"Anthrax-laced letters that killed five people and severely rattled the post-9/11 nation may have been part of an Army scientist's warped plan to test his cure for the deadly toxin, officials said Friday. The … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2008
Rare Toronto “Viva Steyn” t-shirt sighting
I keep forgetting to mention: last Friday noon, I was walking past the Eaton Centre when I spotted a young, hip looking guy wearing one of these:
Partly due to sheer shock, I couldn't summon the nerve to … [Read more...]
Small Canadian publishing company for sale
Perhaps not surprisingly given his present circumstances, author Howard Rotberg is selling … [Read more...]
“Old man” Rick McGinnis dares to “mock the memory of Hunter S. Thompson”
One Babbler objects in no uncertain terms to Rick's evil right wing white man capitalist "LIES!" PS: … [Read more...]
Thanks to everyone yesterday…
who went shopping through my Amazon.com links! After numerous requests, I've finally added an Amazon.CA banner for my Canadian readers. I put it off for a long time, not wanting to cause confusion. But let's try it and see. It will remain at the very top of this page -- let's see how it does. … [Read more...]
Roger Kimball: Can Britain survive multiculturalism?
Back to family matters. Mr. Hurd interviews a woman called Gina Kahn, who left an arranged marriage and now lives in hiding for fear of her life. As Ms Kahn notes, whenever radical … [Read more...]
Alexander Solzhenitsyn dies, aged 89
"Solzhenitsyn's unflinching accounts of torment and survival in the Soviet Union's slave labor camps riveted his countrymen, whose secret history he exposed. They earned him 20 years of bitter exile, but international … [Read more...]
Levant’s nemesis tells CBC: “I have never faced persecution…”
So why did he charge Levant with spreading Islamophobia and cost him $100,000 in legal bills? No mention of any of that nastiness in this -- surprise -- CBC article. The comments are equally clueless. … [Read more...]
Another meme in the making: “Death or pizza?”
What would be do without our moral and intellectual superiors in the mainstream media? I tried it and it smelled like dead baby pizza. PS: Is nobody else gonna comment on how Dominos' former owner … [Read more...]
Let’s hope they drove very, very slowly
Insensitivity Training: Chris Rock
“I see black people say, ‘It’s not us, it’s the media that makes us look bad.’ Cut the fucking shit. When I go to the money machine tonight, I ain’t looking over my back for the media. I am looking … [Read more...]
New meme? “I hate sandcastles”
This photo made me cry a little bit. That poor little kid with the bucket. But the other kid's face... Dear God, I feel so very, very guilty for kinda liking this:
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