Archives for May 2014
Bunny Yeager: An appreciation at The Selvedge Yard
Soon Bunny Yeager (the girl … [Read more...]
Ed Driscoll: Speaking Truth to History Channel
Ed Driscoll writes: Both of the History Channel ads for Hitler and Stalin imply that the horrors of World War II passively transformed these men, implying that they were as much victims of the … [Read more...]
Theodore Dalrymple: The Sporting Lie
Theodore Dalrymple writes: But the Olympic Games repelled me from the first, with their nasty political overtones both childish and sinister, their obvious cheating (did anyone really believe that Tamara … [Read more...]
Don’t be too thrilled by that UKIP landslide
Now that UKIP has achieved unprecedented power in the EU, their demand that that institution be dissolved will grow quieter and eventually be … [Read more...]
Regularly scheduled blogging will resume Monday morning…
Remembering the making of ‘…if?’ (1968) – video
DangerousMinds: Cast and Crew brings together the key individuals involved in the making of If…: producer Michael Medwin, writer David Sherwin, … [Read more...]
Brain implant turns man into Johnny Cash fanatic
(Weirdly enough, the same thing happened to thousands of country-music-hating hipsters about ten years ago!) “Mr B reported that he felt good following treatment with DBS and that the songs of Johnny Cash made him feel even better. From this moment on, Mr. B. kept listening simply and solely to … [Read more...]
NEW Talk Radio Watch: Weekly recap of conservative talk radio highlights
My NEW Talk Radio Watch column is now up! Enjoy free audio highlights from the week in conservative talk radio:
- Rush Limbaugh on the VA scandal
- Glenn Beck on a big Tea Party … [Read more...]
Ed Driscoll on CNN: Where News Goes To Die
Ed Driscoll on that irritating background noise you hear at the airport: ...their business model is built around making CNN ubiquitous so that it’s every viewer’s go-to first choice when there is a … [Read more...]
‘Reduced to a sentence, Wade says that genes have a lot to do with human outcomes’
Fred Reed writes: Its major conclusions have been accepted or suspected forever in every blue-collar bar in the country. Yet they are a shock in faculty lounges Races are genetic subspecies, slightly … [Read more...]
Gavin McGinnes: Ten Lessons For the Sons of Single Moms
Gavin McInnes writes: Single mothers give their sons self-esteem problems, but it’s not too little. It’s too much. You should not have directed Iron Man 3. You should not be editing … [Read more...]