Benedict Cumberbatch’s portrayal of a trans model hurts anyone who has been boxed in by statements such as ‘men don’t cry’ or ‘women are nurturing’. Gender is a … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2015
‘Marco Rubio struck a nerve with his welders comment because he challenged the core from which liberalism draws strength: higher education’
James E. Miller writes: As economist F.A. Hayek points out in his illuminating essay [Read more...]
Bragging about how stupid you are is not attractive
Joseph Epstein needs to hang around with smarter people: For many years I taught an undergraduate course in prose style to would-be writers. At one point in the course I used … [Read more...]
But what about all those Christians who attack abortion clinics oh wait…
Ann Coulter: ‘The West’s importation of Stone Age people is a completely self-inflicted wound’
Ann Coulter writes: Instead of imprisoning criminals, liberal judges in the 1960s decided that we must tackle the “root causes” of crime by addressing PID: … [Read more...]
Dark Corners: ‘Teenage Zombies’ (1960)
Do the rest of Charlie Hebdo need to die? My new Taki’s column
Very "JOOOOOO!!!!!"-y comments this week. I don't even have to look... We were told Parisians’ rapid return to their sidewalk cafés and like amusements was “a show of resilience.” So too, … [Read more...]
As I always suspected: ‘Travel is terrible for your career’
Because everybody always says that travelling to different countries makes you a better person, I always figured that was bullshit. Having done a tiny bit of travelling in adulthood, I now believe that about 50% of that "eye opening" sensation you get from travel is a sort of optical … [Read more...]
Celebrating Thanksgiving Dinner With A White Family For The First Time (video)
Dear America: A bad poem on an old French statue is not an immigration policy
But this guy thinks it is. And he used to work for the CIA’s Counter Terrorism Center in Afghanistan! He also believes that [Read more...]
Jim Goad: The Power of HIV-Positive Thinking
Jim Goad writes: Some bugchasers say they merely operate from a sort of suicidal impatience and simply want to “empower” themselves by taking their HIV infection into their own hands—to be precise, … [Read more...]
Blogging resumes Monday morning…
Until then, you may find me on Twitter and Facebook. Enjoy this week's black & white "Indian Head" test pattern, and some tuneage, including a good post-Paris … [Read more...]