Don’t Stop at Juneteenth!

Happy Juneteenth! I hope you all had a lovely week celebrating the nation's newest federal holiday, which commemorates the end of slavery throughout the Confederacy. How could you not? The media was chock-a-block with commentators telling us what a fantastic, transformative event for our nation this was. But the media ignored the best part of ...


The White Punishment Project

Parkgoers enjoyed a heartwarming spectacle at Disneyland’s Anaheim location last weekend. It all started in extremely implausible circumstances, when a young black man felt that he and his daughter had been “disrespected,” ...

An Amnesty That I Can Support

In 1986, my high school drama teacher decided to give me a lesson in humility following a series of outbursts on my part challenging his authority (as arrogant as I may be now, I was way worse back then). He “sentenced” me to a week ...

Let’s All Tell More “White People” Jokes!

What’s the deal with white people? [the almost entirely white audience laughs] I mean, right—like, what the hell? [more laughter] Like, I mean, we’ve told nothing BUT “white people” jokes for the past two generations ...

Ending White Privilege: Tax It

Ed Murray, Seattle's überliberal mayor, proposed a 1.75-cent-per-ounce tax on all sugary drinks sold in the city. This would include the sodas plus energy drinks like Red Bull, fruit drinks, sweetened tea, and the type of bottled ...

Vladimir Putin

Mr. Putin Goes to Motown

Regardless of what dog you have in the Ukrainian turmoil, it is clear that Putin's plan is crude, transparent, and guaranteed to anger nearly everyone. Does anyone really believe that these "€œUkrainian separatists"€ are native ...

Mudgeon at the Bat

The curious affair of Fred Mudgeon began in 2015 when he, age 67 and largely blind, walked onto the field of the Washington Miquetoasts, the capital's football team, and announced that he wanted to try out for quarterback. If ever there ...

Tackling Asian Privilege

Amidst the hubris of the pope calling it quits and Miss Delaware relinquishing her sash due to porn allegations, it's important we take a step back and discuss the elephant in the room"€”namely, racism. While the world collapses ...

Thawing out the Neanderthals

If Harvard geneticist George Church gets his way, we may be seeing Neanderthals in the not-so-distant future"€”without having to first drink a quart of Old Overcoat.  The kerfuffle arose when Der Spiegel interviewed Church about his ...

A Five-Point Plan to Save the GOP

After the recent electoral debacle, Republican journalists and neocon news pundits have been discussing the roads to recovery for their battered party. One path that I"€™m sure will never be taken is trying to win back the libertarian ...


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