Just Not Said

You don't have to look far on the internet to see a lot of nasty jokes about Obama. There are jokes about how he was born in Kenya. Abou...

The Republican debate last night generated the usual amount of publicity. All of the candidates are obviously intelligent, and well-rehearse...

Saw two movies on pay-per-view in the last two days. Dope  is about a nerdy black guy from Inglewood who wants to get into Harvard. Most ...

Commenter Steven recently mentioned Michelle Carter . You may have heard of her: she's the high school girl in Massachusetts who cajoled...

An article in the NY Post just described why Principal Lena Van Haren at Everett Middle School in San Francisco decided to withhold school ...

Seymour Hersh's  article in the London Review of Books  about how the killing of Osama bin Laden really occurred, which came out in May,...

You may have noticed that when in a good mood, you'll either relive a pleasant experience, or indulge in a pleasant fantasy about someth...

Lamar Odom is the former Los Angeles Laker who was married for a few years to Khloe Kardashian. If you read the tabloids -- as I do -- yo...

Kevin McCarthy, who withdrew his bid for speaker of the House yesterday, is now being accused of having had an affair with fellow Represent...

The current Jeopardy champion, Matt Jackson, is on a roll. He's won eight straight games, and over $200,000. By the second or third t...

According to Christopher Harper-Mercer's mother, who was quoted in the NY Times this morning , he had Aspergers Syndrome. Just like Elli...

The worm's eye view of a person is always far more illuminating than any other view. Update, next day: yet another book detailing Hi...

While we were on the subject of men's looks this evening, my son offered the following analysis of mine: "Dad, you're like a ...

In June of 2011 I wrote a sociopath alert about Frank Abagnale , the con man about whom the movie Catch Me if You Can was about. Yesterda...

The other day Ed Gendreau pointed out: "People always say 'We're a nation of immigrants' as a rationale to allow illega...

No one really knows what Jesus looked like, of course, but it's interesting to look at the various paintings of him and consider their i...

The Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City, is widely known as the catalyst for the gay rights movement when it was raided by police in l...

Vocabulary.com defines the word as: Someone who becomes a leader largely because of skills as a speaker or who appeals to emotions and pre...

If a friend borrowed money from you, then, when you asked to be repaid, said that he didn't have the money because he'd given it awa...

A young man told me recently that he "hate reads" a certain site, just to see how full of it they are. I'd never heard the exp...