Can we adjust the definition of “racist” for a day or two? Hold on, maybe not. Maybe we’ll just print a column with… According to Mary Elizabeth Williams (hmmm… sounds like a white person’s name, am I racissss?) over in Salon: It’s not racist to sue over a mixed-race baby. However, that’s not really what…
Roger Kimball explains Britain’s Turner Prize in all its philistine slaying glory: What makes the Turner Prize pathetic as well as noxious is its banality, its utter predictability. The Prize pretends to be daring, challenging, transgressive, original. But the only thing it successfully transgresses is our patience. As for originality, its penchant for scatological eroticism…
Start here. Camille Paglia in Time: The Modern Campus Cannot Comprehend Evil “Colleges should stick to academics and stop their infantilizing supervision of students’ dating lives, an authoritarian intrusion that borders on violation of civil liberties.” Strange, I thought for sure she would mention California. Seattle PI: California adopts ‘yes means yes’ sex-assault rule “De…
The Internet Aristocrat, whose epic YouTube rant, Quinnspiracy Theory: The Five Guys Saga, really set the tone for #gamergate, has released a good video chronology of the story, GamerGate Part 1: The Path We’ve Taken, with a slew of links he references posted below. For the clued-out, #gamergate is about the discovery of corruption in the…
How does western civilization end? My friend The Ambler sent along this link to “We’ll Become ISIS” on James Kunstler’s Clusterfuck Nation blog. Clusterfuck is going with a bang-type finish, assisted or accompanied by a convulsion of male violence: “My guess is that they will shift their attention and activity from the mind-slavery of the…
My apologies for not having a better picture of the above. Scratch that. I should apologize for even posting this picture because it’s not the photo I wanted to use. Truth be told, I don’t have the photo I want. That would be picture of Link Byfield, my old boss at the Alberta Report. According…
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