Stephen Fry and Mr. Show
Sean MurphyLet me begin by saying Stephen Fry represents the type of person we all should aspire to be: kind, intelligent, compassionate. I've celebrated his eloquence on this blog in the…
The Catholic Church is Decadent and Depraved: Papal Edition
So here is the best thing I've seen this week relating to the Pope slinking away into post-Prada obscurity. Selena Coppock Pope Benedict is stepping down from his official duties,…
2011: Time To Die (Part Two: July-December)
2011: In pace requiescat! 7/26/11: Whenever an artist dies too young, particularly when it is a self-inflicted surrender, there is an inevitable (irresistible?) tendency to romanticize or lionize. That Winehouse…
Sui generis on the rocks: Christopher Hitchens, R.I.P.
The best way to compliment a writer, as a reader, is to recommend their work to others. That I wholeheartedly do --and have done. The best way to compliment a…
The Catholic Church is (still) Decadent and Depraved
Follow the money. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. These are the two oft-invoked quotes I kept thinking to myself as I read Sabrina Rubin Erdley's piece, "The…
Mark Twain: The Big Daddy of American Letters (Revisited)
On April 21, 1910, author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, died in Redding, Conn. Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is…
Newt Gingrich: Dimestore Despot
This just in: Newt gingrich remains the most repugnant and despicable ass-clown in America! (Narrowly edging out the oleaginous Andrew Breitbart, who may finally have done civilization a favor by…
The Catholic Church is Decadent and Depraved
Part One: Abandon hope all ye who enter here... First, and appropriately, a confession. The title is both a tribute to, and an outright plagiarism of Hunter S. Thompson's masterful…
Scaring the nation with their guns and ammunition…
For anyone who wants a more sober analysis of the Gates fiasco,…
The Terror Card, Torture and You or, The Evil of Banality
"A perfect storm of ignorance and enthusiasm." That quote, attributed to a former CIA official who courageously remains anonymous, seems about as perfectly succinct a crystallization I've yet read regarding…