Every so often some clown decides to call Thomas Jefferson a "racist," and other clowns let him publish the charge. The most recent clown is Paul Finkelman, a professor at ...
The great mystery of my lifetime has been the 1960s. It's worth returning to this vast subject periodically as new perspectives unveil themselves. The closest thing to a ...
Ah, Italia! Such a great place to get your head around great art and great women, but such a shitty little country. How else to describe a so-called free and democratic country ...
For right-wingers, November proved to be the cruelest month in quite some time. The Kenyan Klepto won the White House again. Speaking of democracy: Here in Toronto, our most ...
Burly-and-bearded country singer Trace Adkins ruffled all the usual feathers and bruised all the usual feelings when he dared to wear a Confederate battle flag earpiece in full ...
Why do we still read Henry Louis Mencken? He was mostly a columnist, and columns are usually forgotten the day after they are published. One of the main reasons we still read ...
When in the States, I keep my TV tuned exclusively to white ...
"White People Problems" is a loaded term that combines a facetious reference to white privilege with the accusation that we"re all pampered ingrates. Never mind that ...
The gossip is that the Washington Post is in bad trouble and losing money like only Tina Brown can. Not that Brown has anything to do with the Post. Tina wastes zillions of ...
OK, three months are up. Time for another potpourri of unconnected items. I can’t claim any thematic thread this time. Like the universe in current cosmological models, my ...
About a year ago an Italian judge ordered me, as a condemned criminal, to perform 166 hours of unpaid "lavoro socialmente utile" (socially useful work). I kept putting it ...
If only Romney had campaigned against Elmo instead of Big Bird. Then again, the sordid details of Sesame Street puppeteer Kevin Clash's alleged dalliances with four then-underage ...
As the leftist juggernaut blithely steamrollers its way over what's left of this country, its blinkered acolytes have smugly convinced themselves that they are on "the right ...
Just a note of cautionary darkness, there, listeners. I didn't mean to spoil your ...
The unfortunately named Nadra Kareem Nittle recently penned a popular article instructing the ignorant about how to deal with "racist" relatives. The article was so gay ...
There has been an outbreak of realism recently. I noticed it first in the postelection commentary. The normal thing is that following an election, the thumb-sucking commentariat ...