I find myself knowing a lot about the L.A. Unified School District, thanks to Adam Carolla. Now here's David Cole: In 1984, L.A. decided to crack down on the address falsifiers. Dozens of kids, all … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2017
Jim Goad: “Indigenous Peoples Day exists (…) to honor those who were too technologically backward to defend their own land”
MUST READ —Jim Goad writes: They will also fail to mention why Christopher Columbus sought funding to head west across the great blue ocean in search of Asia in the first … [Read more...]
Snotty Foreigner with Weirdo Accent: Watch Mark Steyn on Greg Gutfeld’s show
Jordan Peterson and Camille Paglia in conversation
Thanks to the loyal 5FF reader who sent me this link: … [Read more...]
Mark Steyn on “the absurd fetishization of ‘Indigenous’ sensitivities” in Canada
Mark Steyn writes: Treaties are between contracting parties, usually nations but, in this case, the Crown and "First Nations". It is unclear to me in what sense an ordinary citizen can "observe" a … [Read more...]
African-American men still get “branded”. It’s just voluntary these days
Christopher DeGroot writes: Ordinary people, of course, also bear out human nature’s powerful inclination to idolatry. Playing basketball over the years, I have … [Read more...]
Joe Bob Briggs: “Despacito” for Gringos
Who says Puerto Ricans are good for nothing?? I've never heard this song and don't care to, especially since it's so … [Read more...]
For Decades, New York’s Chinatown Duped ‘Slum Tourists’ With Faked Danger and Depravity
Cheap holiday on other people's (exaggerated) misery, as the law of supply and demand inevitably kicks in: Slumming is a tourist practice that made its way to the … [Read more...]
Sailer: “Nobody washes a rented car and nobody treats Puerto Rico like it’s his or her own country”
Steve Sailer writes: Puerto Rico is a test case of whether nationalism is as dispensable as the heightening conventional wisdom assumes. (...) ...as demonstrated once again by the … [Read more...]
Camille Paglia: Hugh Hefner as Trump’s role model
Read the whole thing, as always: Before the election, I kept pointing out that the mainstream media based in Manhattan, particularly … [Read more...]
“He seemed broken hearted…” Tom Petty’s best song wasn’t a Tom Petty song
I've never been a fan. I always resented either his or his record company's marketing of him as a "New Wave" singer/songwriter in the Elvis Costello mould, although I understand that at his (relatively advanced) age, they were all eager for him to finally break through after years of thankless … [Read more...]
“Krauthammer’s law generally holds — in Krauthammer’s world”
I've said for a while that we need to retire: People on the right think that most people on the left are wrong; people on the left think that most … [Read more...]