You will be missed, Hugo Chavez. The world has lost a man who was larger than life, and we don"€™t only mean your Body Mass Index. We will always love and admire you, even though you are now technically dead. Because we absorb most ...

The Grim Reaper thinned the herd of baby-boomer entertainment icons this summer. Ernest Borgnine, Andy Griffith, Phyllis Diller, William Windom, and"€”ahem"€”Scott McKenzie made up a huge chunk of 1960s entertainment. The first four ...

Gore Vidal was as good as it gets where writing is concerned. I can"€™t think of a single awkward sentence he ever wrote, and he wrote a hell of a lot for someone from a very privileged background who could do more enjoyable things ...

Ray Bradbury is dead. For the past twenty years I have dreaded writing those words. The effusive homages to a man who was arguably America's greatest living writer are in full flood; this is one of the few times they are deserved. ...

It's stressful to be hated. It goes against our instincts. We want to be loved. But Andrew Breitbart was ...

A perennial golden nugget of maudlin Christmas fare is the famous 1897 editorial in The New York Sun where an omniscient editor reassures an eight-year-old girl that “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.” Little Virginia’s ...

From Bono the rock star to Bozo the clown, Obama is polling lower than the teats on a pregnant weenie dog. Obama has been relegated to speaking at high schools and fire stations. His recent bus tour arrived at the first stop in the ...

I hate when a famous junkie dies and we get empty gestures like, “We just lost a legend the likes of which we will never see again.” Why not say, “That cute English girl who became the personification of a walking mess took the ...

I’ve had a longstanding instinctive loathing of those who perpetrate gimmick art, a genre of which Lucian Freud was a master. His art was as sordid as his person, reflecting his loathing of human nature in general and women in ...

If there is one thing the ultra-Left likes better than stories about fascism, it is stories about police brutality. The very best modern morality tales conjoin fascism and the fuzz/filth/flocs in an axis of awfulness, against which all ...

1946—2010 The whole idea of a teenager began in the 1950s. Before that 13—19 just meant "€œyoung man."€ Shortly after the birth of adolescence, came the birth of cool and you don"€™t have cool without rebellion. When ...