A friend went to a great deal of trouble recently trying to find a slow cooker made in America. She failed. She wanted to buy American because she’s concerned about “American jobs getting shipped overseas.” Whether such a slow cooker exisits I don’t know, but I’m not sure that I feel much sympathy for the […]
Olivier, Olivier, what were you thinking? You walked into an overtly traditional “family values” theme park wearing a gay marriage T-shirt and expected no push-back? No, of course that’s not what you did. You were looking for a fight. You certainly looked like you were looking for a fight … or at the very least […]
To quote myself quoting an unlikable Maugham character last month, “a man who dies for his country dies because he likes it as surely as a man eats pickled cabbage because he likes it.” And while I don’t for a moment believe that anybody wants to die in combat, intuition tells me that many or […]
