Archives for April 2008
Insensitivity Training, Lesson #4: Julie Burchill and Tony Parsons
Hatred of women is the foundation of fascism, but for sheer vitriolic venomous malignancy, the misogny of the Rastafarians surpasses even that of Hitler's Nazis. To Rasta, man is Stud, woman a sperm receptacle, who couldn't possibly enjoy sex unless she was the lowest whore in … [Read more...]
Rushdie: “We have to get thicker-skinned”
"If we end up going on being this thin-skinned, we’re going to kill each other. So we need to have the ability to hear unpalatable stuff. What would a 'respectful' cartoon look like? The form … [Read more...]
More people need to be mugged by reality
"You know who they are; the ones skewered mercilessly by Tom Stoppard in his marvellous play The Real Thing. Does this sarcastic riff ring any bells? "But when he gets into his … [Read more...]
Carbon Debits: sign me up
"Don’t let the threat of Carbon Credits get you down – take action! Right now you can purchase a Carbon Debit to help offset this insidious danger. With every Carbon Debit purchase we will: … [Read more...]
George Jonas on “Canada’s biggest mistake”
"While we were hard pressed to see evil in such places as Mao's China, inside Canada we had no trouble seeing ourselves as the White Peril. Consequently, we chose being a collection of xenoliths, a.k.a. Canadian … [Read more...]
Hitch to Sully: “Don’t be such a lesbian”
"In an email to The Independent on Sunday, the commentator wrote: 'Don't know what came over me: the dear boy did suddenly seem extremely sapphic, yet I think my … [Read more...]
Pope at Ground Zero to call for terrorists to convert to Christianity
This is likely to cause immense outrage among Muslims, but consider this: most of the time the party line is that the terrorists are hardly Muslims at all, but are perverting and twisting and hijacking a … [Read more...]
Muslims desecrate Catholic churches across Europe
Disgusting. But Fallaci warned them, and they refused to listen: She describes an action in Florence, her hometown, in 1999. As a … [Read more...]
Ronald Reagan: 0
One of my favorite artists, now online
Julie Liger-Belair now has thank you notes to match her mixed media work: More here.
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Just another day in Toronto
"One brief example of the nonsense. Last year a child was shot dead in a Toronto school. He was immediately painted as an angel by everyone around him and that may be true -- it's odd, … [Read more...]