Frank Sinatra's Secret Service code name was "Napoleon." Before you can finish asking, "Why did he need one?" you"ll remember: JFK was practically a member ...
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 ...
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 ...
On the topic of "noteworthy accomplishments," here's an ironic one: With How the Scots Invented the Modern World, author Arthur Herman somehow wrote a book that is tedious ...
"I 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 ...
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 ...
Congratulations, Taki's! You made the big time! And by "big time" I mean, er, a bunch of telephone poles in one Toronto neighborhood. Right after Trump's election, this ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
I was too cowardly to join my anarchist comrades in their Reagan/Mulroney-era civil disobedience exploits, which sometimes involved throwing blood (real ...
I can"t believe I have to write about "cultural appropriation" again/now/anymore. But as another Clinton veers toward the White House, and a new Blair Witch movie ...
Remember when "Stella 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 ...
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, ...