I love holidays at the winter solstice. I love making the deadest, darkest time of the year light and green. I love Santa. But have an almost irresistible urge to put on a pileus.
More than 17 decades after it was ceded to the British in perpetuity—and just 17 years after the British handed it over to the People’s Republic of China—the forces of democracy, and opposing forces, are being played out in Hong Kong. 60 years ago, they played out in Lord of the Flies.
Happy Labor Day; have fun on the beach. But remember that Charles Atlases--human and otherwise--do best where 97 pound weaklings are unable to run away.
The US embassy in Libya was evacuated today. There are costs associated with anarchy. And there are costs associated with peace. Most have to do with politics, and sex.
Most of history is about patriarchs. But for thousands of years before history was written, women made a name for themselves; and that’s happening more often, now.
Etymologically, the word Easter evokes the Latin for gadfly, the Greek for mad frenzy, and old English and Sumerian fertility goddesses. These days, everybody gets an egg.
Once upon a time, one of Henny Youngman's ancestors offered his wife to a pharaoh--and got compensated for it. Since then, history has repeated itself.
Last week, the KCNA announced the execution of Jang Song Thaek, who half-heartedly clapped when the supreme leader showed up. As usual, there are precedents for that.
On 22 November 1963, at around 12:30 CST, Mimi Alford was with her husband-to-be, Tony, and she started to cry. “There’s something I have to tell you,” she said.
521 years ago, Columbus boarded his carrack and headed west. The laborers, peasants and convicts on his ships were looking for gold, real estate, and the opposite sex.
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