As a small child, one of my favorite cartoon characters was that brave sword-fighting shell-bearer Touché Turtle, whom I used to prance around the garden pretending to be, hitting other equally violent neighborhood kids with toy plastic blades as I went. It now transpires this habit made me ...
As I write these words, the Pope lies gravely ill in hospital, even less capable of breathing than George Floyd once was, and probably every bit as doped up. Perhaps Pope Francis will pull through—it wouldn’t be the first miraculous resurrection in Christian history—although given current ...
They say that laughter is the best medicine. Personally, I prefer penicillin. If you found that joke funny, then I may very well just have saved you from suicide. If you didn’t, then I may very well just have driven you to it. Prescribing jokes to sick people sounds like a bad joke in and of ...
All knowledgeable persons are knowledgeable alike. All ignorant persons are ignorant in their own way. So I discovered during the days when, as a former high school English teacher, I once encountered a student who honestly thought Tolstoy had written a book called Anna Kournikova. But then, I also ...
If there was a street near you that was filled with Muslim immigrants raping all the women, who would you blame? The Muslims, or the street? The French city of Nantes is currently in the grip of what is generally known as an “immigrant crime wave,” a phrase that obscures which particular ...
Last December saw the twentieth anniversary of the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami that killed 230,000 across Southeast Asia. Seeing the emotive scenes of carnage, devastation, and death upon their television screens, the good people of the West dipped into their own pockets and kindly sent the victims out ...
A British court has just made a surprising judgment. According to reports, David Spencer, a 56-year-old soccer fan, was convicted and fined £1,375 for hurling racial abuse at a 15-year-old brown boy in the stands at a game, after allegedly chanting the impolite invective “You’re a P***. ...
Last week it was annual Holocaust Memorial Day—ironically, I personally failed to remember this fact, otherwise I would have written this present column to fit in with it. However, I was soon reminded of the occasion after being alerted in the media to the highly surprising information that the ...
The Gaîté Lyrique theater, in Paris’ third arrondissement, has a long and très glorieux history dating back to 1862, once playing host to operettas by the likes of Jacques Offenbach, but today the establishment seems to prefer staging live-action exercises in the Theater of the ...
As already reported on Takimag, there are plenty of lunatic theories out there at the moment about what really started all those California wildfires currently raging. Jewish space lasers? A sinister attempt to destroy and cover up evidence of the crimes of P. Diddy, or the true origin of all those ...
