Larry Thornberry
It’s never a surprise, or at least shouldn’t be, when someone goes on at the age of 93. Father Time, after all, is undefeated. But this one really hurts. As actuarially sound as the event may have been, my wife…
It’s increasingly difficult to understand why any straight white male could remain a Democrat. Happily, there are fewer of these as time goes by, most being nimble enough to recognize aggravated misandry when they see it. But the remnant doesn’t…
Sports pages used to be sane alternatives to the insanity of the news pages. No more. Normal Americanos have just gotten their heads around the fact that two guys, or at least non-women, fought for the gold medal in women’s…
Save for the fact that it isn’t even slightly funny, those following Democrat politics can be excused for suspecting they’ve stumbled across a Marx Brothers retrospective. Duck Soup made more sense than what’s going on in Democrat circles just now. The…
You Never Know — A Memoir By Tom Selleck with Ellis Henican (DEYST, 343 pages, $30) In which, happily, Tom Selleck does not tell all. I know what you’re thinking. You Never Know is just another one of those first-person memoirs of the…
Reading the full transcript of last night’s interview is a sobering experience. I don’t recommend it for the faint of heart. It was about what we had every right to expect from our Zombie-in Chief. But the shocker of last…
Once again the estimable Joseph Epstein hits it out of the park on how addictive and dispiriting watching and reading the news has become these days. I feel his pain. It’s sort of like road kill, isn’t it? You know you…
It’s a fine idea to pay tribute to movie stuntmen, those little-known heroes of the silver screen. But one would have to be far more charmed by endless, overloud, and preposterous action scenes and brain-dead fights than I am in…
Like so many Americanos, I’m spending more time than I should listening to news out of Manhattan, where the local prosecutor there has charged the leading Republican candidate for president with 34 felony counts of being Donald Trump. I challenge…
