Tip-Jar Hitters Don’t Do Davos
Maybe next year your contributions to the Galactic Conquest Fund will be enough to send me to Switzerland to hobnob with the bigwigs, but for now, we’ll have to rely on the MSM to tell us what’s going on there with the Masters of the Universe. Associated Press: The state of the world’s economy, and keeping […]
E-Mail From a Reader
“The President should have prefaced his State of the Union speech with a profound moment of silence, recognizing the many thousands who died tragically in Haiti. Instead, Haiti was practically a footnote in his speech, and the point he made at the expense of all that unspeakable horror was basically how awesome we are. Obama […]
Iran Discovers the N-Word
Evidently, it has an equivalent in Farsi: Mohammad Javad Larijani criticized the policies adopted by U.S. President Barack Obama and referred to him using a racial epithet. “When Barack Obama was sworn into office he talked of verbally engaging Iran,” the U.C. Berkeley graduate was quoted as saying. “What has changed is that today this […]
More LGF Fallout: New York Times ‘Casually Defames’ Filip DeWinter
So says Diana West: As many readers know, I have written extensively about Filip and his party’s courageous political battle to halt and reverse the Islamization of Belgium since I first met him almost exactly three years ago. . . . Diana West is certainly no fascist sympathizer. Unlike Charles Johnson, she’s actually been to […]
Jared Diamond on Haiti
by Smitty This post is prompted by Freeberg. In my pre-blogging days, when I still had time to read stuff, one object of fascination was Collapse, by Jared Diamond. Here is the relevant Wikipedia. I took my copy to work to show to a colleague, which will keep this post mercifully short. What I recall […]
Obama Discriminates Against Foreigners
NTTAWWT: Citizens of 14 nations, including Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Nigeria, who are flying to the United States will be subjected indefinitely to the intense screening at airports worldwide that was imposed after the Christmas Day bombing plot, Obama administration officials announced Sunday. (Via Memeorandum.) Spencer Ackerman appears to be skeptical, which means
The Apocalypse of Culture: People Spend $1 Billion to See Sucky 3-D SciFi Movie
No need to wonder what morons did with their stimulus checks. Two words: Avatar tickets. When “Avatar” opened, its solid but far from stellar results left 20th Century Fox uncertain about whether the $430 million that it and two financing partners had invested to produce and market the 3-D film would pay off. Less than three weeks […]
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