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 ...
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 ...
The first thing I thought when I heard the names of Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, was "They sound like new parents." Sure enough, the couple had a baby ...
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. ...
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?" In A Fish Called Wanda (1988), Kevin Kline's felonious "Otto""as stupid as he is sexy"preps for yet another ...
The "War 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Geraldo and Ann Coulter recently had a debate about immigration that was fun to watch, but Washington Heights came up as an example of "immigrant vitality." It was wedged ...
An Asian dude walks into a bar. "Pour me a jigger, nigger," he says to the black bartender. "Come on, man," the bartender responds, "that's not cool." The ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...