Joe Bob Briggs on fellow Texan Tobe Hooper, the “Last of the Hippie Filmmakers”
I'll self-indulgently remind longtime 5FF readers that I don't think Chainsaw is scary. The "making of...", as chronicled in an instant classic Texas Monthly oral history, … [Read more...]
Mark Steyn: “We are losing. I think that’s undeniable. But why is that?”
Well, we have the best trained and technologically advanced military - and nothing else (...) I've tried to ease up on the "As I wrote some years ago..." shtick, not only because it irritates some … [Read more...]
“Somehow, I’d (deliberately) forgotten that CB radio was the Twitter of the seventies”
DangerousMinds decides (sort of; they add "apparently," in parentheses no less) that "CB radio wasn't just for sad, lonely middle aged men" (somehow … [Read more...]
Steve Sailer on academic affirmative action: “Is something radically wrong with African-American culture?”
Wrapping up his pocket-sized history of affirmative action in American universities, Sailer writes: After a half century of America obsessing over theoretically overlooked blacks, where … [Read more...]
Dark Corners: “Queen of Outer Space” (1958)
I wrote about Queen of Out Space here and here: Along … [Read more...]
David Cole: “What we’re seeing now is the domestic version of ‘denazification.’”
David Cole pens a must-read history lesson: This hysteria and fearmongering is nothing new. Since the end of World War II, every few decades, self-proclaimed “watchdogs” decide … [Read more...]
Mark Steyn: “Did anyone ever say ‘pipperoo’?”
Mark Steyn on "(I've Got a Gal in) Kalamazoo": We no longer have wires or flyers, so that's a moment - America, 1942 - distilled for all time. But, much as I like the rhyme, neither is my … [Read more...]
Jim Goad: “Well, they’re rioting in Missouri again”
Jim Goad writes: Opportunistic whites were quick to condemn the phantom demon of “racism” for what happened between Stockley and Smith. Not one seemed to utter a peep about the idea that … [Read more...]
Rick McGinnis: Dunkirk highlights today’s social divisions
Rick McGinnis writes: A Dunkirk today would be livestreamed and endlessly reposted on social media, and while we might be able to follow the disaster in nearly … [Read more...]
Mark Steyn: Meeting Hillary now “a bargain at only $250/second”
Scott Adams: “I Explain the Persuasion Techniques President Trump is using on The Wall and DACA”
Scott Adams pens an uncharacteristically unconvincing defence. Meanwhile, [Read more...]