When someone remotely non-liberal agrees to appear on The Daily Show, they are knowingly throwing themselves to the wolves. It's dozens of people and thousands of dollars devoted ...
The hubbub surrounding last week's announcement that "Underground Railroad" conductor Harriet Tubman would be movin" on up to the obverse of the twenty-dollar bill led ...
When #TheDress became a viral sensation last year, you had people who were absolutely positive the dress was gold and white while others looking at the same picture were just as ...
I"ve been writing for this site since 2008 and am very thankful to be a part of the Takimag family. It didn"t even occur to me to jump ship when the Derb was lynched and ...
The "Grim Sleeper" went on trial in L.A. last week. Fifty-seven-year-old Lonnie David Franklin Jr. is accused of murdering at least eleven women (and one man) in a string ...
Great news, anarchists, you have your martyr. LaVoy Finicum has just been shot by the Feds after a two-month standoff with authorities. He represented ranchers who were being ...
Last week I decided to "binge-watch" the hit Netflix series Making a Murderer. I mean, I needed something to do with my time as I nursed the shattered femur I incurred ...
What has the world come to when a Jew can"t exploit the Holocaust? And not just any Jew, but the prime minister of Israel. Oy gevalt! As most of the world knows by now, ...
Joshua Goldberg is a walking stereotype of an Internet troll (Fat? Check. Lives with his mom? Check. No social life? Check). Through his complicated network of online personas, ...
Doctor Johnson wisely advised writers to strike out those passages in their own work that they found particularly fine; but the opposite of this advice is followed each week by ...
I call "false advertising" on the Washingtonian. Its July 24 piece by Benjamin Freed promises that we"ll "Meet the Guy Who's Protesting a Maryland Theater's ...
The horrific mass shooting in a Charleston church is bringing out the best in all of us. I might be using the word "best" incorrectly. Left-wing pundits are blaming ...
Of all the contentious issues on the cultural and political scene today, the "draw Muhammad" controversy seems to bring out the most unsavory types, on all sides. It's ...
There comes a time in any man's life when he wants to accumulate no more possessions, but rather disembarrass himself of those he already has. For otherwise he is in danger of ...
First, a follow up to last week's column: Despite being presented with (singular) evidence to the contrary, I clung weakly to my belief that few Professional Conservatives"¢ ...
"I love Anne Frank humor as much as the next guy" is a line I could never get away with. Fortunately, I"m not the one who said it. The quote is courtesy of Jill ...