In which I pass through misanthropy into an irrational hatred of inanimate objects. Again, I cannot imagine how the comments could be "JOOOOOO!!!"-y, but (again) I've been surprised before... The space … [Read more...]
Julie Burchill: Unconditional love is a dangerous delusion
Julie Burchill writes: The only unconditional love I’ve ever given was to my beloved son Jack, who killed himself last year after many years of struggling with mental … [Read more...]
Peter Hitchens: ‘…the empty, wet seats (…) beautifully sum up my view of the Olympics’
Peter Hitchens writes: The country I am thinking of is East Germany, the self-styled ‘German Democratic Republic’. You may remember the superb figure skater Katarina … [Read more...]
Jim Goad: Is Hillary Clinton a brain-damaged invalid?
Jim Goad writes: Why is there a recessed hole on her tongue the width of a dime? Is it where her Council on Foreign Relations robot chip was implanted? Or is it where an especially severe oral herpes … [Read more...]
Blogging resumes Monday morning…
‘I’ve never seen a National Treasure whose head I didn’t have a strong urge to shove down the nearest toilet’
Even when she’s dead wrong, Julie Burchill is the best. James Delingpole has a saner … [Read more...]
Journalists! Your moral and intellectual superiors!! (Toronto Star edition, redux)
I wrote about the Mad Men-style mess at the "progressive," do-gooder Toronto Star (a.k.a., The Daily Scold) here, and while nowhere near as entertaining as [Read more...]
The Church and Islam: The Next Cover-up Scandal
William Kilpatrick writes: For example, Pope Francis recently justified his view of Islam as a pacific faith by citing Dr. Ahmed al-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar: "I had a long conversation with the imam, … [Read more...]
‘If this were the 80s it could be a British punk concert’
These conservatives no longer wish to conserve; they wish to burn. (...) The first thing to strike me was I'd never experienced a "conservative" event so … [Read more...]
Joe Bob Briggs: ‘I can prove to a mathematical certainty that The New York Times will endorse Donald Trump for president’
Joe Bob Briggs writes: Here’s David Shipley, former op-ed editor of the Times, explaining in 2004 how it works: “If the editorial page…has a forceful, long-held view on a certain topic, we … [Read more...]
‘I was surprised,’ I said to my friend afterwards, ‘because they were skinheads.’
‘They weren’t skinheads, silly,’ he said. ‘They were bald! You need to stop making assumptions, and start wearing your glasses more often.’ … [Read more...]
“Lucky Number” was source code for the New Wave movement…
I’ve been thinking a lot about this song lately for no reason. But yes, it WAS very affirming to see a woman on TV who wasn’t selling sex, even in a video for a love song (about a devoutly independent loner who catches love, like a cold — and concludes, after some analysis, that she doesn't hate … [Read more...]