TIME.com: Before the crisis started, Greece was proud to be at the bottom of the list in Europe for the number of suicides, with a rate of 2.8 per 100,000 inhabitants. But that might be changing. Experts … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2011
Are t-shirts the bumperstickers of conservatives?
Mark Steyn writes: At a small airport the other day, I saw a passenger with a popular attitudinal T-shirt slogan patiently submitting to an enhanced gropedown from the TSA. It was a … [Read more...]
Perfect time to remind everyone that John Wayne Gacy was a Democrat
If you ask me... … [Read more...]
Glenn Beck: when I was at CNN, they had a deaf sound engineer
And a control room director with Tourettes. (Free webcam.) … [Read more...]
Stonewall: Every June 28, gays celebrate the night the cops tried to stop the Mafia from blackmailing them
by busting up their all-white middle class booze can. Awe inspiring! Back in 1994, Bruce Bawer called for the de-mythologizing of Stonewall in a cover story for The New Republic: Today, however, Stonewall is not … [Read more...]
‘Despite the vast numbers of illegal aliens, they don’t comprise much writing talent’
Sailer writes: And that lack of competition makes illegal immigrants popular among American journalists. Nobody from Chiapas is going to take their jobs. The broad lack of white collar talent among illegal … [Read more...]
My review of David Mamet’s ‘The Secret Knowledge’ is long overdue
The publishers were kind enough to approach me and offer a review copy of The Secret Knowledge: On the … [Read more...]
I’m so old, I remember when being ‘poor’ meant you didn’t, you know, own a car
Like my mom and I. And "Section 8" was M*A*S*H talk for "crazy..." It was clear that Liza Jackson’s luck had changed when she drove her pearl-white Dodge sedan, … [Read more...]
‘Here are Orwell’s rules, edited…’
‘Girls as young as one are being forced into sex change operations in India by parents desperate for a son’
‘My objection to these laws is very primal’
Mark Steyn writes: Accept for the sake of argument that racism is bad, that homophobia is bad, that Islamophobia is bad, that offensive utterances are bad, that mean-spirited thoughts are bad. So … [Read more...]