As we approach 2004, we should take a last fleeting look into the rearview mirror. Think of it as an inoculation against future perils… Anti-Americanism No, this won’t be going away soon, and frankly, there’s lots to be anti-American about. We have the incredible evil of unlimited abortion on demand, a functionally atheist and socialistic
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The Autumn of 1777 was a strange period of brilliant success and bitter failure in our Revolutionary War. The Battles of Saratoga are regarded as the turning point in the War, as they induced the French to recognize American independence and give us open military assistance. On the other hand, to the south, things were
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One of the most anticipated movies of all time, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, will be opening on December 17th. Timed perfectly to take advantage of the prelude to what used to be called “Christmas Vacation,” the extended opening weekend will surely be massive, and will probably set a record.
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I must admit. It hit me at an early age. I was about 19, and a student at UCLA, during the never-to-be-repeated glory years of Bruin basketball, when Lew Alcindor (now known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) was the star attraction. A group of us were eating lunch, and were recovering from a particularly gruesome organic chemistry
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Many Americans are experiencing a nearly constant state of low-level emotional tension. As a consequence of this, a significant number of us are taking one or more of the serotonin-reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) family of drugs, which includes Prozac (fluoxetine), Zoloft (sertraline) and Paxil (paroxetine)—not to mention a host of other psych meds. It’s been said
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What better time could there be to discuss the phenomenon of “dying as a career move” than the 40th anniversary of the JFK assassination? This phenomenon, hardly new, raises up certain people, after their “tragic” deaths as larger-than-life heroes, inflating their good deeds beyond any conformance with reality, while erasing their mistakes and misdeeds like
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You might be concerned about the jobless recovery, or the daily revelations of crooked dealings in big business. You could be troubled by the incredible lack of any discernible talent (except a knack for the most craven pandering imaginable) in the current crop of presidential wanna-bees proffered by the Evil party. Perhaps you are bothered
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This topic is so nice, that’s why we did it twice… Free Speech Beyond Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.’s admonition [Schenck v. U.S.(1919)] whereby “The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.” We have total free speech in the US, right?
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The frost is on the pumpkin, the geese are on the wing, and your faithful correspondent has to let loose a little. So, in no particular order… The Elizabeth Smart Case Tell me. If your 15-year-old daughter were returned after a nine-month kidnapping ordeal, would you rush out to get a movie deal, a book
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Sometimes it is instructive to view the current situation through an entirely different prism. How about from the frame of reference of a genius prophet of the scene, who came of age in fin-de-siècle Vienna? Karl Kraus (1874-1936) was a brilliant Austrian journalist, critic, lecturer, playwright, and poet. He was the founder, editor, and from
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