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 ...

The Far East Rises in the West

The white/black test-score gap has been in the news since the 1960s, yet much like Mark Twain supposedly said about the weather, despite all the talk, nobody seems able to do much ...

Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog

Crimes of Passion, Golden Statues and Fashion

Although most critics lambasted this year's Oscar show, I roared with laughter. The jokes were funny. Some were even hilarious. It was a ginormous improvement on last year's ...

Sacha Baron Cohen

The Not-so-Great Dictator

So Jewish people don"€™t run Hollywood after all? That was my first snarky thought when I heard about the flap between comedian Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat, Talladega Nights) and ...

Brandon White

The Gang That Couldn’t Punch Straight

Is it ever permissible to find a "€œhate crime"€ funny? Granted, "€œfunny"€ is in the eye of the beholder, and I"€™d wager that any pair of eyeballs not irreparably ...

Anthony Quinn

The Great Hollywood Brownout

Many people claim that they pay no attention to race, but then along comes the Jeremy Lin story to prove again that most folks do. Wikipedia, that embodiment of 21st-century ...

It Shouldn”€™t Matter What They Were Thinking

This week, NATO personnel accidentally burned a pile of Korans while trying to dispose of incendiary propaganda. One account says the two workers who set the fire "€œwere ...

Love: Still Not Colorblind

Has the gender gap in interracial relationships changed over the decades?  As an urbanite in the 1980s and 1990s in LA and Chicago, it was hard not to notice trends among ...

Miley Cyrus

Semites, Sex, Drugs, Royals, and Rock “€™n”€™ Roll

CASTING STONES Oliver Stone's son has converted to Islam and is now the righteous Sean Ali Stone. The young Stone adopted his new religion last week in a bid to foster peace among ...

This Week in Atonement

Who says American manufacturing is dead? The nation has cornered the international market on making amends. Apologizing is a thriving industry. Call it Big Sorry. It wasn"€™t ...

Argumentum ad Fox Newsem

I haven"€™t had a sip of alcohol in thirty years and I"€™ve never been fond of hanging out with retarded people, but if one is foolish enough to establish any presence ...


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