Earlier this week, we featured a series of zings courtesy of the master of insults, William Shakespeare. Feeling inspired by Shakey, we asked you, dea...
Dori Hartley | Posted 05.13.2012
One minute later, with the guy still on the phone, I no longer cared. Elvis had left the building.
Dorian de Wind | Posted 05.13.2012
"Despite the best efforts of everyone from Erica Jong to Kim Cattrall, women are still seen through an erotically censorious prism, and promiscuity is still the ultimate putdown."
Carolyn Bucior | Posted 01.31.2012
Just one child. Just a waitress. Just an average student.
Daniel Cubias | Posted 08.26.2011
It stands to reason that as America grows more multilingual, we'll hear more Spanish on the airwaves. And some of that Spanish will be of the naughty variety.
Telegraph | Henry Samuel in Paris | Posted 05.25.2011
Couples who insult each other over their physical appearance or make false accusations about infidelity face jail, under a new French law making "psyc...
Vaishali | Posted 11.17.2011
Words can only harm you if you capitulate to the assault. You existed before other people with bad manners and questionable choices of words, and you will exist after.
Mark C. Miller | Posted 05.25.2011
Sigmund Freud said, "The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization." Indeed, throughout history, insults have packed powerful political, social, and cultural punches for civilization.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
True/Slant is cracking down on name-calling -- or at least name-calling that's not sufficiently Proustian -- according to a memo sent out by editorial...
Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011
Jesus said that we should love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us. I invited Beck to a civil and respectful conversation about the issues at stake here, but he has chosen a different path.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ben Craw | Posted 05.25.2011
Remember the '80s? Big hair, hot cars, pulsing music... and bullies. Bullies everywhere. Although now extinct, the '80s bully was at one time one o...
Joan Williams | Posted 05.25.2011
Obama's doing a great job keeping the focus on the economy. Let's not blow it on the cultural front.
Posted 05.17.2012