Saints Alive!

It's spring, and so a young Catholic girl's fancy turns to picking out a confirmation name. Being kid-free, I was only reminded of this when a friend mentioned his daughter's ...

Bono

Typhoid Bono Testifies

"€œSurely this is the stupidest shit I"€™ve ever said.... "€œIf you can"€™t grab public attention by standing up before the U.S. Senate and saying that Chris Rock, Amy ...

Kitty Genovese

Kitty Genovese: The Global Warming of Crime

Through malice or incompetence, they"€™ve gotten a lot wrong"€”from Stalin's famine to the date of the moon landing"€”but factor out anything under Jayson Blair's byline, ...

An Evening With the “€œRape Me First, Kill Me Last”€ Crowd

"€œLeaving the house was my first mistake."€ That's an old running gag on my blog (along with "€œApartheid: Was it all bad?"€ and "€œJournalists: Your moral and ...

Rob Ford

St. Rob Ford the Baptist

They won"€™t have Rob Ford to stub their toes on anymore. Last week, the ex"€“Toronto mayor, struck by a rare form of cancer, was checked into palliative care, the ...

No Taxation of Menstruation!

Yes, the Daily Mail has too many typos and stopped displaying correctly on Firefox last week"€”and somehow nobody in charge of captions recognized impossible-to-miss future ...

Better Living Through Punk

Should current trends continue"€”although "€œtrends"€ seems too grand a word for what amount to quotidian, repetitive habits and chores"€”my husband and I will celebrate ...

(His)panic at 20,000 Feet

"€œPassengers applaud as boy removed from plane for allergies"€ Hell, I clapped too and I wasn"€™t even on board. That headline made my day. Enough is enough! I thought. ...

Where the Sidewalk Ends

My Taki's columns have now officially killed twice as many people as Ted Kennedy's car. Last April, it was Günter Grass, then last week, Harper Lee. I didn"€™t ask for this ...

Times Square, New York

To Mock a Killing Bird

Harper Lee is the Rachel Carson of American fiction. Okay, let me back up: I"€™ve never read To Kill a Mockingbird. I was going to add, "€œbecause I"€™m Canadian, ...

Hit Me, Baby, One More Time

It's the trial of the cunt-ury! Hey, give me a break. You try coming up with something original to say about Canada's most talked-about court case pretty much ever: The ...

The Truth Is, Uh, Still Out There

So I was wrong. The 1990s Revival is going ahead after all, leading those of us who lived through that decade to ask: "€œWait, things happened in the 1990s?"€ At the time ...

The English Way of Cancer

Is there a less useful word in the English language than "€œsuddenly"€? I mean, doesn"€™t everything happen "€œsuddenly,"€ depending on when you start your ...

There’s a Word for That

"€œThe deflection tactic of Sundeen and his ilk deserves a name. It's being employed with such frequency, it's gone beyond being merely a cliché; it's now a full-fledged ...

At “€œC”€ Level

So the Queen joked that (re)meeting Canada's new 43-year-old prime minister, Justin Trudeau, made her "€œfeel so old."€ Yeah, well, that line forms behind me, Grandma. I ...

What Would “€œWinning”€ Look Like? (Besides Having “€œGreat Hair”€?)

Taki's own Gavin McInnes just conducted a mesmerizing interview with Breitbart.com's Milo. It was titled "€œWhy We"€™re Winning,"€ because Milo's new column in question ...


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