Oscar Pistorius

Perfectly Able to Kill

Double amputee Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius has been charged with murdering his girlfriend, demolishing a sweet sporting mythos that had proved inspirational for physically disabled individuals and the institutionally disabled nation of South Africa. Pistorius, nicknamed "€œBlade Runner"€ ...

Christopher Dorner

The Strange Moral Compass of Christopher Dorner

Chris Dorner thinks he's a highly moral individual. A crusader for justice. A righter of wrongs. Maybe even a hero. At least that's the impression I get from reading the intense, sharply written, yet frequently absurd manifesto he allegedly posted on Facebook last week. Dorner"€”AKA ...

The Importance of Gender-Neutral Public Restrooms for Bisexual Space Aliens

We’ve all been repeatedly told that gender is only a “social construct.” We are also asked to believe that this particular social construct just so happened"€”what are the chances?"€”to have been artificially constructed almost precisely the same way across the globe in every ...

Kevin Wallin AKA

Religion, Perversion, and Whiteness

Catholic-bashers worldwide have new reason to bask in schadenfreude at the recent arrest of former Connecticut pastor Kevin Wallin, AKA “Monsignor Meth,” on drug-trafficking charges. Except for pedophilia, the alleged details in Wallin’s sordid saga combine nearly all the ...

Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King’s Golden Legacy of Nonviolence

On Friday during a speech in Florida, slain civil-rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr.'s far fatter, balder, and lighter-skinned son urged Americans to break free from their wretchedly shameful "€œculture of violence."€ The next day, a Mississippi man was shot in the chest during a parade ...

From War Whoops to Whining

As someone who honors the rich "€™n"€™ noble tapestry of Native American history and culture, I"€™m sorely vexed that there are still several major sports teams whose names and logos lampoon Injuns in ways that would be unacceptable if directed at any other ethnic group. It's curious that ...

Here Comes Honey Jigaboo Boo

Cable TV's Oxygen channel was founded in part by Oprah Winfrey, but it appears to have finally jumped the shvartze with a proposed program called All My Babies"€™ Mamas. Originally slated to appear in the spring, the one-hour special now hovers in reality-show limbo due to a torrent of protest ...

Lena Dunham

2012: The Year in PC

If this isn"€™t the most easily offended civilization in world history, I’m glad I missed whichever one was worse. Still, our modern thought police"€”those prigs and fussbudgets and censors and tattletales and hall monitors and snitches and meddlers and natural-born teacher's ...

Toss Another Bag of Coal on the Christmas Fire

Dear Santa Claus: It's been well over forty years since I wrote you a letter, but I don"€™t want you to think I"€™m an anti-Santite. It's just that I"€™ve been busy. You see me when I"€™m sleeping. You know when I"€™m awake. You know if I"€™ve been bad or good. To be frank, I ...

Gunsville, USA

As I lollygagged around the packed convention floor at the Eastman Gun Show in Gainesville, GA amid thousands of guns and what seemed like millions of bullets, it occurred to me that I"€™ve never heard of a mass shooting at a gun show. This was on Saturday afternoon, a day after 20-year-old Adam ...