When I was 13 I was looking at an old Penthouse out behind school and Dale Aiken said, "This is nothing. When you"re married, you get to see your wife's tits anytime you ...
Briefly home from boarding school back in 1951, I went to a bar with a phony draft card, ordered a beer, and watched Rocky Marciano knock out my idol Joe Louis. Joe was 37 and ...
I’ll admit it: I was apprehensive about the chemo. Some decades ago a female relative of mine"not long married, infant daughter"was diagnosed with cancer and ...
The Iranian film A Separation, a domestic drama-turned-courtroom mystery, is among the most acclaimed of recent movies. It won a host of film festival awards, the Best Foreign ...
Not much is happening in the celebrity gutter this week unless you count the big pregnancy rumors from Snooki of Jersey Shore fame. Her boyfriend Jionni (nice spelling) LaValle is ...
There are over seven thousand dead in Syria now. What are the Syrian soldiers thinking? The last post Marie Colvin made before her death tells us they"re "shelling a city ...
They were completely fake, they were mostly unlovable, other people wrote their songs"and they were still better than The Beatles. I don"t give The Monkees much thought, ...
Nomophobia, or "no-mobile-phobia," sounds as stupid as luposlipaphobia. At least the latter"the fear of being chased by wolves on slick kitchen linoleum while wearing ...
GSTAAD—It’s early in the silvery morning light as I look out my window up here in the heights. A batallion of wispy white clouds hides behind the surrounding mountains—a ...
It's stressful to be hated. It goes against our instincts. We want to be loved. But Andrew Breitbart was ...
A vastly underexplored topic is the British government's role in greasing the skids for World War I. Until recently it was hard to find scholars who would dispute the culturally ...
The white/black test-score gap has been in the news since the 1960s, yet much like Mark Twain supposedly said about the weather, despite all the talk, nobody seems able to do much ...
Although most critics lambasted this year's Oscar show, I roared with laughter. The jokes were funny. Some were even hilarious. It was a ginormous improvement on last year's ...
So Jewish people don"t run Hollywood after all? That was my first snarky thought when I heard about the flap between comedian Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat, Talladega Nights) and ...
Is it ever permissible to find a "hate crime" funny? Granted, "funny" is in the eye of the beholder, and I"d wager that any pair of eyeballs not irreparably ...
Many people claim that they pay no attention to race, but then along comes the Jeremy Lin story to prove again that most folks do. Wikipedia, that embodiment of 21st-century ...