I woke up with unusual energy, as if I had fallen straight out of a Michael Jackson music video. I grabbed my notebook, my sunglasses, and a coffee to go, then went to write in the sun by the sea….
As I begin the promotion of my new book, I Will Not Eat Crickets (my first in the United States), I am delighted to see that the best campaign is being waged against me by those to whom I declare…
A couple of days ago, while on my way to the train’s cafeteria, I bumped into an overly wide lady wearing overly narrow heels. Her heel dug into my foot violently, and, amid the silence of the carriage, my outburst…
We are the conservatives, and we like good, truth, and beauty. That is, we like Pope John Paul II, St. Thomas Aquinas, and Ivanka Trump. We also like beer, but I don’t want to detract from the solemnity of the…
The day had started out calm and sunny, until, for some strange reason, I opened the newspaper. There I learned that there is a mad scientist working to resurrect the extinct woolly mammoth. Seriously. A company named Colossal is working…
Talking is easy. It happens when air passes from the lungs through airways and the larynx, making the vocal cords vibrate and resulting in sounds that, in most adults, we interpret as language. When those sounds correspond to the concrete…
The other day I was invited to a party at a pub with very young people. I didn’t like the place very much, but I accepted the invitation knowing that the host was a good friend of mine and believing…
Kamala Harris has made a prediction about the upcoming election. The opposite is guaranteed to happen. The vice president has predicted that Joe Biden will beat Donald Trump again (perhaps in the 100-meter wheelchair dash). And Democrats will even, she…
Next month marks the two-year anniversary of the death of America’s funniest writer, P.J. O’Rourke. The world of journalism is a little grayer and a lot duller since then. It’s like being on a laughter diet. He knew better than…