Mark Steyn: There used to be a formulation of cynical news editors to determine American news priorities for mass murder. It ran something like: 1,000 dead Bangladeshis = 100 dead Italians = 10 … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2013
The chase scene in ‘The French Connection’ is worth any number of little old ladies
...only one of those vehicles was being driven by an actor -- the one that crashes with Hackman's car was just some dude who came out of his house and drove into the … [Read more...]
How can ‘c*nt’ be #5?
I don't understand "c*nt"'s recently acquired toxicity. "C*nt" is just "dick," no? Women needed something new to bitch about, I guess. And how is "cameltoe" even on there? ([Read more...]
‘Math is hard,’ say leftists, or: Four is not a ‘coalition’
When I was a leftist, one of my gripes was the overuse of "coalition." A coalition is "a group of groups," not just a really big group. Or in this case, a … [Read more...]
‘It seems I survived the Holocaust without really knowing what racism was until Queen’s [U.] Code of Conduct came along’
When George Jonas dies we are going to be so f*cked... There's a smug sense of discovery in academic definitions that I can only describe as galling. Its pride of authorship in … [Read more...]
Adam Carolla on gay marriage, race, class (video)
Yep: … [Read more...]
Dear Thatcher haters: I thought you WANTED to shut down coal mines…
‘The Fear of Being Called Phobic’
Jim Goad: It’s pretty fucking depressing that the UFC, one of the last bastions of unabashed grunting-pig maleness left in popular culture, has capitulated to these caterwauling … [Read more...]
The Company They Kept: My NEW Taki’s article
About the legacy of the Weather Underground: Weatherman co-founder Jeff Jones, who—don’t you hate when this happens?—”was unexpectedly caught up … [Read more...]
Or as I like to call it, ‘The Nick DiPaolo Show’
Splitsider remembers Lucky Louie. (Har: I didn't know this. I mean, I know … [Read more...]
‘The red flag on my chest somehow is like an elephant in the corner of the south’
Not since "I set out to get you with a fine tooth comb..." Oh, man. … [Read more...]
There are too many ‘disabled’ parking spots
I rarely agree with Liz Jones -- in fact, this column sounds like it was written by someone else entirely. Maybe she finally got laid? … [Read more...]