Even before you leave the house in the morning, you make dozens, if not hundreds, of choices. Should you hit the snooze feature on the alarm or just get out of bed? What should you wear for the day? Should you eat breakfast? If yes, then what should you eat? You picked a bagel, should you ...
There was a time when celebrity roasts were built on the tiniest shred of wit, driven not by a desire to be as offensive as possible but to poke fun at uncomfortable truths packaged in genuine humor and delivered with enough intelligence to make even the roastee laugh. But today's generation of roasts -- now hosted by Netflix for ungodly amounts of money -- are about as far from comedy as they could possibly be. No, they're just algorithmic outrage factories, populated by attention whores. The latest example of this pattern was Netflix's roast of Kevin Hart, who is clearly willing to ...
On April 1, 114 guests and 61 crew members, unaware of the presence of a killer virus among them, boarded the MV Hondius. That ship has earned the moniker "Ship of Fools." Because of the top brass's reckless disregard of infection control principles, the ship's passengers and thousands of ...
Virginia Democrats are doing an unwitting service to the whole country -- by revealing just how hostile their party is to the most essential checks and balances. Democrats violated the state's constitution by pushing through a referendum to take four congressional seats away from Republicans. But when Virginia's supreme court threw out the illegal map, Democrats didn't back down: They started thinking of ways to get rid of every justice on the court, so they could pack it with new ones expressly picked to return a verdict more favorable to the party. If the Democrat-controlled ...
"Why so few babies?" asked a New York Times essay that sounded oddly familiar to me. In my college days, it seemed that everybody was talking about "The Population Bomb," the 1968 best-seller in which Stanford biologist Paul R.Ehrlich predicted worldwide famines and other dire consequences allegedly facing our baby boom generation. The Times essay, by contributing opinion writer Anna Louie Sussman, is drawn from her forthcoming book "Inconceivable: The Impossibility of Family in an Age of Uncertainty." In contrast to Ehrlich, whose predictions fortunately did not play out quite as ...
If you have ever regretted saying something and wished you could take the words back, you are not alone. It is tough knowing how to respond during an emotionally charged conflict. You may be able to change future conflicts, but it will take some exercise. No need to get out your bike or get on ...
