Where are the witty reviewers of yore; the Alexander Woollcotts, the Dorothy Parkers, the Walter Kerrs, and the rest of an erudite and often acerbic…
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Yoko Ono. Heather Mills. Yoko Ono Lennon. Heather Mills-McCartney. Two women. Two Beatles. Who knew? Just remember – everyone – even the allegedly sycophantic, royally…
By Dan Geddes 21 January 2015 America’s fullness is a bad fullness; an emptiness. America is full of emptiness, because it is too full of…
Many Americans identify themselves through compound forms based on national or regional origin—African-American, Italian-American, Irish-American, Mexican-American, etc. Such individuals often band together and hold parades, have parties, and get politicians to cater to their particular interests. But what about folks who identify themselves in ways other than where they or their descendants came from? Shouldn’t these people be able to form collectives and get in on the action? Take the case of Ugly-Americans.
By Harvey J. Lieberman 19 January 2015 Revelations about concussion injuries among professional football players and the resulting National Football League settlement challenge cherished notions…
WASHINGTON – Buried deep in the thousands of classified documents leaked by Edward Snowden, journalists have uncovered evidence of a little known non-kinetic warfare device…
By Neal Starkman 10 January 2015 Republican Congressman from Louisiana Steve Scalise is in deep trouble with colleagues after it was revealed that in 2012…
by Dave Norton NEW YORK – In a stunning display of solidarity and disrespect toward New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio, the New York…
(A Jason Half-Pillow Ennui Existential) When Amy One Eye Shut, an almost pathologically shy Navajo Maid at just another in a scattered series of California…
Robert Charpentier WASHINGTON—Republican Congressional leaders are calling the President out for his handling of the ongoing, destructive lava flow in Hawaii. “We want to know…
The following are five new mental disorders that have been included in the American Psychiatric Association’s 2015 edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of…
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