Theresa May

The Merits of Nepotism and Boasting

There was once a medical student of my acquaintance who consistently scored lower marks on multiple-choice examination papers than could have been expected by chance, which I ...

Witchcraft: The Selfie of the Soul

Like practically everyone else, I look at my phone or turn on my computer as soon as I wake to find out what has happened in the world in my temporary absence from it. You can ...

Lose Yourself

For a number of years I have been fighting a lonely one-man (or should I say one-person?) battle against self-esteem—not my own, of course, because I have just the right amount, ...

Unfit to a T

Sitting in two airports last week, in Paris and Riga, it suddenly occurred to me that I had not seen a single person who was smartly, let alone elegantly, dressed (I do not ...

Asia Argento

The Tart Is Deceitful Above All Things

Just as there’s a tremendous difference between acting ethically and feeling the need to announce to the world that you’re an ethical person, there is also a massive ...

Barely Scratching the Surface

For the past three months or so I have suffered from, or at least experienced, a condition called discoid eczema on the instep of the sole of my right foot. It is always ...

How Uncanny Was My Valley?

Within the conventions of English drag comedy, the most familiar character is what the Monty Python troupe dubbed "€œthe pepperpot"€: a frumpy, lumpy menopausal matron, ...

Male Bonding at an All-Female College

A group of biologically female good ol"€™ boys gathers every week at Oakland's girls-only Mills College to discuss how oppressed they feel by gender-specific pronouns. These ...

Shulamith Firestone

Feminism’s Rotting Corpse

I was certain I still had my copy of the book on the same shelf as my long-untouched copies of The Second Sex, The Female Eunuch, and The Feminine Mystique. After learning of the ...

Digging Up My Roots With a Cyber-Shovel

In The Odyssey, Theoclymenus asks of Telemachus, "€œAmong men, who are you? Tell me also of your city and parents."€ Old-fashioned folks who haven’t been poisoned by ...

Just Another Fairytale Lesbian Blogger From Damascus

The eminently credible mainstream media was all aflame last Tuesday with reports that a prominent lesbian blogger in Syria had been captured by armed-and-hairy secret police who ...

A Writer’s Life

"€˜Never heard of you..."€™. What generosity of spirit.  Some thirteen years ago now, the fellow had marched across a busy airport departure hall in order to deliver his ...

Missing: British Identity

"€œThis is our country, our land, and our lifestyle. If you are not happy"€”then Leave."€ At last a politician in possession of testicles and a backbone. By definition ...

All You Need Is… A Slap

"€œMake a child smile"€”kill a counselor."€ A passable joke and an admirable sentiment. Face it, a kid cannot even fart these days without being offered counseling or ...

Southern With a Vengeance

I’m often asked where I got the name “Southern Avenger.” For starters, it was a rip-off of a popular 90’s conservative talk radio host named Ken Hamblin, ...


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