Male Vanity Hits The Midwest

There have been many signs of the apocalypse as of late. We have a war in the birthplace of the Lord as was foretold in The Omen III, Global Warming is causing sheep to shrink as mentioned in Ecclesiastes, and the oil spill in the Gulf is either the "€œbehemoth of blackness"€ from Revelation ...

The Free Market: Uncool But Effective

When the Right wants to antagonize the Obamaniancs, they draw a picture of Batman's Joker with the word Socialist below it. This makes the Left particularly incredulous because they don"€™t see that word as a bad thing. As the Ethicist put it in last Sunday's New York Times, "€œHow does it ...

10 Things I”€™ve Learned About Writing For TV

The first thing you need to know about pitching TV shows is, you are not going to get a show. Television is 1,000 burn victims trying to seduce a supermodel; what was considered an OK deal ten years ago looks like a lottery win today. The good news is, you get paid for each rejection. In fact, many ...

United States vs. England

When Buchanan dared to ask who would assimilate better, a million Englishmen or a million Zulus, the Left pooped their pants. I still don"€™t understand why. What really should have browned their trousers was the fact that Pat had to go to the bottom of Africa to find someone less compatible than ...

The Innate Supremacism of the Anti-Racist Movement

I recently penned an article entitled “I Love Pakis” (links NSFW) about how adorable East Indian immigrants are. The title was purposely idiotic and this was made clear in the opening. “It’s obviously an ignorant word,” I explained. That’s what racial epithets ...

Miss Me Yet? An Interview with George W. Bush

Getting an interview with the president is virtually impossible. Getting an interview with the president when he’s no longer president—and his wife has a book out—and he’s writing his memoirs, is simply a matter of calling his agent and setting up a time. Today, George W. ...

The Best (and Worst) Languages in the World

Though there are over 7,000 living human languages, only a dozen of them actually matter. The majority of languages are holdovers from cultures that should have become extinct generations ago. Take Taiwanese for example. The Taiwanese were the indigenous people Chiang Kai-shek almost wiped out to ...

The Price of Bravery, Part II: Dinner With a Cop

Fast-thinking cops may have saved thousands of lives last weekend, so what better time to discuss the possibility they may be overpaid than now? Okay, maybe it's the worst time possible. The Strokes pulled "€œNYC Cops (Ain"€™t too Smart)"€ from their album after experiencing 9-11 and I"€™d ...

Malcolm McLaren: The King of Teen Rebellion

1946—2010 The whole idea of a teenager began in the 1950s. Before that 13—19 just meant "€œyoung man."€ Shortly after the birth of adolescence, came the birth of cool and you don"€™t have cool without rebellion. When Marlon Brando answered "€œWhaddya got?"€ to "€œWhat are ...

The Price of Bravery

Criticizing firefighters in New York City is like saying unicorns are boring and rainbows are gay, so we"€™re going to have to start this with an analogy. Ahem, what if someone saved your life a bunch of years ago and then asked if they could move in? Sure, right? Okay, what if they insisted ...