Author: CBD

One of the significant downsides to living in a metropolitan area is the vile smugness and condescension that is displayed on every street corner and at every cocktail party and brunch and casual conversation. The trivial fact that these pompous asses live in Park Slope rather than suburban Kansas City or Montana or Eastern Washington…

What a concept! Tradition. And nowhere does tradition act more aggressively than in the norms of sexual behavior. But that makes perfect sense, even ignoring the biblical admonitions. Exactly how would civilization advance if the structure of the family was a chaotic melange of multiple sex partners and multiple fathers and mothers who could not…

As much as I would like to believe that there will be a significant diminution of the leftist indoctrination that has been a staple at American universities for 30 years, The reality is that in spite of on-line learning taking the place of classroom instruction, there won’t be much of a change. Because the vast…

It’s very easy for sentient beings to make fun of Gropin’ Joe Biden, because his rapid descent into senility, coupled with his impressively unsuccessful legislative career, capped with a stint as a figure-head vice president makes him ripe for mockery. But figurehead or not, his economic plan for America has to be taken seriously because…

Do you want to read what’s coming if Gropin’ Joe Biden manages to totter into the Oval Office, drool cup in the hand of his wife and extra Depends ready in the bathroom? Because Victor Davis Hanson wrote a terrifying description of what we can expect, and it isn’t some fantasy plucked from the fervid…

As distasteful as flag burning is, if a protester wants to burn an American flag, then have at it. And if a protester wants to burn a cross, well, that’s offensive, but the whole point of free speech laws is to protect offensive speech, not pathetic bromides spouted by smarmy fools. But…there is a line,…

The complexities of the global economy make simplistic solutions for the problems caused by offshoring and dumping and unfettered immigration, like “MORE EDUCATION!” a bit silly. And even defining terms is difficult. Many people around here are for free trade as imagined in textbooks, but when that trade is used as a weapon the way…

When your society conflates rapping with intellectualism, when your greatest icons throw a ball through a hoop or sing about casual sexual intercourse being the highest expression of humanity, and when you kill each other at astonishing rates, you get knuckle-dragging, booger-eating ignorant assholes like this: TV host, rapper Nick Cannon propagates anti-Semitic conspiracy theories…

Why do you oppose abortion? For many it is the religious prohibition, for many it is that the value of life is not dependent on anything other than our humanity. Assigning a value to humanity based on anything other than intrinsic and immutable things is a slippery slope. Which is exactly the point of abortion…

I love statues, and will cross the street or walk down the block whenever I see one in a new city, and if it is someone with whom I am familiar, so much the better. But good, bad or indifferent, statues are a signal that someone thought that the guy who dug the first sewer…