Seeing Eye to Eye

Of all the subjects of academic study, psychology is probably the most useless, or at least the most useless by comparison with its pretensions to use. In a century and a half, it ...

5 Quotes Overheard at Christmas

The Christian holiday based on the birth of Jesus and made even more kid-friendly by Northern European folklore is upon us. The odds are pretty high you"€™re one of the nearly ...

What’s Really Behind the San Bernardino Shooting: Paternity Leave

The first thing I thought when I heard the names of Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, was "€œThey sound like new parents."€ Sure enough, the couple had a baby ...

One More Feather Duster

La Rochefoucauld said that it is easier to give good advice than to take it, to which he might have added that it is also easier to agree with good advice than to act on it. ...

Mugging Me Softly

Last Tuesday night I was walking down a poorly lit Brooklyn street en route to meet a friend for dinner when suddenly I noticed a black male strolling alongside me. He wasn"€™t ...

What Kind of Buddhism is This, Otto?

"€œWhat kind of Buddhism is this, Otto?"€ In A Fish Called Wanda (1988), Kevin Kline's felonious "€œOtto"€"€”as stupid as he is sexy"€”preps for yet another ...

The War on Women Is Real

The "€œWar on Women"€ is a term usually used to describe Republican policies and their effects on the fairer sex. The right denies such a thing exists, but let's stop kidding ...

A No-Jerk Reaction

Millennials aren"€™t getting laid and what's worse, they don"€™t want to. Even the ones in relationships aren"€™t having sex. Their parents are having more sex than they are ...

The Falling Sun

There is a very disturbing trend going on in Japan that nobody is talking about. Every day, thousands of poor, uneducated white Americans are sneaking into the country from South ...

The Reality Disconnect

Geraldo and Ann Coulter recently had a debate about immigration that was fun to watch, but Washington Heights came up as an example of "€œimmigrant vitality."€ It was wedged ...

The War on Comedy

An Asian dude walks into a bar. "€œPour me a jigger, nigger,"€ he says to the black bartender. "€œCome on, man,"€ the bartender responds, "€œthat's not cool."€ The ...

Idle Hands Do Time

Abolish prison and give everyone a gun. The end. Good night. Oh wait, that's not enough for a column? Okay, how about legalize drugs too? I"€™m not kidding. I know it sounds ...

Where Grandparents Go to Die

My goddaughter was Face Timing with her grandfather the other day and there was something eerily magical about the way he spoke to her. He's been having a hard time recently. ...

Hillary and Bill Clinton

All You Need to Know About Hillary’s Campaign

When our first black president was elected, people took to the streets to cheer. It was the first time that many of us felt genuinely proud of our country. Who would have ever ...

The Brain That Wouldn't Die

Losing Our Heads Over Full-Body Transplants

International Women's Day snuck up on me this year like a rapist in a dark alley. No time to trim the tree with red and white tampons, or stuff the (support) stockings with Diva ...

Martin Short

Parenting From the Grave

In Martin Short's autobiography I Must Say, he describes Stephen Colbert's fearless demeanor after roasting George Bush at the White House Correspondents"€™ dinner in 2006. ...


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