Category: Culture

I have to admit I’m getting a little bored with TV. So, here’s what I’ve got my DVR set to record. Tell me what AWESOME shows I’m missing? 12) Ugly Americans 11) Robot Chicken 10) Eagleheart 9) Workaholics 8) Futurama 7) Metalocalype 6) Aqua Something You Know Whatever 5) South Park 4) Hoarding: Buried Alive […]

There have been some stories of tremendous heroism that have come out of the Batman shootings in Aurora, Colorado. Not one, not two, but three different men died shielding their girlfriends from James Holmes. Then there’s Jamie Rohrs… Jamie Rohrs, of Aurora, Colorado, took his girlfriend Patricia Legarreta to a midnight showing of “The Dark […]

Via Townhall comes the news that the Muppets aren’t going to feature an episode where Miss Piggy chops someone in the face for stealing her delicious Chick Fil-A sandwich. “The Jim Henson Company has celebrated and embraced diversity and inclusiveness for over fifty years and we have notified Chick-Fil-A that we do not wish to […]

Americans have lost confidence in their institutions. They don’t trust the church, Congress, the President, their political parties, the media, the police, business, or for that matter, the Supreme Court as much as they used to in previous years. If you want to understand why that is, the way John Roberts handled the Obamacare decision […]

Massachusetts is going to put an assisted suicide law on the ballot in November. Backers of a ballot question allowing terminally ill patients to request and self-administer life-ending medications say they have gathered enough valid signatures to put a binding question before voters in November, and are now bracing themselves for a fight with the […]

David Brooks, being David Brooks, can’t say anything interesting or conservative even when he stumbles across a subject that’s tailor made for it. Over the past few months, writers from Charles Murray to Timothy Noah have produced alarming work on the growing bifurcation of American society. Now the eminent Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam and […]

Here’s a brilliant excerpt from David French at The Corner. All that changed in the late evening hours of November 22, 2007, in a moment of blinding clarity while sitting in the back of a Chinook helicopter flying over Diyala, Iraq. As I looked past the door gunner to see fires burning in the distance […]

Over at the Atlantic, Anne-Marie Slaughter wrote a much discussed piece yesterday called Why Women Still Can’t Have It All. Here are some excerpts, As the evening wore on, I ran into a colleague who held a senior position in the White House. She has two sons exactly my sons’ ages, but she had chosen […]

Because liberals aren’t as moral as other people, they don’t have any problem with letting terrorists, criminals, communists, and every miscreant under the sun around kids, as long as they lean to the left. So to a liberal, it’s fine for someone like Greta Hawkins to be the principal of a school. The principal of […]

You ever see one of those horror movies where things appear superficially normal, but out of the corner, you catch sight of disturbing things that let you know things just aren’t right? The shadow in the wrong place. A hint of movement, a twisted reflection in a window pane? That’s sort of like this column […]

There’s actually a column at Time, I kid you not, extolling the virtues of being 30 years old and living with your parents. Just how much of a bummer is it to be well past the age of adulthood and still living under your parent’s roof? As this living arrangement grows increasingly common, the perception […]

Some of us–at least those with “zipper problems”–are. Illustration: “New York City Busts Four Principals For Inappropriate Sexual Relations“.