If smoking, depression, insomnia, and narcissism are disorders requiring treatment according to the WHO, there’s no reason socialism shouldn’t make the list. A new study explores whether conservatives are mentally healthier than progressives. Conducted by researchers from Tufts and Yale…
A couple of nights ago, we were unpacking some kitchen appliances and gadgets at home. You’d be surprised at the amount of nonsense warnings in manuals these days. “Do not use the pressure cooker for purposes other than intended” is…
As a kid, one of the most painful cultural shocks is the day you realize your favorite sport, the one everyone in your country loves, is irrelevant elsewhere. I couldn’t fathom that there were kids around the world who weren’t…
They’re predicting days of extreme heat back home, and I know what’s coming. As a writer, my calling is to focus on what’s truly important for world peace, so I want to head off the disaster and make things clear…
In the last few years, some of our very best comics — think Greg Giraldo, Patrice O’Neal, Gilbert Gottfried, and Norm MacDonald — have left us a lot earlier than we might have expected. I’d even include on that list…
I confess I’ve sinned against the climate and against Mother Jones. And I’ll do it again. The famous magazine of tantric sex and other intellectual pipe dreams enlightens us with a bombshell report that changes everything: Dudes Emit More Greenhouse…
Madness has a strange, bad rap. There’s nothing saner than a madman, often just a guy who wants to escape this planet, overrun with cold hearts, slumbering lives, and events that disgust still-warm, sensitive skins. A glance at history: Nearly…
Life is what happens while you’re trying not to get hit on the head by a Soviet spaceship. For as long as I can remember, countless pieces of communist space junk have been crashing back to Earth — either because…
The progressive is a creature that, like all others, evolves. Many progressives at 18 turn conservative by their 30s, as soon as they start earning a paycheck and witness the federal government’s greed firsthand. Others take longer. Here are 50…
