So much for "People's Liberation" (as usual.) … [Read more...]
Finally: An alternative to the amusingly named London Free Press
London, Ontario may be a major university hub AND boast a small but mighty "right wing" -- but it's always had only one newspaper, pushing received liberal wisdom (and outright b.s.) Now there's an alternative: The Yodeller, a free alt-weekly just like the … [Read more...]
‘It’s sad that this is what passes for humor these days’
Wind-up artist David Thorne is the guy behind one of the funniest things ever. He's finally updated his website: As misery … [Read more...]
‘It will not surprise you to learn that I did absolutely no research on the financial or practical realities of law school’
‘America’s future will be extremely confusing to journalists’
As I keep saying: Read the newspaper upside down -- the real story is in the comments. [Read more...]
Michael Coren: ‘Having known [Rob Ford] for years, I can testify (…) to his sheer human decency’
Michael Coren in the NYDailyNews: This is what explains something that’s far too inadequately understood these days — his enduring appeal among many Torontonians. Just last weekend, he … [Read more...]
I’m pretty sick of hearing about C.S. Lewis too, to be honest (video)
Yeah, I know. Blah. As Anglophilic as I can be, I NEVER got into C.S. Lewis' apologetics. He was just too donnish and cerebral to have anything to say to … [Read more...]
‘Whilst on a vist to New York she had played nurses and patient with JFK, then the president-elect…’
It was bad enough that one of the nurses was Chinese, but the other was suspected of being a Communist from Czechoslovakia. Robert MacNamara, the US Defence Secretary, told a senior FBI agent that he "felt like he was sitting … [Read more...]
Charlie Salmon remembered
As I noted here, the Plastercene Replicas lead singer died earlier this week. [Read more...]
Adam Carolla goes to the L.A. Car Show (video)
‘Israel is no longer issuing birth certificates for ‘illegal infiltrators’ as they call them in Hebrew’
‘Booksellers’ row along Queen Street West is now finished’
Afternoon UPDATE -- David replies to my reply here. *** David Warren writes: Steven Temple Books began … [Read more...]