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 "shelling a city ...
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, ...
Nomophobia, or "no-mobile-phobia," sounds as stupid as luposlipaphobia. At least the latter"the fear of being chased by wolves on slick kitchen linoleum while wearing ...
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 ...
It's stressful to be hated. It goes against our instincts. We want to be loved. But Andrew Breitbart was ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Is it ever permissible to find a "hate crime" funny? Granted, "funny" is in the eye of the beholder, and I"d wager that any pair of eyeballs not irreparably ...
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 ...
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 "were ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...