DangerousMinds: On Christmas Day, 1977, the … [Read more...]
Barbara Walters: Happiness is Holding Fidel Castro’s Gun in My Lap
Well, OK then... The December 23 edition of People magazine looks through old pictures with Barbara Walters as she “looks back on her most memorable moments” in five decades of television … [Read more...]
Is the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame racist? My NEW Taki’s column
Comments should be Jew-tacular! If the Jews really ran show … [Read more...]
Reminder: Kwanzaa was invented by a convicted felon, celebrates geographically-challenged Marxism
I've been at this for years, so here's my annual round up post. … [Read more...]
Wrongheaded, exasperating pain in the ass still cracks me up and I hate myself for it
Over the next few months until the record was released, for most of which Joe remained in Los Angeles, Jim Jarmusch came out to the city. Hanging out with Joe, the grateful film director thanked him for the acknowledgment on the song “Shouting Street” (...) “I said, ‘Joe, you name-checked me … [Read more...]
‘In constant dollars, 1971′s Billy Jack is the most successful independent film ever made’
Because it had something for everyone: Pacifist hippies getting beaten up by rednecks. Semi-Indian decidedly non-pacifist kinda hot friend-of-the-hippies beating up the rednecks. Quaker teacher rape. Howard Hessman prepping for his WKRP role. And soooooo 70s: a peace-and-love … [Read more...]
Nope, but Jesse Jackson sure is a crook
5 Movies Based on True Stories (With Depressing Epilogues)
Cracked.com: Invictus is the Clint Eastwood film about how one rugby … [Read more...]
From our bulging ‘Apartheid: Was It All Bad?’ files
Theodore Dalrymple writes: The event that saved his historical reputation was not under his control. It was the downfall of the Soviet Union, for it was surely not a coincidence that the … [Read more...]
‘Although Santa Claus doesn’t exist, I am nevertheless convinced that he is white’
Jim Goad writes: Aisha writes of the shame and pain and confusion and heartache she’d experience every holiday season (...) Aisha failed to note that if she were still living in her ancestral homeland, she … [Read more...]
It’s a Wonderful Foutainhead
Ed Driscoll on those two tales of two architects. … [Read more...]
Finally: Bad photo of Paul Simonon located
I knew the challenge was daunting. The abysmal quietude of my inbox confirmed it. Then, around noon, a loyal 5FF reader sent in this picture with the message: Took a bit. … [Read more...]