Culture
Despite the casual loathing of Jews everywhere, despite the millennia old blood libel, the Third Reich was only able to make that loathing lethal...
Hi, what are you looking for?
Despite the casual loathing of Jews everywhere, despite the millennia old blood libel, the Third Reich was only able to make that loathing lethal...
…AND I’M GONNA SAY IT NOW. I recently hired the son of a friend to do a bit of cleanup of the mess that...
FIRST AS CAUTION, SECOND AS CALAMITY. I am an American, and to once again paraphrase and borrow from the work of another apparently difficult...
Oh, Werewolves, where do I even begin with this howling disaster? Directed by Steven C. Miller, the story, if you can call it...
…STAYED FOR THE BULLSHIT. The Roaring Twenties. Well, no; not exactly. And now, if you’ll forgive my pedantry… …The phrase started out as Damon...
I hurt someone’s feelings on FACEBOOK, a few days ago, through the reckless expression of an opinion, based on that time honored concept, contempt...
*Literally translated, “When the Messiah Comes.” In actual usage, a sarcastic/dismissive response, to, for example, “When can I/we_____?” or “When will you/they______?” in reply,...
I gather, from a Facebook post this morning, that another cartoonist has joined the ranks of those afflicted by Shmuckholm Syndrome. Oh, well. In...
…AND, OF COURSE, TRIGGER WARNINGS I spend considerable time in hotel rooms, eighty days a year on average. This past month, I spent ten...
No era, no civilization, no society has ever had a premium on mediocrity. It has always been with us—or one must assume this is...
I recently made the tactical mistake, not to mention the social gaffe, of disagreeing with someone on his page, in regard to a post,...
I have been party of late to talk about the decline of the American sense of humor. This situation is of course wide open...
When and if there is a future, a time in which there is enough distance and detachment to observe, analyze and write with dispassion...