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Kathy Shaidle's blog. Est. 2000

The Monkees singing Spanish Christmas carol in newly restored HD version

December 16, 2015 By Kathy Shaidle

Looks and sounds pretty awesome: So I'm telling Arnie about the restoration, saying, "And it turns out that their car in the opening credits was red … [Read more...]

Milo Yiannopoulos: Trump is right about shutting down parts of the internet

December 16, 2015 By Kathy Shaidle

OK, this is interesting... Now, all the internet service providers that together comprise the core of the internet are American. That’s what Trump means when he … [Read more...]

Mark Steyn talks about troublesome Somali immigrants AND the forthcoming Chappaquidick movie

December 16, 2015 By Kathy Shaidle

Which are, if you know your modern American history, closely related. … [Read more...]

Steve Sailer on what ‘The Big Short’ leaves out

December 16, 2015 By Kathy Shaidle

Steve Sailer writes: In reality, the essential cause of the Housing Bubble in what Lewis dubbed the Sand States—Florida, California, Arizona, and Nevada—was that the quantity of population was climbing … [Read more...]

Or better yet? ‘McVeigh-ing’: My NEW Taki’s column

December 15, 2015 By Kathy Shaidle

Last one for the year. I don't think the comments will be super "JOOOOOO!!!!!"-y but I've been wrong before... Confronted with still another example of reality’s refusal to conform to their theories, they … [Read more...]

Jim Goad: What’s worse? Banning them or bombing them?

December 14, 2015 By Kathy Shaidle

Jim Goad writes: Any era in which mere words are considered worse than murder is a dangerous era indeed. The problem seems to be that far too many people are sensing danger in all the wrong … [Read more...]

‘Vets weren’t particularly interested in some of the songs that show up again and again in movies about Vietnam’

December 14, 2015 By Kathy Shaidle

They didn't dislike Edwin Starr's "War," but they didn't need to hear about what they were living. More than anything, they pined for the women they'd left behind. Again and again, their memories gravitated to "My Girl" or … [Read more...]

‘Black People Can’t Swim: Is It True?’

December 14, 2015 By Kathy Shaidle

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Blogging resumes Monday morning…

December 12, 2015 By Kathy Shaidle

Until then you might find me on Twitter and Facebook. Enjoy this week's black and white "Indian head" test pattern, plus some tuneage: [Read more...]

Rosa Parks has a lot to answer for

December 12, 2015 By Kathy Shaidle

As Ann Coulter articulated a few years back -- putting into words something I'd struggled to express since the 1980s -- the Civil Rights Movement valourized belligerence. Yes, [Read more...]

Paglia: ‘Rape culture’ is a ridiculous term – mere gassy propaganda, too rankly bloated to critique

December 12, 2015 By Kathy Shaidle

Gloria Steinem, with her media-savvy aviator shades and blonde-streaked locks, pushed the far more pioneering Betty Friedan offstage to take charge of the nascent women’s movement in the US. At the start, Steinem was great – she normalised the image of feminism and made it seem like a rational cause … [Read more...]

Justin should have said, ‘I’m 31 years old, and I still don’t have a real job’

December 12, 2015 By Kathy Shaidle

Dear world: You can HAVE him, already! … [Read more...]

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