‘[I]f you’re heading off to university this year, there has been no global warming since before you were in kindergarten’
Not satire: Obama nominates Mumia lawyer to DOJ Civil Rights division
‘[A]ll of these grotesque caricatures tend to make me like Italians…’
John Derbyshire: Downton Abbey fan
My mother was one of these rebels. That spell of domestic service convinced her that any other kind of employment would be preferable, so she became a professional nurse. I’m not sure I would have been of the … [Read more...]
How did mentally unstable and/or ex-drug-using gays get to adopt two kids again?
Scaramouche speaks from personal experience: It's tragic that the husband of former Toronto mayoral candidate George Smitherman committed suicide. It's also tragic that the pair's two young … [Read more...]
Nobel Peace Prize follies: Aung San Suu Kyi makes Mandela look good
Once a human rights icon whose determination in the face of a brutal dictatorship won her the Nobel Peace Prize and the adulation of crowds in Rangoon, the city of her birth, and abroad, where she spent much of her life, she’s now become something crass—a politician, and not a particularly good one. … [Read more...]
Original audio of Apollo 13 incident in real time
It’s the original archived audio from the Apollo 13 incident, about an hour in length, starting a couple of minutes before the explosion and running through the initial … [Read more...]
Two more ‘Day the Clown Cried’ clips released New Year’s Day
Agreed: ‘Time After Time’ (1979) is fun
If you're watching this trailer and thinking, "Wow, this reminds me of that even-numbered Star Trek movie where they end up in modern day San Francisco..." there's a reason for that, as Alan Spencer explains. … [Read more...]
Steve Sailer on ‘white food’
In contrast, the Pure Foods Movement that WASP ladies (many of whom were also in the temperance struggle) started after the Civil War sought to find remedies for their more open and mobile culture. One was federal … [Read more...]
Least shocking story in a long time:
Dude who works at Mediate is a weird gay con man. No, it's not that Tommy Christopher kid, alas... … [Read more...]