Recently, a handful of my persistent critics have suggested that I am intolerant of other people’s opinions because I dispute them. That’s a strange notion of intolerance. It seems to suggest that if one disagrees, one must remain silent in the name of tolerance. I’m not buying it, just like I’m not buying any of […]

I grew up in a cold-weather state, so I can take the cold of winter. Unless it gets down around zero for a couple of weeks, and then it’s, “You know what’s nice, Carol? Ecuador.” “No.” “Let me finish. ‘Equator’ is right in the name, practically. And you can get bananas for pennies on the […]

The media is full of pronouncements about the demise of the Republican Party. It’s not diverse enough. Doesn’t offer much to young people. It’s against women and can’t speak to them. It’s just a bunch of old, white guys, clutching their guns in fear of change. It’s fractured by splinter groups and consuming itself in […]

Please allow me to say how completely hilarious it is that Edgar Allen Beem has lately seemed to shy away from his seemingly never-ending rallying cry against conservatives and is now championing for the cause of – here it comes – chimpanzees. Apparently his “Personal-weekly-look-at-the-world-around-him” bubble has been burst by the easily predictable downfall and failure […]