There is an Austrian legend that deals with a man who, according to his daily custom, goes to the Neugröschl restaurant in Vienna and has a goulash lunch. As soon as he returns home he goes to bed twice with his wife and thrice with his sister-in-law, rapes the maid, and is arrested just before attempting against his daughter. The case is so interesting from the clinical point of view that a council chaired by an eminent, world-famous professor is called. The family doctor reports that the man has not done anything extraordinary; he just went to the Neugröschl to eat goulash. “What do you ...
I arrived at my house in France recently to find the roses eaten by deer and a drystone wall damaged by wild boar in their eagerness to get at the hollyhocks. One of the bedrooms, moreover, smelled ...
Yeah, that's right"I went there. No, I don"t mean the gay bar (although I did go there, too). I mean I used "tail" instead of "tale" because the story I"m telling involves ...
Life is a struggle, or at least a pendulum swing, between complacency and panic. No doubt most of us are more inclined by temperament to one than to the other, and it is a moot ...
Punk rock is a great way to spend your adolescence, but is has some drawbacks when you"re an adult. For example, having a full back tattoo of a skull-head jellyfish eating ...
Why has the American media suddenly snapped out of a self-induced coma to pay attention to the Knockout Game? Gullible journos are acting as if it’s a spanking-new ...
At first glance, birds look like wonderful creatures who could do no wrong. It turns out that some of them are total jerks who bully the native species out of their nests. The ...
I realize receiving a letter from a time traveler can be confusing, and you may believe this is some kind of a prank. To verify my time-traveling skills, I have enclosed within ...
The environmental movement is predominantly liberal, which means its thought process works backward. They start at the end with a wishful thought""Don"t make this ...
I have trouble accepting the idea that Hitler was a vegetarian. He just didn"t seem that pushy. Apparently others feel the same way. When I started typing “pushy ...
I grew up playing in hardcore punk bands and fighting skinheads, and the political mantra for that scene was "Anarchy and Peace." It seems incredibly naïve in ...
With the shooting death of Trayvon Martin by a neighborhood watch volunteer who was legally carrying a 9-millimeter handgun, the familiar wail has arisen from our cultural and ...
Two years ago Oak Ridge, TN housed the world's fastest supercomputer. Even better, my state took the #1 rank for meth-lab busts that year. Nothing says "vicarious ...
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English taxpayers awoke one morning in late February to discover that the nation's gaiety had been greatly augmented. The BBC proclaimed joyous tidings""Free HIV ...
Is it ever permissible to find a "hate crime" funny? Granted, "funny" is in the eye of the beholder, and I"d wager that any pair of eyeballs not irreparably ...
The bullfight is the ballet of death. It has been immortalized in verse, paint, and film, elegized sometimes to great effect and sometimes to great lament. I have witnessed the ...
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