversion is out of fashion. The Washington Post would probably use ...

As Americans huddle by their fireplaces and space heaters this week to either celebrate or avoid the Christmas holiday, the nation's hottest cultural controversy hinges on whether ...

The Week's Most Lurid, Florid, and Horrid Headlines A VERY CRIMINAL CHRISTMAS As the world girds itself for another Christmas"€”with quirky regional twists on the festivities ...

Did I say "common sense"? There's no market for that in the Western world ...

About 44.3 million Americans are going to be flying this holiday season, which is a million more than last year. This is ironic because flying becomes about a million times worse ...

Human-rights groups and assorted do-gooders have been filling up my Twitter timeline with news of a phenomenon many think no longer exists: literal witch hunts. In 2009 the ...

One of the pleasures of The Rolling Stones is that until recently they seem to have gotten by without a care for the bland pieties of the age. There have been no impassioned calls ...

If the Jews really ran show business, then KISS would"€™ve been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame the first year they were eligible"€”in 1999, 25 years after the ...

Although Santa Claus doesn"€™t exist, I am nevertheless convinced that he is white. I take it as a matter of faith that he is as white as his beard and as white as the polar ice ...

The Week's Most Septic, Dyspeptic, and Narcoleptic Headlines GROUNDBREAKING NEW RESEARCH ON OBESITY If you"€™re a black woman who eats tons of hamburgers and guzzles gallons of ...

By comparison with the people Barack Obama hung out with in his pre-Presidential years "€” people like Bill Ayers and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright "€” Raúl Castro is ...

Little more than a hundred years ago the modern British welfare state was born in David Lloyd George's 1909 finance bill, the “people's budget.” Hearing of the bill's ...

Berenson's story is one of the most fabulous within living ...