It tends to eat its own. So suddenly Ellen DeGeneres, one of the cultural promoters of the modern Left, is in some hot water for a tweet. Yeah, a tweet. Racist? I guess. In our day and age, everything is racism. It is everywhere. It is everything. It surrounds us, penetrates us, binds the country together. And in such an environment, you can bet your bottom dollar that you’re going to be pinged with the ‘Racist’ label sooner or later.... Read more
Is covered here in a not too subtle post. Nuff said. Read more
It will be. So is the modern approach to almost any topic you can imagine. The humanities, already prone to a subjective spin, are particularly venerable to the modern age. Armed with college degrees, access to Wikipedia, and a decaying sense of common standards, if you want squares to be round, there’s almost a 99% chance you’ll come away assured that squares are, and always have been, round. And what’s more, with the right interest groups tugging at the elbow of... Read more
We mean it. Don’t. So archaeologists found a 2,000 year old scroll with spells on it. Matthew Archbold at the Creative Minority Report has some fun running with the implications. Read more
In America we spend an inordinate amount of time beating the crap out of ourselves and our history. I had a friend from Nigeria who once told me, “It’s like you want America to be worse than it was.” Yeah, that’s about it. There’s no lack of books, movies, shows, documentaries, classes, textbooks, courses, reenactments, news series, proclamations, and memorials that remind us of the seedier times in America’s past. Europe is the same, with the caveat that many Europeans... Read more
Scary ghost stories and tales from the glories indeed. It looks like some strange occurrences in Scotland have prompted authorities to turn to the Catholic Church. This is the land of Glamis Castle after all. Glamis hath murdered sleep, and apparently spread its influence around to baffle police in other parts of Scotland. I dunno. As a former agnostic and skeptic, accepting a universe of the supernatural was a hard sell. I still tend to be somewhat skeptical, even with... Read more
When everything your critics say about it seems to be coming true. So Donald Trump is good evidence that the GOP needs to do some housecleaning. I’m at a loss to think of anyone who has concluded otherwise. Likewise, when a black police officer shoots and a black man armed with a semi-automatic firearm who refused orders to drop the gun, the common sense reaction should be ‘that’s terrible, thank goodness the officers are alright.’ Which should be the reaction... Read more
Is a no-no for Catholics. Over here, Dave Armstrong picks apart some of the most common and lame reasons used to support pro-abortion candidates. The most important point he makes is distinguishing between what the Church is currently working out in its teachings, such as the appropriate approach to war and rethinking the death penalty, and those issues that have never been acceptable for the faithful believer, such as abortion, adultery, or homosexuality. A large amount of justification has been... Read more
To a kid my age, Kenny Baker was as important as Frank Sinatra or John Lennon. In 1977, Star Wars mania was just taking off. Unlike today’s prefabricated media phenomena, which rise to a crescendo and then typically, within a few weeks, fizzle away until the Blu-Ray release, 1977 was only the beginning. By 1978, it was in full swing. Some theaters were still playing Star Wars in mid 78. And in those theaters, lines still formed. After all, before... Read more
Donald McClarey posted a fun, quick snippet reminding us that our little American experiment was supposed to fail. Many shared George III’s belief that the colonists would falter, the entire revolution unravel and they’d come crawling back to Britain. Why not? Most revolutions ultimately fail one way or another. Our modern humanities courses, rotting from within due to the twofold infections of Multi-Culturalism and Political Correctness, have given no idea about our country’s history or the context in which it grew.... Read more
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