God Bless Niall Ferguson! (Pretty much) It’s hard to think of anyone I have trashed so consistently and so contemptuously as Niall Ferguson, whom I once grudgingly praised with a thoroughly uncivil leer as a Thelonious Monk-loving slimeball, while also urging readers not to read his then most recent book, whose title will go unmentioned…
Tag: Johnny Depp
Washington Post columnist empties his bladder on Washington Post column
Yeah, it’s not really a question of what WashPost Media Critic dude Erik Wemple had been drinking, but rather how much, and, judging by his recent offering, Depp-Heard case hinged on the world’s worst #MeToo op-ed, I’d say a good two liters at a minimum. It’s true that I beat Erik to the post, so…
Yo, SNL! We’re laughing at you, not with you!
Has it come to this? Saturday Night Live, America’s long-reigning arbitre de l’élégance1 is being laughed at by the great unwashed for its fat-assed bourgeosity and likely fear of offending “big stars”? That ’tis true ’tis pity, and pity ’tis, ’tis true. Last Saturday SNL ran the “cold opening” shown above, banally riffing on the…
Who got f*cked the hardest in the Johnny Depp/Amber Heard defamation suit, the Washington Post, Elon Musk, or the ACLU?
Here’s the deal. Back in 2018, the Washington Post ran an opinion piece by Hollywood actress Amber Heard, I spoke up against sexual violence — and faced our culture’s wrath. That has to change. The piece, which identified Heard as “an actress and ambassador on women’s rights at the American Civil Liberties Union,” features what…