"Mama Tried" is a popular prison tattoo and a tear-jerking Merle Haggard country ballad. The 1968 classic tells the tale of Merle breaking his mother's heart by going to jail: Mama tried to raise me better but her pleading, I denied/ That leaves only me to blame ‘cos Mama tried. It ...
In 1831, Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville came to America. Four years later, he published an outsider's perspective of the culture that remained the gold standard for exactly 176 years. Time's up, Alex. I"m an Englishman born to Scottish parents and raised in French Canada, and after four days ...
Online reviews for Disney Cruises read like effusive testimonials from someone who has been healed by the Lord's power. But after returning from the Disney Magic cruise with my wife, two-year-old son, and four-year-old daughter, I feel more sickened than healed. It's been four days since we came ...
There's nothing more frustrating than arguing with old people and hearing them bark sarcastically, "Oh, you got it from the Internet"how reliable." The Internet is the world's largest library, you asshole. Have you been to a local library lately? Any pizza pie of a theory can make it to ...
The first thing I think when I meet smart, rational Christians is, "fags." How can anyone say being gay is something over which we have any control? The idea of a gay man being "cured" and eagerly sinking his face into a woman's crotch is as absurd as the thought of me fellating 100 ...
With Egypt's melodramatic implosion, many Americans are asking, "What has this got to do with us?" The short answer: everything. We propped up Mubarak because he's good for Israel, yet most Egyptians want Israel gone. So why not take all our troops out of everywhere? Why not cease all aid ...
A new book called Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses just proved what I"ve been screaming since I graduated: The college experience has become a total waste of time. The book revolves around research that shows the only thing professors care about is their own research ...
There are really two New Yorks. There's the one Giuliani cleaned up where you can walk around Times Square all night without running into so much as a jaywalker. Then there's East New York, the place all the criminals went when they were kicked out of the first New York. This notoriously ...
The English Defence League (EDL) is a white-power sect of the British National Party that hates Jews, gays, and blacks but REALLY hates Muslims. In short, they"re Nazis. It's easy to find images of their supporters Sieg Heiling and standing next to Nazi flags. Yet they claim they aren"t ...
The night Obama was elected, the streets around my Brooklyn home were hysterical with glee. People were climbing up streetlights and screaming "OBAMA!" at the top of their lungs as if he wasn"t just another politician. It was a riot of naïveté, and its stupidity stupefied me. ...
