Progressivism Is the Ultimate Comb-Over
by Smitty Althouse links the NYT: Shaving your balding head is like breaking up with someone before he or she can break up with you. Or like marching into your boss’s office and saying: “You can’t fire me. I quit.” After all, nothing screams “gradual decline” like thinning or retreating hair. It’s a constant voice […]
Roxanne Doesn’t Have To Turn On The Red Lights. She Does Anyway; Dad Didn’t Teach Her Otherwise
by Smitty No, I don’t mean Roxeanne de Luca specifically. Or prostitution in the Secret Service sense. I mean, emphasis mine: Now, let’s cut through the drivel: play-acting at being married with someone to whom you have not committed will delay that commitment, or finding the person you really want to commit to. Acting like […]
Lena Dunham, Sandra Fluke, Joy McCann
One of them’s got an HBO series called Girls and has been called “The Voice of Her Generation,” because . . . I dunno, because magazine editors need angles for feature stories. Anyway, 26-year-old Lena Dunham says (perhaps unintentionally) revealing things in interviews: If you notice my mincey language, it’s just that I’m still shedding the […]
Profiles in Narcissism: Charles Johnson Blinded by His Own Self-Righteousness
Among the books I most often recommend are The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy (Thomas Sowell, 1995) and The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations (Christopher Lasch, 1979). Thoughtful readers familiar with both books will understand how the phenomenon described by Sowell — liberals […]
Hey, Lefties, It’s Sunday: Are You Finding Joy In Life?
by Smitty Bluegrass Pundit points to CNS News: The more often a person attended religious services, Gallup discovered, the more often they experienced positive emotions and the less often they experienced negative emotions. The less a person attended religious services, the more they experienced negative emotions and the less they experienced positive ones. People who […]
You Will Love Big Brother As Much As Big Brother Loves Loving You
by Smitty Trot over to The Tatler for news about who is adapting “1984”. Hint: this workout will cover some mighty familiar territory for those propaganda mongers. Update: more at Breitbart.
Obama in 1990: America ‘Mean-Spirited’
While a student at Harvard Law School in 1990, Barack Obama was interviewed by the Associated Press in an article the Illinois Daily Herald headlined, “Harvard student tackles racism at core“: America suffered when the movements of the 1960s dissipated, he said. Those movements succeeded in raising doubts about harmful traditions of sexism and racism, […]
Explosive: Obama’s Mentor Derrick Bell on ‘Jewish Neoconservative Racists’
John Podhoretz at Commentary on the controversy unleashed by the Breitbart.com video: Michael Powell of the New York Times reflected conventional opinion in liberal media circles when he tweeted: “Derrick Bell, Radical? We’re to pretend our history cleansed? He fought 4 Civil Rights in Mississippi.” It is incumbent on Powell and others, if they want […]
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