Wouldn't you know it? Defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth's grilling by the Senate Armed Services Committee about his opposition to women in combat would have to come the very week that Los Angeles' all-female leadership team was performing so masterfully at subduing wildfires. The way things are going, the fires should be out by Memorial Day. Between the gals who just let about a third of L.A. go up in smoke and Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, the 5-foot-tall "combat veteran," Hegseth had his work cut out for him. (Adding to his difficulty, women didn't want Pete to solve this problem for them, ...
My pronouns are She-rah, Herbal, and Hersheys. I don’t think it’s asking too much to refer to me using those simple terms, which I’ve made up, as I’m legally entitled to do in the name of ...
Can I call ’em or what? From September 2023: “The GOP is lucky as hell that Dems haven’t realized just how unstoppable a ‘1994 Democrat’ would be today, especially in city and state ...
It’s mid-September, so your kids will be back in school or college on both sides of the Atlantic—but what will they actually be learning there? Quite possibly, little more ...
This is a sequel-in-spirit to last week’s piece about rightist “fog.” In a recent column I mentioned a Ron Unz contradiction regarding the Holocaust. In his “landmark” ...
Is Super Mario gay? The simple answer is “no,” although that distinctly camp mustache-and-dungarees combo does make him look rather like a lost member of the Village ...
Life is full of surprises. Two weeks ago, a professor from Ben-Gurion University publicly called me out on Twitter. That’s not surprising; I expect Jewish academics to dislike ...
During a recent BBC/Showtime documentary about TV’s funniest rapist Bill Cosby, controversy was sparked by the comments of one of the talking heads, the self-described ...
Weird that the media didn't cite Ketanji Brown Jackson's height and weight as her most important characteristics. When it came to THE FIRST BLACK WOMAN ON THE SUPREME COURT, it ...
Besides being a black woman at a time when the Biden administration is publicly committed to appointing a disproportionate number of black women, economist Lisa D. Cook’s prime ...
Last week, we discussed Rebekah Jones, the crazy lady who wrote a 342-page telenovela about her ex-lover, Garrett Sweeterman, then went on to fame and fortune by claiming Florida ...
Most of the time that I have spent informing myself about the world we live in, with only partial success, has been wasted, at least as far as practical effect is concerned. ...
This week, we'll look at two tweets that encapsulate everything that's wrong with the "white privilege" narrative consuming our nation. The Twitter account @nowthisnews posted a ...
“Get big money out of politics.” So screams Bernie Sanders’ campaign website. Elizabeth Warren has her own iteration of the phrase, as have many politicians, even some ...
How funny it is when silly political correctness gets tangled up. The latest case has been a description of the Spanish actor Antonio Banderas (in magazines such as Vanity Fair ...
One oddity of discourse is that novel phrases seem more likely to catch on if their meanings are opaque than if they are self-evident. Having to know a semisecret code makes ...
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