A Substantial Island

The first thing I noticed about the headline of a recent story on the Guardian website was its grammar: Nauru, Second refugee at Australian detention centre sets themselves ...

The Bubbafly Effect

Growing up in L.A. in the late "€™60s and early "€™70s, I certainly had my fill of hippies (and then some). And I have to say, the hippies of that time weren"€™t all bad. ...

Comedians: Doing the Jobs Happy Americans Won”€™t Do

Comedians hate Donald Trump with so much vitriol, it looks like they"€™re siding with Bernie purely out of spite. Obviously both sides have their supporters and it's not unusual ...

Bittersweet Charity

Having, like most journalists, made a career of lamenting the state of the world, I find that I am easily subject to feelings of guilt. To read the corpus of my work you might ...

Future Letter From a Socialist to President Trump

It's 2019 and the fact that you and Vice President Cruz have decided to run for a second term deeply disturbs those of us who still care about this country. Like many true ...

Seeing Eye to Eye

Of all the subjects of academic study, psychology is probably the most useless, or at least the most useless by comparison with its pretensions to use. In a century and a half, it ...

5 Quotes Overheard at Christmas

The Christian holiday based on the birth of Jesus and made even more kid-friendly by Northern European folklore is upon us. The odds are pretty high you"€™re one of the nearly ...

What’s Really Behind the San Bernardino Shooting: Paternity Leave

The first thing I thought when I heard the names of Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, was "€œThey sound like new parents."€ Sure enough, the couple had a baby ...

One More Feather Duster

La Rochefoucauld said that it is easier to give good advice than to take it, to which he might have added that it is also easier to agree with good advice than to act on it. ...

Mugging Me Softly

Last Tuesday night I was walking down a poorly lit Brooklyn street en route to meet a friend for dinner when suddenly I noticed a black male strolling alongside me. He wasn"€™t ...

What Kind of Buddhism is This, Otto?

"€œWhat kind of Buddhism is this, Otto?"€ In A Fish Called Wanda (1988), Kevin Kline's felonious "€œOtto"€"€”as stupid as he is sexy"€”preps for yet another ...

The War on Women Is Real

The "€œWar on Women"€ is a term usually used to describe Republican policies and their effects on the fairer sex. The right denies such a thing exists, but let's stop kidding ...

A No-Jerk Reaction

Millennials aren"€™t getting laid and what's worse, they don"€™t want to. Even the ones in relationships aren"€™t having sex. Their parents are having more sex than they are ...

The Falling Sun

There is a very disturbing trend going on in Japan that nobody is talking about. Every day, thousands of poor, uneducated white Americans are sneaking into the country from South ...

The Reality Disconnect

Geraldo and Ann Coulter recently had a debate about immigration that was fun to watch, but Washington Heights came up as an example of "€œimmigrant vitality."€ It was wedged ...

The War on Comedy

An Asian dude walks into a bar. "€œPour me a jigger, nigger,"€ he says to the black bartender. "€œCome on, man,"€ the bartender responds, "€œthat's not cool."€ The ...


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