Archive for March, 2008

When they turn off the last non-cable will there still be an FCC?

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

NOTE: This is a column about naughty words. A local Las Vegas eatery called Paymon’s Cafe, specializing in Middle Eastern cuisine, serves its own version of the popular peach-flavored concoction generally known as the Fuzzy Navel, but dubbing it the “Genie’s Navel” — a reference that may soar over the heads of younger diners. From […]

‘The article has deeply demented me’

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

Back on Feb. 17 I offered another column on an American of great character and achievement — in this case, George Washington — who wound up better educated with only a few years formal schooling than our high school “scholars” of today. (In fact, John Taylor Gatto goes beyond that — asserting that locking kids […]