Sparked by the death of Edgar Smith, who was "adopted" by William F. Buckley (as I wrote about [Read more...]
If you’re sick to death of “At Last,” use this Mark Steyn essay as a defibrillator
And allow him to (possibly) introduce you to "Serenade in Blue"... … [Read more...]
Jason Miller: “My Journey from Antifa to Trump supporter”
Yes, this is REALLY long, but just get a coffee then... Sometime before the Toronto G20 while we were in San Francisco I began to see something wrong. Motherfuckers … [Read more...]
David Cole: “On the SPLC’s official list of hate organizations (…) the category with the most entries is “black separatist” — so here’s what we do…
David Cole writes: Maybe the best way to counter this new vernichtungskrieg is through the courts. See, companies like Cloudflare, PayPal, Squarespace, and GoDaddy have the right to … [Read more...]
Jim Goad: “The Hate Machine That Saved the World”
Jim Goad writes: Donald Trump is already a solid contender for the title of all-time world champion of being accused of hatred in the most hateful terms possible. I sincerely … [Read more...]
Mel Brooks, besides not being funny, is wrong about “Blazing Saddles”
Sigh. I've addressed this [Read more...]
“Why do people make such confident and sweeping predictions?”
Allan Maisie writes a rare non-annoying bit, if not in a particularly sparkling way. Loyal 5FF readers can supply their own examples — that darn nuclear war (and accompanying nuclear winter) … [Read more...]
“Some have suggested that [Waugh’s] practice of satire was incompatible with the Christian vocation.”
I want to argue that Waugh could not have been a great satirist were he not a Catholic, and, more controversially, that his satire had its source in appropriation of the truths of Catholicism … [Read more...]
Ann Coulter: They Don’t Call It “The Great Tweet Of China”
Ann Coulter writes: If Trump actually believed what he claimed to believe, he would treat the building of a wall as a far more urgent priority than sending FEMA after a … [Read more...]
“One commenter accused me of rehashing an unsubstantiated claim from a racist website, mainly because that’s the only other mention of the story online”
I've said it at this blog again and [Read more...]
“Their gender has everything (and nothing whatsoever) to do with what made The Slits so great”
I bought Cut when it first came out and I saw it filed in the “import” section of the local mall’s Musicland store (the same bin where I’d also … [Read more...]
“This is what Solzhenitsyn was saying: that if everyone spoke the truth of a morning…”
the Soviet system would collapse by noon. RELATED — Hilariously, this was written by a guy who insists on … [Read more...]