Modern school shootings are an exceptionally abhorrent phenomenon that we got along just fine without for the first couple of centuries of U.S. history. So, it’s wholly reasonable to want them gone. It’s not like America was suffering from any lack of the beneficial side effects of school shootings before the man with the brain tumor climbed the ...
Like all lies uncorrected, the #BlackLivesMatter movement has become a religion with evangelists, disciples, heretics, opportunists, and enforcers. First, the media spread the Word. Those outlets that couldn"t afford to send ...
There seems to be growing anti-German feeling in France, at least if what I read is anything to go by (which it might not be, of course). For example, a book with the title Bismarck Herring (The German Poison) is on sale everywhere. It ...
In journalism, "trend pieces" are like the weather: Everyone complains about them " and there"ll be a new one around any minute. (One probably written by some low-level reporter who was just moaning about how hacky the ...
Muggeridge's Law, indeed. The Punch editor (and all around crusty old fart) observed late-ish in the 20th century that modern life's absurdities rendered the satirist's role redundant. But too many self-appointed satirists out there ...
BREAKING NEWS!!!"A bomb may...or may not...have gone off near a Colorado Springs office of the NAACP last week, and it may...or may not...have been a hate crime. I"ll provide further details as they come in. The alleged racial ...
Not three years ago, in these very virtual pages, I mourned the extinction of the loony-bin luminary. Bedlam and Bellevue were once bursting with faux Napoleons and ersatz Anastasias. These days, the lunatics"exiled from the few ...
A video that shows a Jewish woman being sexually harassed while walking on New York City streets has engendered tremendous outrage"not so much for the fact that she was sexually harassed, but because there weren"t enough white ...
I slept through the only riot I was ever sent to cover as a reporter. Having traveled a long way I was very tired, and by the time I woke the riot was almost over. Still, I was able to describe with some vividness the acrid smell of ...
Every time I hear that we live under a "patriarchy," I close my eyes, click my heels, snap my fingers, and wish that it were true. But when I open my eyes, it's obvious that men in the West are demoralized and in a pitiful state ...
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