Allies of Convenience May Not Like One Another
Stacy McCain rips most entertainingly into Amanda Marcotte over her anti-endorsement of Santorum. There’s no doubt whatever that Our Amynda is a piece of work with a number of fairly frantic bees in...
View ArticleSo, How Many Kids Do You Have, Mark?
And how many siblings? Mark Steyn points out, quite correctly, that many if not most of the problems of Western society are ultimately demographic: [Greece] has one of the lowest fertility rates on the...
View ArticlePing! [UPDATED]
On the matter of Rand Paul’s being detained by TSA, I see people arguing that the machine pinged, and that Senators should be subject to the same rules as everybody else. Bullshit. It is absolutely,...
View ArticleMegaflops Without Transistors
Schumpeter at The Economist analyzes the failure of “John Carter” the film, and comes up with three rules for making a total failure: First: slaughter a sacred cow. Second: mix oil and water. Third:...
View ArticleGeorge and Trayvon
We didn’t have lynch mobs where I grew up, thanks to an accident of history, but my relatives and neighbors knew the principle and discussed it. If you should want one, this is how it’s done. The good...
View ArticleMartin-Zimmerman: A Counterfactual
“Whatchu doin’ hyar, boy?” Some years ago, my boss and I were on the way home from a business trip, and decided to stop for the night at the home of a mutual friend who lived in a gated community in...
View ArticleSelective Dependence
The feminist message I responded (favorably) to was independence. Women are perfectly capable of managing their own affairs without being dependent on men, and should (or must) assert independence...
View ArticleDemocrats say: Blacks and Women Incompetent
We got it from “Julia”, who is so flaccid and incapable of self-direction that she needs the helping hand of Government in every phase of her life. Now we get it about black people: The prepared...
View ArticleBubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble
One of the supporting arguments for a free press is what I’ve seen described as the “leprosy argument”. Rulers tend to become isolated from the people they govern; there are many mechanisms promoting...
View ArticleSome Assembly Required
Prof. Reynolds has another theme, and I wish others would pick up on it. It’s another of many reasons to rage at the leftoid hijacking of the hippie “movement”. Prior to SDS, Ayers&Dohrn, and the...
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