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If only Morley Safer of 60 Minutes were here to give this the public derision it so richly deserves: On Thursday, three years after Banksy’s act of destructive creation, the anonymous buyer put up for auction “Girl With Balloon,” or rather, its successor — the retitled “Love Is in the Bin.” After nine bidders battled… Read more.
I don’t know about you, but even in my “love-them-and-leave-them” prime, it never crossed my mind to cruise gay bars to pick up girls. Truth be told, it would’ve struck me as arrogant and anti-social to go to one, only to reject natural overtures from gay men to pick me up. And, with all due… Read more.
Jon Gruden stepped down Monday as the coach of the Las Vegas Raiders football team hours after The New York Times detailed emails in which he had made homophobic and misogynistic remarks, following an earlier report of racist statements about a union leader [‘Dumboriss Smith has lips the size of michellin tires,’ Gruden wrote about… Read more.
Lines of cars snake from gasoline stations. Fights break out among angry motorists trying to get fuel. Grocery staples are out of stock on store shelves. A charity warns that doubling heating bills will force a million households to rely on extra blankets to stay warm. This was supposed to be the year the UK… Read more.
Episode 49: Not Only Did Vikings Precede Him but Indians Greeted Him… Listen.
Mark Zuckerberg denied his 3.5 billion users the ability to get high (er, likes) on Facebook and Instagram for nearly six hours on Monday. But if you believe his configuration story about this outage, you probably believe Donald Trump’s fraud story about the 2020 presidential election. I think the temperamental Zuckerberg just reacted in a… Read more.
Catholic nuns are predators, too? Anyone who attended Catholic grade school can testify to witnessing nuns display spasms of demonic violence. Witnessing that informed the cynicism I vented earlier this year (on February 26) in “More Catholic Depravity: Nuns Pimping Orphans to Priests.” But if nuns could serve as madams for pedophile priests, it’s hardly… Read more.
The first Monday in October marks the beginning of a new term for the Supreme Court. This tradition dates back to 1916. But the Court has never marked this occasion with public opinion of its impartiality as low as it is today. The Supreme Court’s approval rating is plummeting, its critics are more caustic, and… Read more.
Unsurprisingly, Saturday Night Live featured in-fighting among Democrats over President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda on its season premiere on Saturday night. And it’s arguable that SNL’s portrayal of this in-fighting was not only more entertaining but more comprehensible than any report in the mainstream media. For the record, though, here is a little of… Read more.
Episode 48: Mandatory Military Service Will Improve Democracies and Prevent Stupid Wars… Related commentaries: bone-spur Trump… Listen.
