The Derbyshire agitation has so excited the wolves The National Review has deemed it necessary to throw a second passenger from the troika. The pack won’t be sated as long as they’re on the scent of blood, of course, so the remaining riders must be eyeing one another warily. Who’s weak? Who’s suspect? Is itContinue reading “Now Repeat After Me”
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SWPL Central
No longer did Wall Street mean Protestant Good Family. There were plenty of prominent Jewish investment bankers…plenty of Irishmen, Greeks, Slavs. That none of the eighty members of the bond department was black or female didn’t bother him…the bond trading room at Pierce & Pierce was no place for symbolic gestures. –The Bonfire of theContinue reading “SWPL Central”
Comments Elsewhere, Edited and Expanded
Regarding John Derbyshire’s instantly (in)famous The Talk: Nonblack Version piece in Taki’s (contrasting the faddish meme “The Talk”* and its hoary assumptions about racial hostility, with the reality of the known world), Mr. Josh Barro in Forbes steps into the town sqaure to deliver the King’s writ as he sees it (“National Review Must FireContinue reading “Comments Elsewhere, Edited and Expanded”
Religion affronts one’s reason. Nature affronts one’s soul. Both affront one’s ego.
Here Today
Righteous Constipation
Truth dons the Hoodie. You are sir, to paraphrase Epictetus (and parody you), a big ego carrying about a small man.
Heavenly Racket
Earl Scruggs Foggy Mountain Breakdown Doc Watson, Earl Scruggs John Hardy
Sympathy for the Devil
So Mr. Santorum has invoked Satan. The pro-Romney Drudge Report is is assaulting this newly identified breach with standard all-cap hysterics and ominous cliff-hanger dramatics (“DEVELOPING…”). We’re all atingle. Send the children to their rooms. Related, Obama is going pre-emptively negative on Romney in Michigan (Santorum’s got to look like Christmas to the White House,Continue reading “Sympathy for the Devil”
Get me something that goes really fast and gets really shitty gas mileage, I work for Dick Jones!
Contra kitschmeister Clint Eastwood, the dystopian Detroit of Paul Verhoeven’s Robocop, a failed city where street gangs rule the night and private contractors compete with the police, is coming to pass: “We got to have a little Old West up here in Detroit. That’s what it’s gonna take,” Detroit resident Julia Brown told The Daily.Continue reading “Get me something that goes really fast and gets really shitty gas mileage, I work for Dick Jones!”
"There was a theme park called Beat-Down…"
Well, thank goodness MLK’s tearful little dears can now go to Fun Town. But do they have to bring their parents?Oh racism. Why. Oh why.
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