Seeking a vaccine for ignorance
Flashback: Galileo is under house arrest pondering the unyielding ignorance of the church for refusing to consider his heliocentric proposition that the Earth circled the sun. We find this historical...
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How the GOP sacrificed Sarah Palin
When Democrats were looking for evidence of a Republican war on women, they overlooked Exhibit A — Sarah Palin. This isn't to say that Palin was part of the war...
Decoding Pope Francis
Forget E.F. Hutton. It's P.F. (Pope Francis) these days who, when he talks, people listen. And then they get busy trying to figure out what he was really saying. Even...
Ignore the peddlers of outrage
Recent events from Ferguson, Mo., to Staten Island, N.Y., might prompt an observer to infer that American cops are racist and that a bigoted white populace tolerates unnecessary lethal force...
Sony reality is stranger than fiction
A writer seeking profound pronouncements for a year-end column is likely instead to find herself awash in punch lines. Life isn't a comedy. It's a joke. Hey, did you hear...
How the hackers taught Hollywood a lesson about cheap stunts
If I were a cartoonist, a phrase cartoonists are loath to hear, I'd sketch a chubby imp donned in a diaper, sporting a chia mohawk and munching the last Big...
Parker: Ferguson and the media circus
As the curtain closes on the latest episode of "Ferguson," the media series, it is fair to wonder whether events might not have spiraled out of control to the extent...
Pope Francis the rabble-rouser
— News that Pope Francis will visit the U.S. next year for the triennial World Meeting of Families brings elation to Catholics, excitement to pope watchers — and perhaps a...
Obama and ‘the stupidity of the American voter’
Post-election analysis falls somewhere between amusing and clueless. In the amusing camp are Democratic strategists who intone that more Democrats would have won if only more people had voted. The...
Sorry, Lena Dunham, you’re stuck with your life story and the critics
Lena Dunham, creator of the sensational HBO series "Girls" — and now the object of overwrought child abuse accusations by boys on the right — seems the perfect antidote to...