Archives for May 2016
Siouxsie Sioux turns 59 today (please kill me)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qdIlzlJ3z0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1iRhLf6wG4 … [Read more...]
‘How many readers know the Boy Scouts sell Trail’s End Popcorn to raise money?’
Don Surber: Men have a legitimate complaint … [Read more...]
‘Negroes With Guns: The Untold History of Black NRA Gun Clubs and the Civil Rights Movement’
Nick Pell on one of my favourite topics: Few are aware that weapons played a pivotal part in the American Civil Rights Movement, specifically through the person of Robert F. Williams. A curious figure in American history, … [Read more...]
Peter Thiel has forced me to side with Nick Denton
What a nut. Flashback: "I can leave now..." And, come to think of it, what seems like [Read more...]
‘What she didn’t know, however, was that Collins had given her notes to Steinbeck, who was busy researching The Grapes of Wrath’
Standing athwart the Edmund Pettus Bridge, yelling ‘Stop!’
Selma, then and now. Your mileage may vary. … [Read more...]
David Cole: The Day Reagan Yelled At Black People (VIDEO)
David Cole writes: “The powerful image of an infuriated Reagan shouting at blacks was highly unusual for a white politician,” George Mason University’s Jeremy Mayer would later write in the book Deconstructing … [Read more...]
‘Bring me Justin Trudeau’s sex tape, gay or straight’
The other Charles Johnson has launched WeSearchr, and this is one of the first "bounties." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMuKbfaHTcg If you're wondering about the "gay or straight" bit, well,[Read more...]
I’ve said it before: I even miss squatters at this point…
Mark Steyn writes: On Wednesday morning, I started the day with Toronto's Number One morning man, the great John Oakley, on AM640. Click above to listen to the full interview. John and I chewed over the state's crackdown … [Read more...]
If you knew your pilot’s name was ‘Mohammed,’ would you still board the plane?
Of course, if you’re flying EgyptAir, the chances are great that your pilot (and co-pilot and who knows who else on board) is named “Mohammed” anyway. But now reports indicate that for Mohammed Shakir, the pilot of the downed EgyptAir plane, [Read more...]
CinemaSins: Everything Wrong With ‘Star Trek: The Motion Picture’ (1979)
Should have mentioned at 4:25 that in the future, acne still hasn't been cured. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8QClFbROf4 … [Read more...]