Lots of comments already (ironically): Because, you see, “Women Aren’t Welcome on the Internet.” So says Amanda Hess at the Pacific Standard. She relates some of the higher profile examples … [Read more...]
Today in yesterday: ‘Spinal Tap’ released (1984)
Jim Goad: One Nazi Wedding Cake To Go, Please
Jim Goad writes: I know someone who works in a sushi restaurant, and she says she dreads black customers because they are routinely rude, loud, and they never tip. Doesn’t forcing her to serve them … [Read more...]
I’m so old, I remember when ‘Crash’ (2004) was ‘Grand Canyon’ (1991)
The Awl presents mostly wrongheaded reasons why this movie is bad. But it's still pretty bad. … [Read more...]
If you’d told Jello Biafra in 1983…
That he'd be selling $65 limited edition skateboards when he was 55 years old... … [Read more...]
Mark Steyn: If I Knew You Were Suing, I’d’ve Baked a Cake
Mark Steyn writes: Through all the years I have been in America, I have been told, whenever I draw attention to some examples from Canada, that Americans are not wussy pantywaist Canadians, and … [Read more...]
Why Is It So Hard For Women to Write About Sex?
Atlantic: To see a narrator put sex at the center of her life in this way—without making a Chelsea Handler joke or a transgressive drama or a victimized tragedy … [Read more...]
Harold Ramis: We Saw Him First, Eh? (My new PJMedia post)
Harold Ramis was an hono(u)rary Canadian: Those of us who grew up watching Harold Ramis on SCTV — before the show was a glint in America’s eye — surely feel … [Read more...]
The other ‘rape culture’: Get raped, win a prize
As I've been saying... … [Read more...]
Americans love bands I’ve mostly never heard of
Note the cluster of old/dead artists in the north-east: … [Read more...]
‘I’m no homo and don’t plan to become one’
"So the subject never came up again and the two of us became great friends and stayed great friends until he died." … [Read more...]
Matt Lewis: When ‘leave us alone’ became ‘bake us a cake!’
Matt Lewis writes: The reason conservative Christians are fighting this fight today is because it’s a firewall. The real danger, of course, is that Christian pastors and preachers will … [Read more...]