• About Kathy Shaidle
  • Kathy Shaidle: Privacy policy

5 Feet of Fury

Kathy Shaidle's blog. Est. 2000

Top 45 ‘people who have been trying to control your life since Reason [magazine] was founded in 1968’

July 10, 2013 By Kathy Shaidle

Plus you can vote for your picks…

Includes something to annoy everyone — Sean Penn shares space with Pol Pot and Sheriff Arpaio…

Sample:

A virtual assembly line for fictional authority-worship, [Aaron] Sorkin is the dramatist of choice for progressive technocrats.

In the worlds detailed in West Wing and The Newsroom, all of America’s problems could be solved if those dumb, undereducated conservatives and independents would listen to their incorruptible Ivy League betters.

Sorkin longs for an imaginary golden age of American government that never existed. Bonus points for being just as misogynist as any of the archconservatives he loathes.

More from my site

  • Thanks for your life-saving emailsThanks for your life-saving emails
  • My NEW Taki’s column: On Carrie Fisher, dead celebrity reanimation, and why Star Trek is better anyhowMy NEW Taki’s column: On Carrie Fisher, dead celebrity reanimation, and why Star Trek is better anyhow
  • Which means I have four years to get the hell out of Toronto…Which means I have four years to get the hell out of Toronto…
  • Did Thomas Paine ever admit that Burke was onto something?Did Thomas Paine ever admit that Burke was onto something?

Filed Under: conservative blog

« Problems solved: Target can just sign up Paula Deen
‘Then They Came For Jack Hunter. They Can Have Him’ »

Archives

Copyright © 2026 · Magazine Pro Theme On Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in