Huffington Post scribbler Cole Delbyck has vowed never to watch Last Tango in Paris again. He put on his big-boy pants and proudly announced his resolve in a mawkish exercise in virtue signaling entitled, “That Famous Rape Scene In ‘Last Tango in Paris’ Was In Fact Not Consensual, Director Says.”

Director Tom Ford’s second movie might be as good as his first. That’s saying a lot because A Single Man (2009) was an excellent debut for a guy who’s more into Yves Saint Laurent and Gucci than, it seems, directing a motion picture.

An early example of minimalist filmmaking is Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope. More recently, minimalist movies that have come our way are Jim Jarmusch’s Down By Law with Tom Waits; Alfonso Curarón’s Gravity with George Clooney and Sandra Bullock; and a superb far out sci-fi trek that Jonathan...

A fantastic but false story about dog-sitting helps identify different types of lies in comedy and answer the question of whether "truth" ultimately rules.

Every stand up comedian has his own unique microphone grip. I’ve collected a comprehensive list of ALL the grips that are out there. Which one fits you?

A lot of “normal” people don’t know there’s a whole different language comedians use to talk about stand up comedy. Here's the honest explanation.

Imagine you're cramming for your test in fluid dynamics when you get a text: Demetri Martin is coming to your school this week...and you're opening for him.

'Trump has brought a flamethrower to a stick fight, and fully understands confirmation bias,’ the Dilbert creator claims. Scott Adams’ May 27 appearance on Bill Maher’s Real Time should be compulsory reviewing for all of us. The creator of Dilbert revealed himself as not just a guy with a sharp sense of humor, but a...

By definition, effective satire challenges power structures, be they political, social or cultural, in a way that is generally offensive (by design) to the subject being satirized. It's no surprise then that satire as a genre tends to come under attack when faced with conflicts/stress points that test the limits of a society.

Why Brexit? Could it be because the European Union has become a messy, bureaucratic, multinational government of, by and for corporate interests? The most shocking thing about “Brexit” — the British people’s resounding vote to pull their country out of the European Union — is that it came as such a shock to the British.

Dave Lippman’s new CD may have the most songs ever totaling less than 48 1/2 minutes. At 19 tunes, they average a brisk 2 1/2 minutes per song, with five of them under two minutes. But Lippman packs a lot into...

My first meeting with a clinical dietitian was similar to the first conversation you ever had about sex. It involved a lot of explanation about things I was pretty familiar with but didn’t completely understand, and then a series of mind-altering revelations that made me feel embarrassed for not figuring it out earlier.

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Recently, a terrorist attack on an Orlando Florida gay bar has been billed in the media as the worst firearm massacre in American history. That isn’t quite true once you check on historical facts.

December 29, 2015 marked the 125th Anniversary of the murder of 297 innocent Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

Attention investors and entrepreneurs! Are you looking for a building already adorned with your ultra-conservative political and religious views? Are you searching for such a building on a sizable corner lot with tons of highly trafficked frontage where your manifesto can be seen daily by tens of thousands of passersby?

The new Lee High School is set to open this fall. However, despite a brand-new sign alerting passersby that the nearly finished building is “Lee High School,” several members of the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board and the community want to distance the school from its current eponym, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

Twice. That’s how often you’ll nearly kill your kid over the course of the court-mandated 18-year sentence you serve as a parent. Accidentally kill, I mean. The number of times you’ll nearly kill your kid on purpose? Typically, too many to count.

Everything has a moment at which it is first available. The question is, when is it OK to talk freely about it and to assume that everyone who is going to see it has seen it?

Some people argue that, if Donald Trump is elected president of the United States, he would usher in the end of the American experiment; he would destroy the republic we hold so dear.Some people argue that, if Donald Trump is elected president of the United States, he would usher in the end of the American experiment; he would destroy the republic we hold so dear. Perhaps. But, even if that does come to pass, I would argue America was destroyed by the most truly American of all the chief executives who have held the highest office in the land.

On a Friday afternoon not too many months ago, I found myself sitting at my desk with a burrito in one hand and Type 2 diabetes in the other. The diabetes was in my burrito hand, as well, since technically, it’s just in me all the time, but I digress.

Long-time Iowa farm cartoonist fired for factual cartoon criticizing Big Ag Rick Friday has been giving farmers a voice and a laugh every Friday for two decades through his cartoons in the Iowa publication Farm News. Now, in a case of blatant censorship in the service of Big Ag, the long-time Iowa farm cartoonist has...