Commencement speeches often give great advice on how to succeed, whom to befriend, and whom to love, but they never focus on the importance of hatred. I believe that choosing whom ...

GSTAAD—My chalet lies far above the village of Gstaad, but I happened to be en ville when I heard the pleasant sounds of an Oom-pah band and saw the Swiss burghers dressed up in ...

It’s been three months since I did a potpourri of unconnected items, so I shall indulge myself again. This may get to be a quarterly habit, I don’t know. Who can think ...

I turned on the TV and saw a new reality show with an intriguing premise: How big of a head start does a white woman need to outrun a black man? While skinny women frantically ...

While the world had its eyes trained on London's Olympics, a great many were staring at the planet Mars. On August 5, workers at the JPL's Mars Science Laboratory breathed a sigh ...

Taken overall 36 percent of immigrant households use welfare, against 23 percent of native ...

GSTAAD—If the London Olympics do not go down in history as The Crying Games, I will perform a sex act on a Mae West hologram in Times Square as the clock strikes 12 on New ...

Back on July 19th I wrote about taking the family shotgun apart. Curious readers have been emailing to ask if I ever succeeded in getting the thing back together. Yes! The ...

For fifteen years, I"€™ve been writing long analyses of how the data found in Olympic results can help us answer fundamental questions about nature v. nurture, human ...

It has to be evident to all thinking people by now that racism is the new witchcraft. Once you"€™re branded with the Scarlet "€œR,"€ some people do not regard it as immoral ...

Who needs a Narnia-style wardrobe when you can drop into an alternate universe just by visiting the drugstore? I simply stand in the hair-care aisle, facing an escarpment of ...

I am an alcoholic, or what is called an alcoholic, and I still am an alcoholic, so they say, even though I gave up booze nearly one year ago. Sure, I drank dangerous amounts of ...

Sam Flambee of Minnesota, recently released from a ten-year sentence for arson, has applied to become a ...

The USA, I"€™m sorry to see, is currently behind China in gold medals, 17-12. And oh dear, there’s Britain, with only two gold medals. It’s only Wednesday night, ...

Gore Vidal was as good as it gets where writing is concerned. I can"€™t think of a single awkward sentence he ever wrote, and he wrote a hell of a lot for someone from a very ...

I"€™ve often felt that the War on Terror was the best thing that happened to globetrotting drug addicts since the days before bags were inspected at all. After 9/11, the ...