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“I don’t want to offend, and yet I do, in a way.”— Dame Edna, 2004 No, Dame Edna Everage was not drag.  When the masterly Australian performer Barry Humphries put on a purple wig, a bedazzled frock, and a pair of utterly…

The good people of Chicago are going to the voting places on Tuesday to take back their city and return it to a safe town for their families to live in. Mayor Lori Lightfoot is currently polling a distant third place and is projected…

If you’ve been reading this column for a very long time you might be familiar with Mr. Bingle, whose arrival at Castle McKay was heralded by a 2014 column in this space. At the time he was a bouncy, and quite rambunctious,…

Brandon Year Two (aka COVID Year 3) lived up to every cynic’s expectation. 2022 was a pointless prima donna of a year. An event in late May summed it up perfectly. At the Louvre Museum in Paris, a transgender “woman,”…

At our annual Robert L. Bartley Gala on October 20, keynote speaker Newt Gingrich delivered his funniest line in characteristic Newt form when he said, “We have today a president who on a good day is an idiot.” Since November 8, that…

Do you remember back when you were in school and your math or science teacher gave a test in class in which you were asked to solve a problem or two and you were explicitly admonished to show your work? The reasons for this…

Starwatch chartBid farewell to the harvest moon this week as it cruises through Gemini, the twins, for a close encounter with the star Pollux.In the early hours of 20 September, the moon will be a beautiful waning crescent with 30% of…

I think most of us here at The Verge can agree that if we were famous celebrities who acted in some of the highest-grossing films of all time, we would always be rocking the latest and greatest tech. That’s apparently not how Chris…

New York CNN Business  —  “Saturday Night Live” closed out its 47th season by saying goodbye to two of its most beloved cast members. On Saturday…

Real estate types are starting to ponder the future of their businesses as rising interest rates become serious and, for some developers, compound the impact of double-digit hikes in construction costs.Some already have dropped…