Hispanic dude in pro-Palestinian t-shirt sings "Guns of Brixton": GUNS OF Brixton could be the very zenith of the kind of ‘wiggerism’ many Clash critics point to in … [Read more...]
Archives for January 2014
You’ve Got To Be Kidneying! (My NEW Taki’s column)
(I like my title better.) “Because people have two kidneys but need only one to live, we all have a spare,” Winter fairly chirps before reassuring us that “kidneys would not be taken … [Read more...]
Rush Limbaugh’s suggestions for ‘State of the Coup’ address
WND: Limbaugh offered the president an idea for a new program to help place all young people on a fair and equal footing as they enter the job market: “All teenagers will be required to get high on the drug … [Read more...]
‘My guess is the lack of African DJs is because the organizers wanted someone to respond and confirm quickly’
Bwa ha ha!!! Hard to pick one "funniest bit" out of this depressing and pathetic story -- thanks to the loyal 5FF reader who sent it in --but I love that the … [Read more...]
John Waters’ comments about Morrissey better than actual Morrissey
Before Justin Bieber there was… Michael J. Fox?
Brian Johnson's last Maclean's article looks back on almost 30 years of celebrity interviews: The first movie star I interviewed was Michael J. Fox, when he was a 26-year-old riding high on the success of Back to … [Read more...]
This comment made my week, and it’s only Monday morning:
Charles Cooke: If meaning can be so easily misinterpreted, how far must we go to avoid controversy?
Welcome to my world. Which is precisely why I … [Read more...]
Today in yesterday: Whitney Houston sings The Star Spangled Banner at the Super Bowl (1991)
‘Steyn, laboring under the mistaken impression that Americans have some sort of ‘freedom of speech…”
Indeed: While discussing that possibility in a post on Saturday night, he quotes a remarkable statistic from Conrad Black: "The US has 5 percent of the world's population, 25 percent of the … [Read more...]
Brazil’s Barbarians at the Mall
Jim Goad writes: This led to at least a half-dozen malls in São Paulo obtaining court orders to block such future events, allowing them to station police and security guards outside who could bar entry to … [Read more...]
‘The unarticulated question raised by the New York Times article is…’
Except I've got a different one than Richard Fernandez. The New York Times wrote this article based on one man's public bankruptcy filing. They asked him to comment and he said no. I don't blame … [Read more...]