I have a first sentence I still haven't bothered to use in 30 years. I doubt I'll get around to it now. And maybe that's all it should have been. Anyhow, this is interesting, … [Read more...]
‘Gordon Lightfoot Records Are the Best 99 Cents You Can Spend’
Gordon Lightfoot sounds like Canada. You can be almost anywhere in the country (I'm leaving out the far north) -- a kitchen party in Newfoundland, downtown Banff, a farm in Saskatchewan -- and if a Gordon Lightfoot single comes on the radio, it sounds like THE soundtrack for wherever you … [Read more...]
‘Network’ was a documentary
And a reminder from David Cole that "fairness" is for children... There are many examples of incidents that disprove the meme that the Oregon occupiers would have been immediately slaughtered had they … [Read more...]
Johnny Ramone and the Hard Hat Riots
As told by Marky: Being in a van at all hours of the night gave me a chance to learn a lot more about John than when he dropped by the apartment in SoHo to pick up Roxy. His dad was a blue-collar guy. John’s … [Read more...]
‘Get your ‘I Have a Dream’ fortune told at a 1-800 number…’
...make a cake with “Batter from a Birmingham Jail”; drink an “I’ve Been to the Mountain Dew Top”; if you’re lost, use the “Where Do We Go From Here” GPS; play in the “Edmund Pettus Bridge Tournament”; get a lottery ticket for the “SNCC Six” game, where you win if you rub off the names of a … [Read more...]
TrailersFromHell: ‘Duel’ (1971)
A little TV movie that helped inaugurate "The Seventies Film," as "existential dread" dripped down from the elites and started being felt by average, unintellectual people. … [Read more...]
Mark Steyn’s ‘America Alone’ thesis turns ten
Mark Steyn writes: A few weeks before The Wall Street Journal published my piece, I discussed its themes at an event in New York whose speakers included Douglas Murray. Douglas was more optimistic: … [Read more...]
Sailer: What would a Trump presidency be like? Look at Poland
Steve Sailer writes: Which of the two parties is more to the right is a question of perspective. While Tusk’s Civic Platform is usually considered more centrist, Kaczyński’s Law and Justice … [Read more...]
Dark Corners: ‘Tarzan, the Ape Man’ with Bo Derek (1981)
Catholic teacher takes class to see gay-themed ‘Kinky Boots’ for lesson in ‘diversity and acceptance’
Mark Steyn: ‘Canadians are dead, and so is satire’
Mark Steyn writes: Six [Catholic] Quebeckers get slaughtered by Islamic terrorists in Burkina Faso, and to honor their memory [Read more...]
My NEW Taki’s column: The English Way of Cancer
My attempts at mounting a Grand Unified Theory fail once more... This recently deceased trio had two other things in common: They were Englishmen. And apparently none of them had … [Read more...]