Archives for April 2016
It would be unCanadian of me not to mark the passing of Phil Kives of K-Tel fame
But wait! There's more! (The Winnipeg Free Press has a selection of commercials, too...) Kives produced a live, five-minute TV commercial — the first infomercial, … [Read more...]
‘The UFO Enthusiasts: Roswell, McMinnville, and… Hillary Clinton?’
Charlotte Allen writes: That was because the proposition that we earthlings have been visited by intelligent extraterrestrial beings, whether from nearby planets or from distant stars, has been an idea with a … [Read more...]
Ann Coulter: ‘Listening to Cruz always makes me feel like I have Asperger’s’
Ann Coulter writes: With Trump it's exactly the opposite. The more people see of him, the more they like him. The usual pattern is: Trump says something perfectly sensible, the media lie about it, then voters find out the truth and … [Read more...]
Women and minorities hardest hit! *
Gavin McInnes: Philadelphia overrun by homeless people — and Muslims
Gavin McInnes writes: Like in London, burqas were everywhere and like Londoners, Pennsylvanians didn’t seem to care. While walking to see the house where Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, we were … [Read more...]
Compare and contrast: Attawapiskat Indians vs. medium sized mammal with no thumbs
Me for years: Neil deGrasse Tyson is Affirmative Action in action
Wired.com finally says the same thing. Kind of. But very bravely uses the analogy of a "black hole" for which they will be crucified. So good on them! Via StreetCarnage: Tyson is an expert at professionally boring everyone, but he does it … [Read more...]
David Cole: ‘I became a blogger because of an image of Michelle Obama Photoshopped to look like an ape’
David Cole on the whole Harriet Tubman thing -- and how the "defacement" campaign will play out in the media: Tompkins disagreed with my assertion that the media purposely highlights racist imagery for lurid or … [Read more...]
Mark Steyn: ‘…there’s no getting away from the fact that Cruz had a very bad night on Tuesday’
Mark Steyn writes: So, barring the intervention of the FBI and the Justice Department into the Democrat primary, the United States presidential election this November will offer voters a choice between Hillary Clinton … [Read more...]
Does mockery work? Alas, Scott Adams says yes.
SDA has been linking to Adams' analysis of Trump's campaign, which he says proves Trump can win. That stuff is pretty cool. I'm late with this, but Adams also weighed in on Bono's "send in the clowns" anti-ISIS … [Read more...]
Canadians ‘fail to understand is just how conservative their country is, and how liberal the United States is by comparison’
Frank Buckley writes: The Great White North is a much more economically mobile country than the U.S., which is increasingly an aristocratic society of fixed classes. One measures these things … [Read more...]