I hate Hollywood. To me, the entertainment industry ranks right up there with rectal cancer on the list of the worst things in the world. And no, not because the biz is a CIA MKUltra Illuminati front (or however that theory goes), but rather because Hollywood attracts truly horrible people. The ...
There's a short story I read in my youth, but for the life of me I can"t recall the title or the author (if any readers can place the tale, I"d be extremely grateful. As you know, doing a favor for a Jew is rather like earning the gratitude of a leprechaun, except instead of being given a ...
"I was not angry since I came to France/Until this instant." So cries Henry V in one of the play's pivotal moments. Henry, having just learned of the slaughter of his camp's servant boys at the hands of the dastardly French, declares that up until that point, he"d been warring with the ...
For far too many political-opinion writers, Independence Day has turned into an annual bitchfest about the U.S., with an inescapable flood of op-eds about how America is "warlike," how the Founders were "racist," and how the whole shebang is merely an excuse for mindless jingoism. ...
Life in these United States can be very difficult for an African-American cisgendered homosexual male rice-queen. Like I needed to tell any of you that. I"m sure we all sympathize with Donovan Trott, a gay black filmmaker with a sizable chip on his nicely toned shoulder. Last week, Trott penned ...
Looking back at my school years, attending majority-black public schools in L.A. during the early and mid-1980s, I"m not so much struck by the things I experienced, but by the things I did not. Not once did I encounter anything even remotely akin to the politically correct bullying that these ...
The recent terror attacks in Manchester and London have energized conspiracy mavens. Even a prominent CNN analyst suggested that the Manchester attack could be a "false flag" (to be fair, he was accusing evil white right-wingers of framing poor lovable Muslims, but hey"for conspiracy ...
Last month, in a column titled "The Left's Transracial Monster," I wrote about the slow but steady acceptance among leftists of "transracialism," the idea that someone who is not genetically of a certain race can "become" that race by sheer desire. I pointed out that ...
We"ve all heard Samuel Johnson's famous adage about patriotism being the last refuge of a scoundrel, but I"ve always believed it's racism that's the last refuge of a scoundrel. Race is what you cling to when you have no meaningful achievements of your own to display. It's a safe space for ...
Often, when people who know me primarily through my writing meet me in person, what stands out to them the most is that I rarely cuss in person. It can be a little disconcerting, because in my writing, I cuss a lot. But one-on-one, I"ll usually substitute "friggin"" and ...
