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Archives for June 2016
When I say ‘Weed is the abortion of libertarians,’ libertarians pout…
And then they pick this guy... For whatever reason, the Libertarian Party has always attracted what Mr. Libertarian Murray Rothbard called “luftmenschen.” These are the pint-glass philosophers who opine on the need to abolish prisons and legalize incest while imbibing large amounts of liquor (not … [Read more...]
‘Simmons recognized that fandom itself is a form of entertainment…’
...that the theories, agonies, ecstasies, insults, and arguments that accompany sports — or, for that matter, music, movies, TV, and comic books — are as fundamental to the experience as touchdowns and shot clocks, face-offs … [Read more...]
Unpopular Opinion: ‘Night Moves’ Is Better Than ‘Born to Run’
Die-versity: 64% of Last 25 Mass Shooters Were Ethnically Diverse
‘My dad was the doctor who killed Elvis with Demerol; respect for pharmaceuticals is in my genes’
David Cole writes: But I also know that the minute you’re told that a lie is necessary because the ends justify the means, you need to resist, because you’re in the presence of a charlatan, regardless of that person’s … [Read more...]
David Solway: ‘My friend Kathy Shaidle has recently posted a no-holds-barred article on the disaster of ‘hate speech’ legislation…’
David Solway writes: Shaidle is writing specifically about society’s embrace of transgenderism and the legal crusade against dissenters, but the issue, implicit in her contestation, is larger than that. In … [Read more...]
‘Thiel just crucified the most notorious dissenter of Silicon Valley and called it ‘philanthropy”
Cody Brown writes: With a single wire deposit, Thiel has made a tabloid that covers Silicon Valley untenable as a business. What media entrepreneur can afford to … [Read more...]
Tarek Fatah: ‘Steyn was right and I was wrong’
Tarek Fatah writes: Steyn wrote: “We are witnessing the end of the late 20th-century progressive welfare democracy. The children and grandchildren of those fascists and republicans who waged a bitter civil war for the … [Read more...]
Steve Sailer: Was the Juice on the juice?
Steve Sailer writes: Seriously, the reason the conventional wisdom has such trouble making sense out of the Simpson story is because O.J. epitomizes how beloved blacks had become by American whites in the last third of … [Read more...]
My NEW Taki’s column: Is This Pope Catholic?
"JOOOOOOOOZZZ!!" get a break this week! Such are the epochal times we’re living in that even timeworn truisms are at risk of obsolescence. Take “Is the Pope Catholic?” Those of a certain age may prefer Steve Martin’s absurdist gloss—“Does the Pope shit in the woods?”—but the original has been … [Read more...]
Jim Goad: Is Allah an LGBT ally?
Jim Goad writes: But despite that curious exception for homosexual pedophilia, early Islamic leaders and scholars were nearly unanimous in their encouragement of the death penalty for faggin’ off. Muhammad’s direct successor … [Read more...]