"The IRS tea-party audit story isn’t Watergate; it’s worse than Watergate." That's the new meme, and I get it. But, as I keep saying: Many of these "tea party" groups are, as Ann … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2014
Northwestern’s journalism school diplomas have a typo
Results of the Sotheby’s rock and punk auction
I'm taken aback by what didn't sell, like a sanely-priced With the Beatles signed by all four, whereas a Candlestick Park poster did sell and for way above the … [Read more...]
Culture Crash: Today in ESL Clash fans
They're all either Spanish or Asian, but these ones are French I think. The lead "singer" must own the van or something. … [Read more...]
Better a Crook than a WASP: The Left Ditches Progressivism
Steve Sailer on that, plus this week's "disruption" controversy... One of the less heralded developments of recent decades has been the decline of appreciation on the left … [Read more...]
‘JFK and the Wrecking of the Presidency’
What JFK did, then, was to lay the foundation for a federal government with an explicitly royalist identity and a unionized government class with job security but no accountability, and who had the power to … [Read more...]
Trailers From Hell: ‘The Thing’ (1982)
Gary Oldman wimps out, apologizes
‘Well-groomed young women who do not take drugs are pretending to be excited about attending Glastonbury Festival’
Satire: However others are struggling to maintain … [Read more...]
Jim Goad’s new book is out
StreetCarnage: Jim Goad has carefully analyzed piles of insane stalkers and linked their patterns in a great new book called The Headache Factory. He used real names too which is going to make those … [Read more...]
‘Heritage Foundation Fired Richwine Over Truth About Immigrants–Now Wants To Cash In On Brat vs. Cantor’
How Yiddish linguistics ‘doomed itself’
This story shouldn't surprise anyone... Threats of legal action are par for the course. So are character assassinations, pseudonymous academic hits, accusations of lunacy, and denials of … [Read more...]