Month: November 2017

Today is supposed to be a day for giving thanks, so let’s talk about one man who’s currently famous for refusing to do so. I recently watched the entire twenty ...

Muhammad Ali once explained why the idea that there were some decent white people wasn’t a useful argument for him. Suppose there were ten thousand snakes, most...

When I was a younger man, I loved the movie “Revenge of the Nerds.” I was a disenfranchised nerd, so its message of the underdogs overcoming the beautiful peopl...

I remember the first time I saw it happen, years ago. I was handing out Halloween candy. In those days, there were still enough houses in the neighborhood givin...

Perhaps the most enduring gag from the Peanuts cartoon strip involves Charlie Brown, Lucy van Pelt, and a football. Year after year, Lucy would offer to hold th...