Cruising on Comedy Central
South Park, which begins its tenth season on Comedy Central tonight, is now not only one of the longest-running TV hits but also part of political as well as pop ...
The Sex Offender Next Door
I wrote a Wall Street Journal opinion piece last year that began: Did you know that in California, child molesters and rapists are a protected class? It’s true. Not only ...
Off to College
D-Day arrived last week at my house in the form of delivering my daughter Maia to college. She begins her freshman year this week at UC San Diego, where she’s ...
A Bit of Respect
My teenage daughter had never heard of Rodney Dangerfield when he died a couple of years ago at age 82, but reading his obituary in the paper that morning, she ...
Back with the Futurama
Of course, the news this summer that Futurama — cancelled just a few seasons after the animated sci-fi comedy premiered on Fox in 1999 — will return with 13 new ...
Lessons in Living
For several weeks two summers ago, the New York Times op-ed page had a regular woman columnist who, unlike Maureen Dowd, actually took the trouble to think about issues and ...
Hip Hypocrites
Earlier this year, I delighted people on the Right and infuriated those on the Left by reporting what a friend had experienced in San Francisco’s famed City Lights bookstore. He’d ...
Head-in-Sand MSM
Some, at least, are slowly waking up to this. Last month (somewhat to my surprise), the Los Angeles Times ran an op-ed by me complaining that the paper had built ...
Throw Out Your Cookie Cutters
Reading Arianna Huffington’s latest high-horse commentary about Mel Gibson’s “odious racism” — that is, Gibson’s nutty ravings about “the Jews” when stopped by a traffic cop in Malibu — reminded ...
310 or Bust
Some years ago I found myself with a short-lived job working with my betters on the West Side of Los Angeles, and one day asked a colleague for a phone ...