OMG: ...Hicks' brand of political commentary is the sort that, had he not died of pancreatic cancer in 1994, might … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2014
‘Code Red’: A fine poem — with a flawed premise
You don't stumble across such things very often these days, particularly when the poet is one of those "MFAs in Creative Writing." (Whatever did Kafka and Rilke do without such things...?) But technically,[Read more...]
John Derbyshire: ‘Well, that’s been a depressing few days, hasn’t it?’
John Derbyshire writes: That’s the disparate impact argument. Statistical disparities like that can only be the result of malice toward blacks: of racism. Since these disparities have barely changed across an entire … [Read more...]
London gangster and Monty Python inspiration ‘Mad’ Frankie Fraser dies aged 90 (video)
I like how the BBC feels it has to explain what a "borstal" is now... Fraser's methods of torturing the gang's victims earned him the nicknames "Mad Frankie" and "The Dentist" - he was reputed to pull out people's teeth with … [Read more...]
‘Although ‘Bunny Lake Is Missing’ features a pop act in it and was made in the mid 1960s, it’s actually the antithesis of ‘Swinging London.”
Actually, there's some evidence that Swinging London was the antithesis of Swinging London. But that's another post... Via [Read more...]
Why do people still trust Gateway Pundit?
He gets so much wrong, it's ridiculous. And as I suspected, too: In fairness, one critical detail reported by many conservative and MSM sources last August was that Office … [Read more...]
What Happened to Jewish Comedy? (video)
Via Macleans: The Jewish strain in comedy is increasingly viewed as belonging to a lost era. When Joan Rivers died, she was celebrated as an old master who defined what we thought of … [Read more...]
Dark Corners’ 100th review: ‘Black Sleep’ (1956)
Even Dangerous Minds commenters mock them for calling anti-Jap WWII Bugs Bunny cartoon ‘racist’
Fag... When I watch the 70-year-old “Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips,” however, it just makes my face burn and sweat pool in my shoes. It’s a long, uncomfortable, ugly eight minutes. Caveat spectator. For … [Read more...]
Steve Sailer: Low Information Looters
Steve Sailer writes: In 2010 I read a short police blotter item about a Drug Enforcement Agency officer fatally shooting an 18-year-old in a parking lot near my favorite Barnes & Noble … [Read more...]
Michael Mann too chicken to face Mark Steyn in court
Mark Steyn writes: The most interesting thing about today's hearing at the DC Court of Appeals was that Michael E Mann was a no-show. In this interminable procedural bollocks now well into its third year, … [Read more...]
Honest Trailers: ‘Love Actually’ (video)
Wow, now I don't ever have to watch the whole thing. … [Read more...]