Cheap holiday on other people's (exaggerated) misery, as the law of supply and demand inevitably kicks in: Slumming is a tourist practice that made its way to the … [Read more...]
Sailer: “Nobody washes a rented car and nobody treats Puerto Rico like it’s his or her own country”
Steve Sailer writes: Puerto Rico is a test case of whether nationalism is as dispensable as the heightening conventional wisdom assumes. (...) ...as demonstrated once again by the … [Read more...]
Camille Paglia: Hugh Hefner as Trump’s role model
Read the whole thing, as always: Before the election, I kept pointing out that the mainstream media based in Manhattan, particularly … [Read more...]
“He seemed broken hearted…” Tom Petty’s best song wasn’t a Tom Petty song
I've never been a fan. I always resented either his or his record company's marketing of him as a "New Wave" singer/songwriter in the Elvis Costello mould, although I understand that at his (relatively advanced) age, they were all eager for him to finally break through after years of thankless … [Read more...]
“Krauthammer’s law generally holds — in Krauthammer’s world”
I've said for a while that we need to retire: People on the right think that most people on the left are wrong; people on the left think that most … [Read more...]
Hugh Hefner’s “Playboy pitch was for the gamma male who fancies himself an alpha…”
I haven't written as much about [Read more...]
“The shadow of the permissive culture that paid for Hefner’s mansion looms over the proceedings.”
By sheer coincidence, this look back at the 1973 novel Other Men's Daughters appears in the latest issue of BookForum. … [Read more...]
Joe Bob Briggs: “‘Take a knee’ in football used to mean ‘run out the clock.’ We really need some other term.”
Joe Bob Briggs writes: But then that brings up the question of what to do if the person who’s actually singing “The Star-Spangled Banner” wants to take a knee. This is especially hard for women … [Read more...]
ScreenPrism: “A Clockwork Orange” (1971) – The Glamorous Psychopath”
“Maybe after this I will buy a camera with a better lens”
People read meanings that aren’t there into photographs, because they are looking for [Read more...]
Just Tommy Robinson getting his own daily show and stuff…
Steve Sailer: “…almost nobody on the left or the right is willing to think about the relationship between college rape and college football”
Football will be the death of America. Steve Sailer writes: White spectators like to conceive of their team’s black players as defending the homeland. The ability of black football players to … [Read more...]