Frank Sinatra

Ladies and Gentlemen…President Sinatra

Frank Sinatra's Secret Service code name was "€œNapoleon."€ Before you can finish asking, "€œWhy did he need one?"€ you"€™ll remember: JFK was practically a member ...

Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia

No Peace in the Uncanny Valley

Star Wars makes you stupid. Star Trek makes you smart. Yes, both fandoms pursue cosplay, compulsive crap collection, and other life-wasters. But whereas Star Wars is a ...

Right-Wingers, Please Stop Saying This One Stupid Thing

If I"€™d known, as a teenager, that Lake Superior State University existed, maybe I"€™d have bothered getting a degree after all. For one thing, these guys usher in spring ...

DNA Despair

On the topic of "€œnoteworthy accomplishments,"€ here's an ironic one: With How the Scots Invented the Modern World, author Arthur Herman somehow wrote a book that is tedious ...

Joan Rivers

From Joan to Donald

"€œI lost my whole family in Auschwitz. Seriously: I waited in the gift shop for hours…"€ "€”Joan Rivers Taki's particularly hydrophobic commenters will greet with ...

A Burgeoning Civic Religion

I never want to belong to any club that would have anyone else as a member. Groucho's original complaint is incontestably clever, but when it comes to going almost anywhere, from ...

Fifty Shades of Hate

Congratulations, Taki's! You made the big time! And by "€œbig time"€ I mean, er, a bunch of telephone poles in one Toronto neighborhood. Right after Trump's election, this ...

Take the Black Pill

So this is my fourth Hitler. When I was a kid, I treasured my Book of Lists, and still remember big chunks of it. (But don"€™t know my own cell phone number a year after I got ...

Friends (With Benefits) of the Earth

I hate the Earth. Yeah, I hate all the other planets, too, but what I mean is: Nowadays, conservatives are supposed to pretend to care about stuff like equality and gay ...

Helen Gurley Brown

Helen Gurley Brown’s Lipstick Liberation

Four years after her death, Helen Gurley Brown"€”author of the 1962 phenomenon Sex and the Single Girl and longtime Cosmopolitan editor in chief"€”is having a moment. Not one ...

The Godzilla Theory of Social Justice Warriors

It's a head-shaker of a showdown: two unlikely contenders not everyone is particularly excited about. Even some of the voters who got them to this point (beginning what seems like ...

Martin Luther king Jr

Martin Luther King, Pussy Grabber

On the recording, surreptitiously made in Los Angeles, the subject can be heard: * giving his friends lewd nicknames * delivering a lengthy monologue larded with bawdy and ...

Casablanca

Jonah Goldberg Goes to the Movies

I was too cowardly to join my anarchist comrades in their Reagan/Mulroney-era civil disobedience exploits, which sometimes involved throwing blood (real ...

Tragically Hysterical

I can"€™t believe I have to write about "€œcultural appropriation"€ again/now/anymore. But as another Clinton veers toward the White House, and a new Blair Witch movie ...

Late-Onset Lesbianism

Remember when "€œStella got her groove back"€"€”and the dude of her dreams turned out to be on the down-low? Well, there's something in the Million-Selling Lady Memoirists ...

A Liberal Dose of Hypocrisy

With Stephen Harper now resigned and retired, Conservative MP Dr. Kellie Leitch is running for his old job as party leader. To that end, she recently surveyed her constituents, ...


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