How the Free Speech Movement Stopped Moving

This month marks 50 years since Mario Savio stood atop a police car at UC Berkeley and gave an impassioned speech to throngs of young pampered radicals that launched what is now ...

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Neocon Cowards and Russian Ingrates

The time-honored saying that England’s great battles have been won on the playing fields of Eton is a lot of hooey. Blücher was the real winner against Napoleon at Waterloo, ...

Can America Fight a Thirty Years’ War?

“The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature.” With this citation from Madison, ...

Ebola As Seen Through Ebonics

Our crumbling and fidgety nation is still reeling from last week's news that a Liberian national apparently lied his way into the USA for Ebola treatment. While many of us fear ...

An Idiot’s Guide to the Right

Okay, first of all, stop saying "€œFaux News Lies."€ That's redundant. Either call it Faux News and we"€™re done, or say "€œFox News Lies."€ Also, what is a ...

President Obama

Barack Obama, Outside Agitator

In his U.N. address, President Obama listed a parade of horrors afflicting our world: “Russian aggression in Europe,” “terrorism in Syria and Iraq,” rapes ...

Against Stuff!

You knew that climate change could be blamed for any kind of weather, but did you know that the underlying cause is not, in fact, carbon emissions but racism? That was one of ...

Barney Frank

Drugs Are Not the Answer

The bumbling croak of former congressman Barney Frank should have been put out to pasture long ago. Frank retired in January 2013, but he is still solicited to mouth off his ...

The Lucky Goatherds

Next time you read about an auctioneer’s gavel coming down on a 150-million-dollar painting bought by some flunky representing the gangster ruling family of Qatar, don’t ooh ...

Homogamy Most Heterodox

Last Friday proved a more eventful one than usual in New Zealand: on top of the usual weekend hustle, the Kiwi nation hosted the wedding of one Travis McIntosh to his partner, ...

Ted Cruz’s Lying Circus

It might be a naïveté stemming from my mere 34 years on earth, but is Ted Cruz not the worst charlatan since "€œMan of the People"€ Slick Willie slimed his way into the ...

The Moron Mandate

Americans believe a lot of silly things about their northern neighbor, Canada. Being endowed with an "€œexceptional"€ heritage leads many Yankees into thinking their country ...

What Would Braveheart Do?

No matter how the vote turns out on Thursday in Scotland, either for independence or continued union with Britain, the disintegration of the Old Continent appears almost ...

Scottish Independence Is Crap

"€œSee, if you was Billy Connolly sitting right there,"€ said the Winston Churchill doppelganger beside me in a Glasgow pub, "€œAh"€™d fuckin"€™ stab ye."€ I was ...

Princess Elizabeth, 1945

The Occupation

I have taken another trip on my syllogismobile to an alternate universe. Among the artifacts I brought back with me was A.J. Braithwaite's History of Britain (2011 edition), a ...

Bluster and Bluff in the Baltic

“I say to the people of Estonia and the people of the Baltics, today we are bound by our treaty alliance. ... Article 5 is crystal clear: An attack on one is an attack on ...


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