Kris Humphries and Kim Kardashian

Stars v. Jocks: The Great Dummy Derby

Who's easier to mock"€”athletes or celebrities? It's a neck-and-neck race, each one stretching to be more idiotic than the other. When celebrities and athletes come together, ...

Land of the Setting Sun

Sunday was the first anniversary of the 9.0 earthquake off the east coast of Japan that produced the 45-foot-high tidal wave that hit Fukushima Prefecture. Twenty thousand ...

Three Flavors of Modern Anti-Americanism

As I perused the program for the Philadelphia Society's national meeting in April, featuring wall-to-wall denunciations of "€œAmerica and Her Detractors,"€ I wondered whether ...

Give the Bigots a Pill

Get in line, all ye racists"€”they have a pill for you now. Last week, several supposedly respectable websites erupted in a blinding sunshower of bigot-hating joy at a recent ...

The Value of the Guiding Hand

Leaning over the bar in London's Union Jack Club drinking rum, I stood on legs of flesh and bone. The soldier next to me stood on legs of plastic and metal. He"€™d lost three ...

How to Tap the Missus

When I was 13 I was looking at an old Penthouse out behind school and Dale Aiken said, "€œThis is nothing. When you"€™re married, you get to see your wife's tits anytime you ...

Rocky Marciano and Joe Louis

Boxing: From Sweet Science to Sour

Briefly home from boarding school back in 1951, I went to a bar with a phony draft card, ordered a beer, and watched Rocky Marciano knock out my idol Joe Louis. Joe was 37 and ...

Life at Half-Speed

I’ll admit it: I was apprehensive about the chemo. Some decades ago a female relative of mine"€”not long married, infant daughter"€”was diagnosed with cancer and ...

Tehran Comes to Hollywood

The Iranian film A Separation, a domestic drama-turned-courtroom mystery, is among the most acclaimed of recent movies. It won a host of film festival awards, the Best Foreign ...

Glitter From the Gutter

Not much is happening in the celebrity gutter this week unless you count the big pregnancy rumors from Snooki of Jersey Shore fame. Her boyfriend Jionni (nice spelling) LaValle is ...

How a Soldier Thinks

There are over seven thousand dead in Syria now. What are the Syrian soldiers thinking? The last post Marie Colvin made before her death tells us they"€™re "€œshelling a city ...

Davy Jones

Don”€™t Stop Daydream Believin”€™

They were completely fake, they were mostly unlovable, other people wrote their songs"€”and they were still better than The Beatles. I don"€™t give The Monkees much thought, ...

Smash Nomophobia!

Nomophobia, or "€œno-mobile-phobia,"€ sounds as stupid as luposlipaphobia. At least the latter"€”the fear of being chased by wolves on slick kitchen linoleum while wearing ...

Dmitri Nabokov

Skiing With a Lady Named Fear

GSTAAD—It’s early in the silvery morning light as I look out my window up here in the heights. A batallion of wispy white clouds hides behind the surrounding mountains—a ...

Andrew Breitbart: 1969-2012

It's stressful to be hated. It goes against our instincts. We want to be loved. But Andrew Breitbart was ...

How England Helped Start the Great War

A vastly underexplored topic is the British government's role in greasing the skids for World War I. Until recently it was hard to find scholars who would dispute the culturally ...


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