Following a tedious rendezvous with ovarian cancer, Kathy Shaidle has died, wishing she’d spent more time at the office.
Her tombstone reads: GET OFF MY LAWN!
She is relieved she won’t have to update her LinkedIn profile, shave her legs, or hear “Creep” by Radiohead ever again. … [Read more...]
So I finally get my hair to look the way I want…
and this happens...
Like my (late) mother before me, I've been diagnosed with Stage 3C ovarian cancer.
We won't know precisely what type, or what the tumour grade is, until after surgery on November 15.
I'm mostly posting this to explain why I may be absent from Facebook on and off … [Read more...]
David Cole’s new column at Taki’s…
A thousand never-forgetters crawled out of the woodwork to wail, “Oy, once you compare humans to animals, once you dehumanize them, you make it easy to kill them.” Bullshit. Once you … [Read more...]
Yes, this blog has been awfully quiet lately…
Come on: I've been at this since 2000 — I get bored with it sometimes... These days, you're more likely to find me on Facebook. Yeah, I know... But frankly, thanks to browser "share" plug ins, it's just that … [Read more...]
David Cole: “Adam Parfrey Saved My Life”
David Cole writes: Now, you get that that’s Vice, right? “Current-year” Vice. SJW Vice. And they’re praising a guy who published white supremacists. Therein lies the Adam Parfrey … [Read more...]
“Trump’s self-aggrandizing way of talking about himself has its roots in New Thought, and it’s a type of magic thinking…”
Read the whole thing, by Charles Norman: Your words, thoughts, and beliefs are tools and powers unto themselves that can change reality. Trump, like hundreds of rappers … [Read more...]
David Cole on “Fatty Seatbuckle”: “Did you hear the one about the fat black woman on the plane?”
David Cole writes: In a perfect world, planes would have special quarantine areas for small children and “petty social justice organizers”...although, to be fair, as … [Read more...]
Does This Article Contain Hate Speech? “Facebook is a cancer…”
Jim Goad writes: Facebook allegedly “began to tackle hate speech” around 2005. According to former Facebook general counsel Chris Kelly, the alleged proliferation of … [Read more...]
Why It Was So Easy to Nuke the White House Media Stuffed-Shirt Dinner
A slightly contradictory (Joe, was it Wolfe's "fault" or wasn't it?) but still worthwhile assessment by Joe Bob Briggs: (Don’t call it a roast, as some … [Read more...]
Jonah “Goldberg is frustratingly short on specifics. He seems more concerned with tone”
A MUST-READ by Deion Kathawa at American Greatness, on what Kurt Schlichter calls "the new rules": That speaks to the deeper problem. Goldberg knows perfectly well that … [Read more...]
“Ironically, because of this history of distortion, the statue actually does represent the lynching memorial perfectly”
David Cole writes: The whole thing plays out like a game of telephone. A photo of South African miners at a medical exam became a sculpture of South African miners with their hands … [Read more...]
“Joseph McCarthy died 60 years ago today”
Dan Flynn writes: By the time McCarthy gave his initial speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, in 1950, the Cold War already boasted its primary villain. His name was Joe, too. It is to the … [Read more...]