By Oct 02,2008

Cartoon Villains

From Sky News: The Honey Monster, Tony The Tiger, and Snap, Crackle and Pop have been branded ‘cartoon villains’ by consumer watchdog Which? for failing to promote healthy eating in...

By Sep 17,2008

In new Russia, vodka drink you!

So apparently someone has been using an underwater pipeline to smuggle vodka out of Russia. Thing is, I would have thought the pipe-flow would have been in the opposite direction.

By Aug 25,2008

'An Alfresco Oral Sex Contest'

The Bad News Britons are taking their binge-and-vomit tour on the road, debasing themselves and threatening the public decency wherever they go. So says Sarah Lyall in the NYT: They...

By Aug 19,2008

When Private Goes Public

Camille Paglia, I am noticing slightly belatedly, turned in a pitch-perfect expression of the problem with the ‘let sleeping adulterers lie’ meme in post-Clintonian political commentary: As a Democrat who...

By Jul 22,2008

Context is King, _***er

Julian wants to argue that The N Word is not always offensive. I agree: we can run offensive vulgarities that degrade everyone in their full printed glory but yikes when...

By Jul 10,2008

Beer: The Imports

Perhaps you have been called a snob for drinking — ugh — a Heineken. Possibly you have rebuked yourself personally for ordering one of those increasingly bizarre American microbrews, things...