Penelope Trunk writes: My career advice ran in 200 newspapers, I … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2014
‘Camp partly as the homosexuals mean it as private sorrow’ (*)
(*) Surprisingly "deep" look at the British "camp" humor tradition. (Background on [Read more...]
‘As New York reverts back to the era of Bronson’s Paul Kersey and DeNiro’s Travis Bickle…’
Ed Driscoll looks back, and forward: As Heather Mac Donald noted this past week, “thousands of black men are alive today who would have been killed years ago had data-driven policing not brought down the homicide … [Read more...]
Theodore Dalrymple: The Allure of Omnipotent Explanations
Theodore Dalrymple writes: This was typical of the anti-Semitic iconography of the time, but not just of … [Read more...]
Mark Steyn: ‘One likes to assume that the moral equivalists are at some level just putting us on…’
UPDATE: A reader notes that while the Spanish Inquisition accounts for 3,000 to 5,000 deaths over 350 years (and Muslims killed that many on 9/11), no one talks about the Spanish "Red Terror" during … [Read more...]
On their way from Amazon…
I always buy/pre-order a lot of books this time of year, whether I get a gift card or not... [Read more...]
Screen Junkies nominates ‘Best Comedy Sequels’ (video)
They should have billed the parade as a ‘Kwanzaa Looting Extravaganza’ instead
People in #SouthLosAngeles disappointed by lack of turn-out for #Kwanza parade. Parade lasted 10 mins. #CBSLA [Read more...]
‘The Extraordinary Life of Barack Obama’s Imaginary Son’
Har: In his life, Obama’s imaginary son has been shot at, concussed out of football, and racially profiled. Yet he keeps picking himself up and carrying on. Obama’s imaginary son should be an example to us … [Read more...]
It must help that Mexico’s murderers have decamped to America…
One is that the 21st-century spike has not undone a massive reduction in homicide that Mexico has enjoyed since 1940, comparable to the reductions that Europe and the United States underwent in earlier centuries. The other is that what goes up often comes down. [Read more...]
This week in 1979: The Concerts for the People of Kampuchea
Some astonishing performances (although not one of The Who's best.) Alas, the double album has never been released on CD, and the film version only features excerpts like the ones below. I don't even know if full footage exists. … [Read more...]