"Too Fat To Fit Through the Eye of a Needle" -- My latest at Taki's: Murray’s findings overturn plenty of received wisdom, left and right. His … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2012
Hey, that works out great
All the news three months after it happens: National Post reading my blog again
If I'd pitched this story the day Carolla delivered his anti-OWS rant (in November), they'd have a) turned it down or b) taken it and not paid me. So basically they went with b), but in … [Read more...]
‘Freelance Copywriter who can write like Malcolm X speaks’
Less than two weeks away
Grandfather of ‘health food’ movement an amoral huckster
As you had guessed: Starting with his birthdate, which he pushed back to 1881 in order to give the impression he looked much younger than his years, Bragg lied his way to prominence as a lecturer and nutrition adviser to … [Read more...]
‘Is it possible there’s a separate gene that makes people annoying?’
Jim Goad: But as an inveterate mocker of leftist contradictions, I will note that the SAME people who are INSISTING homosexuality is entirely genetic are precisely those … [Read more...]
‘Get off of the plantation. Massa is dead.’
This would have been my mom’s reaction if I’d brought home an Italian, too
Come on -- this is probably fake, but still funny: Because why: … [Read more...]
Malcolm Gladwell is Phil Spector without the talent
Mark Steyn sits in for Rush Limbaugh today
‘It was all better under Thatcher’
Noel Gallagher chats with the Daily Mail: It would have been beautiful if, after the MPs’ expenses scandal and the bankers’ bonuses scandal, people took to the … [Read more...]