Archives for April 2017
Reminder: School shootings started in Canada, not Columbine. And schools are the problem, not guns.
As I was saying: You won’t hear this from Michael Moore, but modern school shootings are a Canadian invention, too, and I don’t just mean 1989’s “Montreal Massacre.” Despite the absence of a so-called “gun … [Read more...]
I could watch Corman’s “The Wasp Woman” (1959) every day. Now it’s on Blu-Ray.
Once again we see that, in the tradition of Carrie, Repulsion, The Brain That Wouldn't Die and Rosemary's Baby, men make the best "feminist" art: First up is THE WASP WOMAN, a … [Read more...]
Gavin McInnes: Proud Boys Declare Victory in Berkeley
Gavin McInnes writes: After we were disarmed, the police must have had orders to stand down because they completely vanished. Soon after, the protesters surrounded the event and … [Read more...]
“Some of the best GOP stumbles in recent memory have involved (…) Hitler or rape”
David Cole writes: But here’s the thing: With most incoherent GOPs, there is, at least, an underlying set of ideological principles … [Read more...]
“Creative women with less attractive faces seem to be perhaps penalised in some way”
What did we do before “studies”? In one test, there was a 100-word text based on "The Lovers," a surrealist painting by Rene … [Read more...]
“Who on earth wants to live forever with the people who want to live forever?”
I met my first transhumanist around 1986, and assure you that Steven Poole is absolutely right: The apparent paradox, then, is that so many transhumanists, … [Read more...]
Steve Sailer: “Since the downfall of the Gestapo, nobody has treasured the verb ‘interrogate’ as much as postmodern academics”
Steve Sailer writes: The Hitlerian vocabulary of Studies professors suggests that although we hear so much about the dangers of the “alt-right,” we ought to learn more about the “ctrl-left.” The counterpart … [Read more...]
Penelope Trunk: “Silicon Valley is a perfect storm for middle-class domestic abuse”
Meet your OTHER moral and intellectual superiors, ev'buddy! Silicon Valley is full of shit. The feminist narrative of Silicon Valley makes me want to stab my eyes out. … [Read more...]
“The Battle(s) Of Berkeley–Someone Is Going To Get Killed. Where Is Trump?”
James Kirkpatrick writes: Regardless of what happens in Alabama, it is also all but certain there will be another … [Read more...]
“Norman Podhoretz’s War on the Haters and the Losers”
Written by Jeet Heer tho: While Podhoretz would’ve called himself a liberal in 1967, all the traits that led to his shift to the right in the early 1970s were already present in Making It. In … [Read more...]
Dark Corners: “She Shoulda Said No” (1949) and “The Devil’s Weed” (1936)
Although I don't find anti-marijuana "mental hygiene" films as self-evidently amusing as most people... … [Read more...]