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Kathy Shaidle's blog. Est. 2000

My NEW Taki’s column — Sylvia Plath: King Kong in Reverse

May 2, 2017 By Kathy Shaidle

I like my proposed title better... If death is such a great “career move,” why isn’t Sexton just as famous, and fetishized? Sexton was certainly more beautiful than Plath, whose … [Read more...]

Your moral and intellectual superior: NYT’s David Brooks marries younger chick after dumping wife & kids BUT there’s more!

May 1, 2017 By Kathy Shaidle

He and his new wife are giving a lecture on... character. … [Read more...]

Bruce Springsteen, your moral and intellectual superior, didn’t pay taxes for many years

May 1, 2017 By Kathy Shaidle

Die sooner. … [Read more...]

“Conspiracy’s Grip”: New video from Retro Report

May 1, 2017 By Kathy Shaidle

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Jim Goad: Bill Nye’s Fake Science

May 1, 2017 By Kathy Shaidle

Jim Goad writes (and provides valuable hyperlinks): Unlike the majority of people—who seem to allow their ideology to automatically form their opinions for them—I don’t have an … [Read more...]

“The Exploitation Movie About the Zodiac Killer, Released as a Trap to Catch Him”

May 1, 2017 By Kathy Shaidle

I saw this a while ago thanks to TCM. It was pretty horrible but I still had to watch the whole thing... Via [Read more...]

Blogging resumes Monday morning (assuming there is anybody still out there…)

April 29, 2017 By Kathy Shaidle

I know I've been slack — things have been busier than usual. But here's some tuneage anyhow. Oh, and there will be a BIG announcement soon...   … [Read more...]

It’s Ann Coulter all over again: Mark Steyn notices something different about American readers lately. Me too.

April 27, 2017 By Kathy Shaidle

Yep. Mark Steyn writes about Ann Coulter being threatened at a university (in Ottawa seven years ago) and now (at Berkeley): So here we are seven years on from the show not going on in … [Read more...]

“Joe” (1970) “was a film that divided critics and audiences”

April 26, 2017 By Kathy Shaidle

Cary Edwards at BrightLights: Some people came out of theatres loving a character who had voiced their concerns about society (loving it enough that an LP of … [Read more...]

Mark Steyn: Let’s Build the Wall and Get Canada to Pay for It (video)

April 26, 2017 By Kathy Shaidle

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Paul Naschy’s “Werewolf vs the Vampire Woman” (1971)

April 25, 2017 By Kathy Shaidle

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My NEW Taki’s column, about the history of “fashionable” diseases

April 25, 2017 By Kathy Shaidle

During this same era, “gout...functioned as more than a malady; it was also part of a social code embedding class, rank, affiliation, standing and political position.” The … [Read more...]

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