Derb writes: IQ studies suggest that at least part of the problem in big under-achieving populations like sub-Saharan Africans or Native Americans is that these populations don't contain enough … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2010
Mark Steyn’s special podcast for Presidents Day
I demand stricter professor control!
Why you suddenly stopped hearing about the most recent school shooting: UAH professor Dr. Amy Bishop [me: who you can tell is a leftist just by looking at her...], … [Read more...]
Actually? This may be the first black President
I've seen Allan West speak before, and met him privately. He is impressive. And extremely candid. If we have to have politicians, it may as well be guys like this. We'll see. [Read more...]
Holy *$%&!
Guy from Botswana writes: I hope black people will learn a lesson from the earthquake that hit Haiti.
If they don’t learn anything from it, then I throw up my hands in despair and give up. … [Read more...]
Calling all female Tea Partiers and Founders fetishists
You just gotta have this "powdered wig" pendant. Also: Zazzle is marking President's Day with a sale on t-shirts, mugs and more. Save up to 30% with code PRZWNSKSALE10 [Read more...]
‘It’s time to stop cringeing to the bigoted ‘anti-racists”…
writes Peter Hitchens: Most of them are actually anti-Britishists, hiding their loathing of this country behind a facade of liberal piety, a facade that is sometimes very thin indeed. … [Read more...]
‘Don’t blame the Na’vi, mind you…’
They can hardly help it if another imaginary people tries to steal their brand identity. … [Read more...]
‘The case against banning the word retard’
A must-read: As I was growing up in the 1970s, my father worked for the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation, one of the now-renamed state agencies. The term … [Read more...]
War of the Poses: antebellum notes on Yvette Vickers
An appreciative reader writes (cue Ken Burns style voice over...): In spite of the fact that I've given up alcohol, tobacco and vinyl, there's something about that recent photograph that appeals to me.
The model, Yvette Vickers, is [Read more...]
‘I’ve been thrown out of better places…’ (with update)
Arnie writes: Much to my disappointment I was denied access to tonight's IslamoPalooza ThugFest - see the flyer below, I was declared "media non-grata" (note to self - next time … [Read more...]
Being old has its advantages
Papa's gotta brand new old bag: I remember in the 70s when the so-called environmentalists had paper bags removed from supermarkets in British Columbia so they could replace them with plastic bags in order to save … [Read more...]