Christopher DeGroot writes: In his younger days Chomsky spoke in that nasal voice that most intellectual men now display. For several decades his … [Read more...]
“Who Can Afford to Write Like John McPhee?”
Malcolm Harris writes: McPhee’s isn’t action painting; if he is painting at all, his brand of composition reminds me most of forgery: He doesn’t … [Read more...]
My address is public. My mother is dead. Rape threats are so 2008.
I also own a gun. "Doxing" is such a laughable weapon. Try harder. … [Read more...]
Joe Bob Briggs: “I worked at a newspaper in Dallas where we had tornadoes all the time”
Joe Bob Briggs writes: I’ve often wondered how “It sounded like a freight train” got so embedded into the DNA of every Texan that people who have never even seen a freight train will … [Read more...]
Michael Barclay and CJR better not google “Auberon Waugh wine column”
THE TORONTO STAR, CANADA’S LARGEST PAPER, on Friday published a column suggesting wines to pair with films from previous years of the Toronto International Film Festival, … [Read more...]
Oh, THAT “gay agenda”…
I will gladly sow gender confusion in kids. It’s my duty to. (via SDA) … [Read more...]
“Memento Mori: How a skull on your desk will change your life”
Yep, I had one for years (albeit a Mexican folk art thing) but just don't have room now. [Read more...]
Will Trump fire “Mad Dog” Mattis for not saying “radical Islamic extremism”?
Guess not, since he didn't mention it yesterday himself, as Mark Steyn writes: ...for the first time since we launched SteynOnline in 2002, we did not re-post material from September 11th 2001 and … [Read more...]
One day all the Boomers will be dead. One day…
Just as [Joyce Maynard] dropped the depth charge of her mother’s quasi-incest into an early chapter of At Home in the World yet expected readers to stay focused on the fact … [Read more...]
“John Derbyshire Tries To Read Genius T. Coates’s Latest Blackety-Black Effusion, Falls Asleep”
Derb: Look: I’m no stranger to hard-to-read stuff. When I was a college student I read all the novels of Jean-Paul Sartre, just … [Read more...]
Bumpkinry: This “American Thinker” column by Ed Lasky is why conservatives can’t have nice things
I clicked on "How to Dry Up Hollywood Funding for Democrats" — how could you not? — with some degree of anticipation. Oh dear. Ed Lasky is absolutely … [Read more...]
Today in our bulging “America vows to pick its own damn cotton next time” files…
David Cole on apparently the most "racist" cartoon ever this week... It’s racist because the black child is “small” compared with the adult. Seriously, I ought to be hardened enough by now that it … [Read more...]