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Archives for September 2017
“Why do people make such confident and sweeping predictions?”
Allan Maisie writes a rare non-annoying bit, if not in a particularly sparkling way. Loyal 5FF readers can supply their own examples — that darn nuclear war (and accompanying nuclear winter) … [Read more...]
“Some have suggested that [Waugh’s] practice of satire was incompatible with the Christian vocation.”
I want to argue that Waugh could not have been a great satirist were he not a Catholic, and, more controversially, that his satire had its source in appropriation of the truths of Catholicism … [Read more...]
Ann Coulter: They Don’t Call It “The Great Tweet Of China”
Ann Coulter writes: If Trump actually believed what he claimed to believe, he would treat the building of a wall as a far more urgent priority than sending FEMA after a … [Read more...]
“One commenter accused me of rehashing an unsubstantiated claim from a racist website, mainly because that’s the only other mention of the story online”
I've said it at this blog again and [Read more...]
“Their gender has everything (and nothing whatsoever) to do with what made The Slits so great”
I bought Cut when it first came out and I saw it filed in the “import” section of the local mall’s Musicland store (the same bin where I’d also … [Read more...]
“This is what Solzhenitsyn was saying: that if everyone spoke the truth of a morning…”
the Soviet system would collapse by noon. RELATED — Hilariously, this was written by a guy who insists on … [Read more...]
“I recently wrapped up reading Mark Binelli’s 2016 tome ‘Screamin’ Jay Hawkins All-Time Greatest Hits’…”
Joe Bob Briggs on fellow Texan Tobe Hooper, the “Last of the Hippie Filmmakers”
I'll self-indulgently remind longtime 5FF readers that I don't think Chainsaw is scary. The "making of...", as chronicled in an instant classic Texas Monthly oral history, … [Read more...]
Mark Steyn: “We are losing. I think that’s undeniable. But why is that?”
Well, we have the best trained and technologically advanced military - and nothing else (...) I've tried to ease up on the "As I wrote some years ago..." shtick, not only because it irritates some … [Read more...]
“Somehow, I’d (deliberately) forgotten that CB radio was the Twitter of the seventies”
DangerousMinds decides (sort of; they add "apparently," in parentheses no less) that "CB radio wasn't just for sad, lonely middle aged men" (somehow … [Read more...]
Steve Sailer on academic affirmative action: “Is something radically wrong with African-American culture?”
Wrapping up his pocket-sized history of affirmative action in American universities, Sailer writes: After a half century of America obsessing over theoretically overlooked blacks, where … [Read more...]