Burly-and-bearded country singer Trace Adkins ruffled all the usual feathers and bruised all the usual feelings when he dared to wear a Confederate battle flag earpiece in full ...
Why do we still read Henry Louis Mencken? He was mostly a columnist, and columns are usually forgotten the day after they are published. One of the main reasons we still read ...
When in the States, I keep my TV tuned exclusively to white ...
"White People Problems" is a loaded term that combines a facetious reference to white privilege with the accusation that we"re all pampered ingrates. Never mind that ...
The gossip is that the Washington Post is in bad trouble and losing money like only Tina Brown can. Not that Brown has anything to do with the Post. Tina wastes zillions of ...
OK, three months are up. Time for another potpourri of unconnected items. I can’t claim any thematic thread this time. Like the universe in current cosmological models, my ...
About a year ago an Italian judge ordered me, as a condemned criminal, to perform 166 hours of unpaid "lavoro socialmente utile" (socially useful work). I kept putting it ...
If only Romney had campaigned against Elmo instead of Big Bird. Then again, the sordid details of Sesame Street puppeteer Kevin Clash's alleged dalliances with four then-underage ...
As the leftist juggernaut blithely steamrollers its way over what's left of this country, its blinkered acolytes have smugly convinced themselves that they are on "the right ...
Just a note of cautionary darkness, there, listeners. I didn't mean to spoil your ...
The unfortunately named Nadra Kareem Nittle recently penned a popular article instructing the ignorant about how to deal with "racist" relatives. The article was so gay ...
There has been an outbreak of realism recently. I noticed it first in the postelection commentary. The normal thing is that following an election, the thumb-sucking commentariat ...
Joe Wright first directed Keira Knightley in a decent remake of Pride and Prejudice in 2005. Two years later, Wright and Knightley almost hit the Academy Award jackpot with the ...
It was 1948, and the great Joe DiMaggio was injured most of the season. Tommy Henrich and Charlie Keller were in the outfield and a young Yogi Berra was behind the plate. But even ...
You know how "If you remember the 60s, you weren"t there"? Here's mine: "It's not "genocide" if you"re still here." Sorry, disgruntled African ...
I woke up this morning with a bit of a chest cold and decided not to blame the Jews for it. Some mystical yearning deep inside my heart"I believe it's called "common ...