Michael Mann hardest hit: When the IPCC was awarded half of the Nobel Peace Prize back in 2007 (Al Gore won the other half), its chairman profoundly … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2013
John Derbyshire reads ‘Gone With the Wind’
Derb writes: Her sociology is good, too. I learned a lot about the structure of the Old South. The word “cracker,” for example, which some deluded white people nowadays are trying to argue is as … [Read more...]
Guy who invented the word ‘genocide’ died broke
But have no fear: Other people continue to make good livings off his idea! … [Read more...]
Leave it to a Japanese guy to mix up Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima (video)
David Suzuki: Argument for internment... … [Read more...]
‘Popular Science is neither. Discuss.’
Denyse O'Leary told me about this yesterday (and noted that "the publication is not called Academic Science, it is called Popular Science. That, presumably, means … [Read more...]
Fascism: The Leftist ‘F’ Word (and the Death in June bullsh*t)
Nicholas James Pell writes about the Death in June "controversy": If we’re going to start handing out red cards for acting stupid, where does the line get drawn? Why are some groups “beyond the pale” and … [Read more...]
Abel Ferrara, filming in NYC, and ‘Ms. 45’ (1981)
Senses of Cinema: All of his New York-set films are, in a profound sense, period films. It is therefore not immaterial that Thana walks into gang territory deep into … [Read more...]
My idea about replacing libel suits with duels gaining traction!
Thanks to the loyal 5FF reader who sent me this comment thread, prompted by [Read more...]
I was gonna write: ‘Last semi-sane man in Austin is single, ladies!’ but…
He's a 9/11 truther, so forget it after all. But mostly? It's sad that this guy is considered [Read more...]
Even liberal Bob Beckel says: No more new mosques in U.S. until Muslims get it together
RawStory: And I will repeat what I said before: No Muslim students coming here with visas. No more mosques being built here until you stand up … [Read more...]
Cruz to Limbaugh: ‘If you had to sit through one Senate lunch, you’d have to go to therapy’
WND: At noon Wednesday, in accordance with Senate rules, Sen.Ted Cruz, R-Texas, ended his marathon 21-hour anti-Obamacare speech. Noon happens to be the same time Rush … [Read more...]
Sailer: Stranger in a WASP Land
A MUST READ at TakiMag: Continuing my intermittent series reinterpreting American history, it’s worth reconsidering what The Graduate was actually about. Looking back from nearly a half-century later, The … [Read more...]