Charles Whitman

Monsters of Egotism

Mass shootings have been a recognized phenomenon in the US since Charles Whitman went up the tower at the U. of Texas with a rifle in 1966 and entered Baby Boomer lore.  That's ...

Unsexing the Language

Yesterday I stopped by a Methodist church that was having a charity Christmas-tree sale. A man told me the sale was over for the day and then wished me "€œHappy ...

Matt Drudge

The Drudge Paradox

"I just report the news." That phrase may not have the currency of "The check's in the mail," but it's all too familiar as every journalist's favorite alibi. They always trot ...

Johnny Depp as John Dillinger in Pubic Enemies

The Dead Soul of Adam Lanza

“No set of laws can eliminate evil from the world, or prevent every senseless act of violence in our society.” So said President Obama in words of comfort in Newtown. ...

Where Have All the Christians Gone?

Just in time for Christmas, the latest British census shows that since 2001, when 72% of the UK's denizens claimed to be Christians, the quotient has dropped thirteen percentage ...

Losing My Dream House to the Apocalypse

If it were not for the Apocalypse which is due any day now I would be the owner at last of a large stone farmhouse perched in the gentle foothills of the Apennines and surrounded ...

Kill Boomer Scum!

Youth is full of folly, sure, but at least this is the right kind of ...

Oliver Stone

’Tis the Season Not to Be a Commie

Religion is in decline, tradition takes a backseat to fashion, and same-sex marriage is now looked upon as normal. What were previously taboos—swearing on television, watching ...

Psy

When Prejudices Collide

Did you ever have two different news stories collide in your head, leaving both with dangling fenders, shattered headlights, and leaking radiator fluid? I did, just this ...

Lindsay Lohan

Loathing Lindsay Lohan

One of my minor irritants is seeing weak people intentionally set up to fail. It happens more often in Hollywood than anywhere else on Earth. When a production tanks, a troubled ...

Our Balls, Ourselves

Brothers, gents, countrymen, and assorted randy lads and bucks galloping like centaurs through fields of feminine flowers and wantonly squirting their seed the world over, I ...

The Rodents of Amsterdam

As Pastor Martin Niemöller famously wrote: First they came for the loud, obnoxious, drunken neighbors who defecated on my front lawn, tossed their beer bottles through my ...

Jeffrey Hillman

Romantic Nation

John Boehner has been seeking advice on the nation's fiscal management from Snookie, Pee Wee Herman, and Pastor Terry ...

Coney Island, N.Y.

10 Facts About Brooklyn Natives

While bemoaning Brooklyn's yuppification, many say, "€œI miss old New York,"€ but the same way Germans idolize Native Americans they"€™ve never met, outsiders worship ...

Maria Callas and Elsa Maxwell

Hostesses With the Mostest (and Leastest)

Why do so many respectable newspapers and magazines go weak at the knees the moment an unreadable autobiography of some illiterate rock star is published? I guess no hack, however ...

Dusting off the Crystal Ball

Predictions are in the air, or at least in the dwindling little pocket of air from which I breathe, down here in my diving bell a thousand feet beneath the surface of Liberalism ...


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