Via the History Channel: Back home in the United States, Bill Haley and the Comets were already passé. Their role in launching the rock-and-roll … [Read more...]
Regularly scheduled blogging will resume
Today, as a change from our normal black & white "Indian head," here's our version of the BBC's full color "Test Card F": … [Read more...]
Today in yesterday: Karen Carpenter, Lux Interior die (1983 and 2009)
Trebuchet Magazine: Lux created the monster that was The Cramps together with Poison Ivy (Kristy Wallace) in the early 1970s. Legend has it Lux and a friend picked her up as a hitchhiker and they remained … [Read more...]
Today in yesterday: Happy Birthday, ‘Alice Cooper’
DM: ‘I’ve become lovable now. It’s great to get to play a villain on stage, but everybody knows I’m not a villain.’ In fact, the man once regarded as a … [Read more...]
What’s the difference between ‘sex education’ in Malawi and at your kids’ school?
Oh, those wacky backward primitives! "You should sleep with a man and get rid of child 'dust.' If you don't do it, your body will get diseased." A demonstration involved one … [Read more...]
Will storms of special snowflakes shut down schools?
Call it the Battle of Allergiers: Kids with imaginary problems (and their irritating parents) to collide in the coming Service Dogs vs. Epi-Pen Wars, … [Read more...]
Richard Klagsbrun: Roger Waters is still a creepy, overrated, bitter old bigot
Eye on a Crazy Planet: But before getting further into that, let's just take a moment to address the myth that Roger Waters is a "musical genius." What a load of … [Read more...]
David Mamet talks to Hugh Hewitt about Philip Seymour Hoffman (and SodaStream)
If I Had a Sickle: My NEW Taki’s column, on Pete Seeger
I owe Alex at HollywoodLoser a bunch of beers for suggesting that title. (And yes, there's a typo that needs fixing. My [autocorrect] bad. They've been alerted.) [Read more...]
Adam Carolla on Rob Ford (oldish but funny)
Terrible: Barry Rubin, tireless champion of Israel and the West, passes away
More here. IsraellyCool writes: Having met online at least a year before making Aliyah, we … [Read more...]
Philip Seymour Hoffman had been clean for 23 years before he relapsed in 2013
A sad reminder that your addiction is always waiting quietly, in that dark corner, to pounce again. It's never "gone." Those contrarian "experts" like Theodore Dalrymple … [Read more...]