Archives for January 2016
Gavin McInnes: ‘What’s worse, being killed by a terrorist or being killed by a mass shooter?’
Gavin McInnes writes: So much of these two opposing Americas come down to a simple question: What’s worse, being killed by a terrorist or being killed by a mass shooter? The left insists all this terrorism … [Read more...]
What? Muslim men are entitled-yet-talentless belligerent assholes?! Quit joshin’ me!
The [German] woman, whose identity has been protected [and who has clearly never sat in the back seat of a Toronto taxi cab -- Ed.] , said: "Of course you may not assess all refugees the same: there are many who are very friendly, happy to be here, very grateful, very willing to be … [Read more...]
‘The time Jerry Rubin got totally shut down by a little old lady on TV ‘
Even as a kid, I realized that Jerry Rubin was "the guy the Donohue chase producers booked when Abbie Hoffman couldn't make it." The politics at DangerousMinds is/are mostly exerable, but I keep reading because [Read more...]
Maclean’s: From fighting off belligerent Muslims to playing defense for Islam in ten short years!
Hey, remember this? When what the author calls "the supposed spread and threat of political Islam" TRIED … [Read more...]
‘Trust inequality seems to be a major pillar in the campaigns of Donald Trump in the U.S. and Marine Le Pen in France’
I would posit that there is a “grand illusion” at play — a lingering notion that elites continue to lead and the masses will follow. This historic model of influence was predicated on the … [Read more...]
Exactly. ‘Confederacy of Dunces’ is a tour de force first sentence (OK, paragraph) in search of a novel…
I have a first sentence I still haven't bothered to use in 30 years. I doubt I'll get around to it now. And maybe that's all it should have been. Anyhow, this is interesting, … [Read more...]
‘Gordon Lightfoot Records Are the Best 99 Cents You Can Spend’
Gordon Lightfoot sounds like Canada. You can be almost anywhere in the country (I'm leaving out the far north) -- a kitchen party in Newfoundland, downtown Banff, a farm in Saskatchewan -- and if a Gordon Lightfoot single comes on the radio, it sounds like THE soundtrack for wherever you … [Read more...]
‘Network’ was a documentary
And a reminder from David Cole that "fairness" is for children... There are many examples of incidents that disprove the meme that the Oregon occupiers would have been immediately slaughtered had they … [Read more...]
Johnny Ramone and the Hard Hat Riots
As told by Marky: Being in a van at all hours of the night gave me a chance to learn a lot more about John than when he dropped by the apartment in SoHo to pick up Roxy. His dad was a blue-collar guy. John’s … [Read more...]
‘Get your ‘I Have a Dream’ fortune told at a 1-800 number…’
...make a cake with “Batter from a Birmingham Jail”; drink an “I’ve Been to the Mountain Dew Top”; if you’re lost, use the “Where Do We Go From Here” GPS; play in the “Edmund Pettus Bridge Tournament”; get a lottery ticket for the “SNCC Six” game, where you win if you rub off the names of a … [Read more...]
TrailersFromHell: ‘Duel’ (1971)
A little TV movie that helped inaugurate "The Seventies Film," as "existential dread" dripped down from the elites and started being felt by average, unintellectual people. … [Read more...]