George Bang

Purloined pants mystify police

Getting robbed in the course of duty has to really ruin a man's day, but an additional indignity was meted out to a Papa John's Pizza delivery driver at 2 am last weekend. For...

From Raleigh to red carpet in 11 months

When Esperanza Spalding played to a sold-out Steward Theater in Raleigh on March 5, 2010, her potential was obvious to the enraptured audience. However, not even the most sanguine of her listeners would have dreamed that less than a...

Gentlemen or jihadists?

Young men are often “rebels without a cause”. Yesterday, we looked at one dystopic, nihilistic cause that ensnared susceptible young men into a ring of violent jihadism. Today, a far more hopeful vision: the “Gentlemen of Excellence...

Two paths to manhood - part 1

The front page of the Raleigh News and Observer treated its readers on Thursday to a most interesting juxtaposition of two visions for young, troubled and, in most cases, fatherless young men. One, the “Gentlemen of Excellence” program...

ACLU wins one for profanity

In the era of profanity laced rap, movie and musical offerings, it may surprise some to discover that a 98 year old statute barring the use of “indecent or profane language” in a “loud and boisterous manner...

Elizabeth Edwards - political wife - political casualty?

“Of the dead – speak no evil” - ("de mortuis nil nisi bonum dicendum est") is a principle that has much to recommend it. For one thing, those of whom we speak are no longer...

Spontaneous art stuns the unsuspecting

Has anybody noticed what a bad mood this country is in? Instead of “morning in America” we have the Tea Party. Instead of the jolly Gipper, we have Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. That is why there...

Playin' for the wrong team is un-American!

Well, it seems that this column is being taken over by outside contributors! A casual acquaintance of mine, Bubba ‘Bubba’ Fatherlander, who was bumming cigarettes outside the Walmart, collared me the other day and insisted that he...

The Liberal strikes back -

In the interest of fairness, I have allowed the anomymous liberal (we shall call him "Eustace Goodfellow") to speak for himself, now that he has sobered up. I am outraged at the duplicity and sheer effrontery of the...

Open letter from an anonymous leftist to his subjects (oops, fellow citizens!)

The passage of Obamacare on Sunday is indeed one of our proudest moments, and we are right to do a little chest thumping (up YOURS, Neanderthal Teabaggers!) Now we can directly influence almost 20% of the American economy, and in...

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