Whoopi Goldberg’s disclaimer on the new Looney Tunes collection gets Tino thinking about the Root Cause of everything that annoys him.

Available at K-Mart.

Tino goes to the mall, and finds it an unrewarding experience.

The Brady Campaign doesn’t like Florida’s gun laws.

We over-use and over-venerate the term 'professional'. The resulting societal attitude is not helping.

Annoying, crude anti-male sexism still appears to be a growing trend. This time, it's courtesy of Victoria's Secret.

Superstars often behave like spoiled children.

Over 2300 words, ultimately about the nature of the online media and how what people write online isn't as much of a Window Into Their Souls as you might think it is.

Why is the idea of women doing violence to men seen as so amusing and sophisticated?

A Dr. Pepper ad, ‘Nanny 911’ on Fox TV, and bratty kids. No real conclusion, just some observations.

It’s not as if the GOP isn’t just as annoying as the Democrats.

I've about had it with BoingBoing; my blood pressure can't take it. The Boingers are pretty plugged in and good at finding interesting things, but too, too much of their stuff recently is just mean-spirited leftist whingeing, when it isn't outright leftist threats or racism.

DC Activism explained in two sentences

Bill Cosby’s remarks on the state of the black ‘community’ have finally produced some responses. Tino provides a recording of his speech.

Bill Cosby lets some truth slip out at a recent dinner and points out that the black community deserves at least some of the credit for its own current state; the NAACP, of course, disagrees.

Extreme Dummies: people who cannot be helped by foundational instruction like that found in the ‘Dummies’ books

Different cultural values lead to different outcomes. Who knew?

We allow old people to do a lot of things that inconvenience the rest of us, but we’re going to have to stop this practice as the number of old people grows.

Spalding Gray played a small part in True Stories.

Is the U.S. education system really that bad? Is it possible that its apparent dysfunction actually serves a purpose?

A real-world example of scorn, rather than horror, for wrongdoers.

An interesting juxtaposition of headlines on the front page of today's Washington Post

Paris Hilton is the beneficiary of a masterful PR campaign. The 'news' media fails to see it for what it is, though.

McDonald's is upset at the inclusion of 'McJob' in the new edition of the Mirriam-Webster dictionary. Tino manages to extract from this a rant partially about urban planning and Marxism.

Even the movie reviews in the New York Times are examples of knee-jerk pinkoism

Tino examines and criticizes a BBC survey on what the world thinks of the United States.

Tino's comments on the results of a BBC poll on the greatest American of all time

Smith college wants to have it both ways, at the same time barring men but taking care not to offens transgender students by using feminine pronouns in its student government documents. This exposes the central incoherence of the Smith worldview.

Hillbilly Love Triangle. Need I say more?

An examination of the possible causes of academic cheating.

The disappearance or weakening of social roles in our society is at least partly to blame for today's extreme and unhealthy anxiety about children's safety.

Overly-emotional awards acceptance speeches by celebrities seem to be quite the thing.

School discipline and order in lower-class neighborhoods seems to be nonexistent, by intent.

Having a made-up first name makes it harder to get a job. Who'd have thunk it?

William Raspberry points out the biggest problem with race politics in America today.

The ethics of zero-tolerance policies, especially as proposed to be practiced by the Catholic church.

The whole "minority" thing has got completely out of hand. A Boston Globe story seems to have been written for the specific purpose of pointing out the problems.

TV networks cut or electronically blur “sexual” content in movies, while running ads for phone sex lines during the same film. Tino is left scratching his head.

Class, not race, is the most-important factor in American life. This should be good news, since class mobility is relatively easy in America, while you can’t change your “race”. Unfortunately, the country persists in thinking that people are discriminated against because of the color of their skin, and not because of their lack of middle-class values.

Constant corporate restructuring is one of the causes of suburban sprawl in the USA.

The EU is ultimately doomed to irrelevance or tyrrany.

The day is fast approaching when people will be constrained, 'for their own good', from eating in ways that the nagging classes consider to be unhealthy.

Vintage Tino! Tino is not comfortable with constant (and seemingly insincere) public professions of religious faith.