It’s fitting, in a fit-in-with-the-crowd kind of way, that my first visit in several decades to the bar that inspired the television program Cheers comes a few minutes after disembarking from a flight at Logan Airport. Walking down those familiar…
The scariest thing about Halloween isn’t the goblins, those kids egging your house, or biting down on a sharp surprise in a Special Dark. It’s adults who impersonate children. Halloween, a holiday for children, has transformed into an unholy day for adults;…
If a government shuts down and no one is around to notice it, does anybody care? Washington, D.C. went on vacation this week. America remained open for business. Parents dropped off kids at school. Workers earned their daily bread….
The crudest show on television is also the smartest. South Park’s seventeenth season premiered on Comedy Central Wednesday night. For anyone counting, the animated program now boasts more episodes than Star Trek, Gilligan’s Island, and The Honeymooners combined. As they’ve…
“The entire time I was at MTV,” nineties video jockey Kennedy writes in her autobiography, “I was drug-, alcohol-, and smoke-free, a vegetarian, and a virgin.” In other words, the girl in granny-glasses led a terribly boring life for a…
Those skeptical of the degeneration of America’s royal line need look no further than Robert Kennedy Jr. His grandfather bedded Gloria Swanson. His father scored Marilyn Monroe. He mounts any rando who passes by. Like the Spanish Habsburgs or the…
There’s a strange serial killer afoot. She goes by “Molly,” frequents the most posh spots, and is “in” with the in-crowd. For those unfamiliar with Molly, it is slang for a club drug that has killed an alarming number of…
The headlines indicate football’s headwinds. “Is American Football Evil?” “Should Kids Play Football?” “Is Football Wrong?” “Should We Ban Football?” Some questions give answers just by asking. With the public equating football with the NFL — especially on the day…
On a single page of my new book The War on Football: Saving America’s Game, I compare the sport’s dwindling number of annual collision deaths with fatalities from mountain climbing, swimming, bicycling, and amusement rides. In a single paragraph of…
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