It can’t be some class recognition, since I grew up working class, and couldn’t help but regard the people in Stillman’s movies as very nearly as exotic as the tuxedoed and gowned debutantes and society types in a Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers movie. At first it was their candour and articulate … [Read more...]
‘You! Be! Evic-ed!!’ Funny or Die lays off 30 per cent of its workforce
I didn't see this coming, but I also don't remember seeing anything funny/viral from them in a … [Read more...]
Denyse O’Leary: ‘Planned Parenthood lied to me in 2000, when I was investigating their live baby dismemberment trade for a major American magazine’
Read more! Here's the magazine story. … [Read more...]
‘The so-called conservatives in the media are just as smitten with the New Religion as their paymasters’
TheZMan: Years ago, back in the early Bush years, I met Jonah Goldberg at a NRO fundraiser event. We were chatting and I mentioned Peter Brimelow and he turned pale. The look on his face was what you would expect … [Read more...]
‘The few protesters were foolish and delusional–the numerous Trump supporters were mild and cheerful’
Jared Taylor tries to get into local Trump rally: I was recording interviews, and some of the people had given their full names, so perhaps they were being … [Read more...]
Ann Coulter: ‘If the U.S. Constitution required us to admit more than 100,000 Muslims a year — as we do — we’d already be living in Pakistan’
Ann Coulter writes: Does anyone know what Khan thinks of gays? How about miniskirts? Alcohol? Because I gather we're going to have to turn all our policies over to him, too. What have you sacrificed, Barney Frank?? Muslim … [Read more...]
Sailer: Trump’s ‘lack of verbal fluency’ is precisely what inoculated him from p.c.
Steve Sailer writes: While Turks believe that he who can improvise the most convoluted conspiracy theory (some of which turn out to be bizarrely true) has proved himself the smartest guy in the room, affluent … [Read more...]
Joe Bob Briggs at Taki’s!
Joe Bob Briggs writes: You’ve got the authoritarian reason, the idea that Trump voters want “a strong man like Putin.” Yeah, really? Would that be the same Scots-Irish people who followed John Knox, got kicked … [Read more...]
So as suspected, Millennials aren’t chronically unemployed — they’re just lazy and spoiled
“This was the right thing in terms of strategy,” he said. “Millennials want the access and vibrancy of downtown. [Read more...]
So Hillary Clinton is an INTJ? Another reason not to vote for her
I'm a female INTJ, too. We are very rare. That is good. Jim Goad compares Hillary to Nurse Ratched, … [Read more...]
When an artist finds his muse… Kurt Schlichter on Trump has been a delight this summer
Kurt Schlichter writes: The primaries are over and Trump is the nominee, and instead of whining about it like a Millennial faced with having to get a job we … [Read more...]
My NEW Taki’s column: Could the Last Lion Please Turn Out the Lights?
I can't see how the comments could possibly be "JOOOOO!!!!"-y, but I'm prepared to be surprised: I’m unmoved by the right-wing bumpkinry that mocks antivivisectionism, vegetarianism, or … [Read more...]