A thousand never-forgetters crawled out of the woodwork to wail, “Oy, once you compare humans to animals, once you dehumanize them, you make it easy to kill them.”Bullshit. Once you … [Read more...]
Yes, this blog has been awfully quiet lately…
Come on: I've been at this since 2000 — I get bored with it sometimes...These days, you're more likely to find me on Facebook. Yeah, I know...But frankly, thanks to browser "share" plug ins, it's just that … [Read more...]
David Cole: “Adam Parfrey Saved My Life”
David Cole writes:Now, you get that that’s Vice, right? “Current-year” Vice. SJW Vice. And they’re praising a guy who published white supremacists. Therein lies the Adam Parfrey … [Read more...]
“Trump’s self-aggrandizing way of talking about himself has its roots in New Thought, and it’s a type of magic thinking…”
Read the whole thing, by Charles Norman:Your words, thoughts, and beliefs are tools and powers unto themselves that can change reality. Trump, like hundreds of rappers … [Read more...]
David Cole on “Fatty Seatbuckle”: “Did you hear the one about the fat black woman on the plane?”
David Cole writes:In a perfect world, planes would have special quarantine areas for small children and “petty social justice organizers”...although, to be fair, as … [Read more...]
Does This Article Contain Hate Speech? “Facebook is a cancer…”
Jim Goad writes:Facebook allegedly “began to tackle hate speech” around 2005. According to former Facebook general counsel Chris Kelly, the alleged proliferation of … [Read more...]
Why It Was So Easy to Nuke the White House Media Stuffed-Shirt Dinner
A slightly contradictory (Joe, was it Wolfe's "fault" or wasn't it?) but still worthwhile assessment by Joe Bob Briggs:(Don’t call it a roast, as some … [Read more...]
Jonah “Goldberg is frustratingly short on specifics. He seems more concerned with tone”
A MUST-READ by Deion Kathawa at American Greatness, on what Kurt Schlichter calls "the new rules":That speaks to the deeper problem. Goldberg knows perfectly well that … [Read more...]
“Ironically, because of this history of distortion, the statue actually does represent the lynching memorial perfectly”
David Cole writes:The whole thing plays out like a game of telephone. A photo of South African miners at a medical exam became a sculpture of South African miners with their hands … [Read more...]
“Joseph McCarthy died 60 years ago today”
Dan Flynn writes:By the time McCarthy gave his initial speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, in 1950, the Cold War already boasted its primary villain. His name was Joe, too. It is to the … [Read more...]
Jim Goad: Revolt of the Involuntary Celibates
Jim Goad writes:The most compelling evidence for this is not only the 4chan lingo, but the fact that the timestamp on the post was alleged to be 1:27PM EST. But surveillance … [Read more...]
David Cole: “…here’s what should haunt Josh Howard, and here’s what makes his festival wins so ironic”
By the way, Cole is right about Breitbart: He smeared Shirley Sherrod. It's why I can't get fully onboard with the "Andrew!" worship.He also sounded and acted like an unrecovered alcoholic/addict and/or untreated manic depressive, and owed a duty to his wife and children to take better care of … [Read more...]