Archives for April 2011
Bull**** for a Sunday Afternoon
* From our, "yes, there really are people like this" file: NEW 5+ hour podcast of old Loveline radio segments, lovingly … [Read more...]
Best answer yet to ‘but they’re just a tiny minority of extremists…’
George Jonas: Don’t rely on the possibility, or even probability, that a majority of people within any hostile and despotic country would prefer to live in a democratic system and coexist in peace and friendship with … [Read more...]
Because victims are the new heroes
In the early 20th century, crazy people thought they were Napoleon or Teddy Roosevelt, and were locked up. Beginning in the mid-20th century, crazy people thought they were victims -- of satanic ritual abuse or alien abduction -- and encouraged to roam the streets. [Read more...]
‘They’ve gone door to door in mostly black Birmingham neighborhoods, leaving fliers that portray me as a liar and racist’
This is quite simply the weirdest thing I've read in a long time: ...two weeks ago, with the county in financial crisis, I wrote a light-hearted column on celebrities (nine white and five … [Read more...]
Huffington Post pay flap ‘eerily similar’ to Comedy Store dispute
Yep, there already is a book about that. And yep, it would make a great movie, and I'm sure it's been in … [Read more...]
‘It’s not every day that a sitting president takes cues from a sex columnist who once licked Gary Bauer’s doorknob’
A Lutheran pastor ponders Dan Savage's twenty years of influence: But for all his prowess as an advice writer and viral activist, Savage’s most lasting influence on American culture may ultimately … [Read more...]
Marvin Gaye: ‘it’s easy to imagine him as some itinerant angel who was finally poisoned by the Earth’
HiLoBrow on Marvin Gaye (a tribute that blessedly avoids the "boxers or briefs" debate over Here, My Dear...) Also shared with Prince is a sacred-and-profane obsession; rock & roll is erotic gospel and songs … [Read more...]
‘India’s gender disparity is the worst ever’
Via Vdare: The society remains deeply patriarchal, where boys are valued and girls are not. Unmarried young men can easily be drawn into gang crime or anti-social political … [Read more...]
Now if she’d just work on her gag reflex, she could have a hell of a career
Talk Radio Watch: March 28-April 1
My new Talk Radio Watch column is now up! Enjoy FREE audio and webcam clips from the week in conservative talk radio, including:
- Mark Steyn sits in for Rush Limbaugh
- Revealed: the … [Read more...]
Men watch women. Women watch themselves being watched.
Studies!! As Tracy Clark-Flory of Salon put it, girls are more likely to be thinking during intercourse, “‘Do my breasts look OK from … [Read more...]