James Bovard When I moved from the mountains of Virginia to Boston in 1977, it was just like the Beverly Hillbillies going to California except I didn’t have $80 million. I had dropped out of college and decided Boston was the place to pursue literary fame and fortune. I had sold one piece a few months…
By Paul Meekin “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence” – Robert Frost Are literacy tests racist? Designed to weed out minorities and people in order to prevent them from becoming teachers in New York? Probably not, but that’s a subject of discussion and a forthcoming…
by Bric Butler The Romans had Horace, the French had Voltaire, and now Americans have… South Park? It may not be the lofty tongue of a poet or the quick wit of a philosopher, but in our era, fate has destined it to be passed the satirical torch, which it not only carries, but more…
by Phillip Stucky Long-time Republican and National Security Advisor to President Richard Nixon Henry Kissinger could endorse Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, according to a Politico report Friday. The news came from former Secretary of State George Shultz who served under President Ronald Reagan. The conversation started at Stanford a few weeks ago, when Shultz answered…
Andrew Follett A British couple paid almost $100,000 to clone a pair of puppies from the DNA of their recently deceased boxer named Dylan. “I’m trying to get my head round the fact that this puppy has 100% of the same DNA as Dylan,” the woman who ordered the cloned puppies told The Guardian. “I had Dylan since…
By Katherine Baker Meryl Streep, highly acclaimed actress and outspoken progressive, said in a public interview recently: “We hurt our boys by calling something toxic masculinity… because women can be pretty [expletive] toxic.” “It’s toxic people,” Streep went on to say, “We’re all on the boat together. We’ve got to make it work.” The 69-year-old actress is…
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