The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

It’s Like the ‘Reefer Madness’ of Sex

Don’t know where Laura W. found this trailer for the 1967 exploitation film Teenage Mother, but we are all eternally grateful she did: After watching that atrocious dreck, I’m sure you’re asking yourself three questions: Were the 1960s really like that? — Of course not, no more so than life in 2011 is like movies […]

‘UR SO HOT! C MY WANG?’
(Or, #WeinerGate Explained)

Mark Steyn quotes Little Miss Attila in regard to The Story That Won’t Go Away. (“If you experience an erection lasting more than four news cycles, call a spin doctor.”) Attila said: Everyone lies about Twitter-flirting, and everyone knows that everyone lies about Twitter-flirting. Kellie Jane said that it is actually not so unusual for […]

What Da Tech Guy Said

“That I would see something like this in an American city while survivors of the ovens are still alive is obscene.” When I saw what Zombie posted at Pajamas Media, I was so profoundly shocked that I sent out the link on Twitter with a short headline, a link and “OMFG.” Then I tried to […]

Leave the Em Dash Alone!

A Slate columnist has declared war on one of my favorite punctuation marks. If I have to become the em dash’s Chris Crocker, I will.

Stuff Spell-Check Won’t Fix

Sissy Willis re-Tweeted a link to a post at The Anchoress in which Max Lindenman talks about the growing menace of bad punctuation, including people who don’t know the God-Fearing American Way of putting commas or periods inside the quotation marks. Go read Lindeman’s post, and then come back here and we’ll have a little […]

Youthful Ignorance

Megan McArdle observes an important phenomenon: A significant number of teens didn’t know who Osama Bin Laden was until we killed him. I can’t believe it — and yet I do believe it. I didn’t know what Iran Contra was when I was in high school, and I was a sophomore when it happened. Teenagers […]

Israel, Islam and Endogamy

Is heredity destiny? At least one rabbi says so: ‘Gentile sperm leads to barbaric offspring’ Rabbi Dov Lior, a senior authority on Jewish law in the Religious Zionism movement, asserted recently that a Jewish woman should never get pregnant using sperm donated by a non-Jewish man –- even if it is the last option available. […]

Fort Sumter 1861: ‘Strike a Blow!’

Today, a most momentous anniversary is the subject of my column at The American Spectator: Visitors to Princeton, New Jersey, may find there the grave of a former New York state judge who died in 1919 at the advanced age of 90. Judge Roger Pryor was not from New Jersey, however, nor was he a […]

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