Eggs Over Black

Activists set a new low in terms of abject stupidity this week by haranguing brunching millennials in that known fascist stronghold we call Manhattan. Called "€œBlack ...

Domestic Furrorism

Excuse my language, but what the heck kind of world do we live in where a bunch of adults can"€™t get together for good times and fellowship dressed as anthropomorphic animals ...

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Gimmedat

When then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid saw fit to ram the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (now affectionately known as ...

Bad Book Week

Banned Book Week has come and gone, and once again the flood of articles celebrating this dubious event has proven two things. First, whatever its original purpose, the event has ...

President Obama

Barack Obama, Outside Agitator

In his U.N. address, President Obama listed a parade of horrors afflicting our world: “Russian aggression in Europe,” “terrorism in Syria and Iraq,” rapes ...

Against Stuff!

You knew that climate change could be blamed for any kind of weather, but did you know that the underlying cause is not, in fact, carbon emissions but racism? That was one of ...

Workers of the World, Goodbye

There was something pathetically nostalgic at the specter earlier this month of fast-food workers demanding compensation to the tune of $15 an hour for performing jobs that ...

America’s Martyrs

Er, no offense to people being beheaded in the Middle East but, uh, what are you doing there? James Foley had been abducted before. In 2011 he was detained while reporting on ...

Leveling the Playing Field (With Explosives)

There is only one real political question: Are people equal or not? All political distinctions"€”whether left or right, individualistic or collectivist, libertarian or ...

A Deadly Strain of PMS

You know that one time a month when you"€™re arguing with a lady friend and she says something that makes your neck recoil in confusion? You"€™ll stop the fight for a second ...

The End, or Something Like It

On August 2, 2014, the Obama Administration allowed the first of two American health care workers who had contracted the Ebola virus back into the U.S. There is no logical ...

Activists for a Stupider Tomorrow

Arizona State University, perennial favorite for "€œnation's least prestigious school,"€ is showing America why: students can now earn extra credit in a Women and Gender ...

Tweeting Our Way to Justice

Whether or not it was Julie Burchill who described Stephen Fry as "€œa stupid person's idea of a clever person,"€ it's a finer quip than most of the labored ...

Fourteen Drugs and Pot

Now that Colorado has legalized marijuana (though not for 4th graders), drugs are back in the news, and that inevitably brings the discussion to the decriminalization of all ...

The Gross Domestic Pissants

A small item in one of those free newspapers that end up on the seats of the world's subway systems caught my attention yesterday. It was in the Paris Métro; I read it while ...

The Soul of a Curmudgeon

Ah, the guttering candle of civilization! How I love it. The dwindling flames warm the cockles of a curmudgeon's heart (whatever precisely a cockle may be): the galloping rot, the ...


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