‘We’re Saved!’ The Brooklyn Nets Will Play this Thursday
New Yorkers breathed a collective sigh of relief today as the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets declared that they will in fact play their season opener against the New York Knicks as scheduled this Thursday . Hurricanes More...
Making Fascism Fashionable with John F. Kennedy
“Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country…” —John F. Kennedy Fifty years ago, John F. Kennedy, in his 1961 inaugural address delivered one of the greatest More...
A Weekend Request
…Where it all comes out… The weekend’s here, which for most will mean football and later, large quantities of beer. But at some point, if (when?) you have 45 minutes free, watch this interview More...
Mormons and Muslims: Telling the Difference
It’s a complex world we live in. And it’s increasingly easy to get confused. Mormons, Muslims who can keep the two faiths straight what with all those repeating vowels and double m’s? Then More...
The Book Guy: Must Read: War by Sebastian Junger
Two weeks ago I made it clear that I had some serious problems with supposed Vietnam War era classic, Michael Herr’s Dispatches. Namely, that it sucked and was an overwrought stream of consciousness that More...
Your City Sucks: Chicago Edition, pt. 1
The “Windy City,” named for the hot air its notoriously corrupt politicians spew, should not surprise as the inaugural installment of YCS. Chicago is an annual fixture on Forbes’ “Most Miserable More...
It’s Not Halloween Yet, but Pretenders Abound
…Where it all comes out… It’s not quite Halloween, but turn on the TV and you’ll see grown men pretending to be things they are not. ♦ It feels like just yesterday that men seated in More...
An Old Dyke’s Tale: the Gender Wage Gap
It’s that time of the week, which means I should have another book review for you according to what passes for a schedule around here. As much as I’d love to trot out a review of whatever fiction’s More...
The Man Who Would Be King: William Walker’s Invasion of Nicaragua
It’s hard to imagine now, but there was once a time when the international military intervention of the United States was condemned at home, while invited abroad. Well, maybe not invited, but long ago a U.S. More...
It’s Fall and We’re Getting Restless
…Where it all comes out… Now is the late autumn of our discontent. The 4th branch of the government, the organ of dissent is being played by the very people orchestrating (with gusto) the financial More...