Canada’s Mean Tweets

Canada is nice in a totalitarian sort of way, like some lost episode of The Twilight Zone where no one locks their doors and everyone is super polite"€”or else. "€œSubmitted for your approval"€: if you live in Canada, don"€™t argue on Twitter, or you might find yourself in court looking at ...

Satire Is Dead. Long Live Satire!

If you missed it, you missed out: one of the best comedy accounts in Twitter history (even better than @Vice_Is_Hip, which I long thought to be Gavin himself) has been eighty-sixed. @Salondotcom lampooned the admittedly low-hanging fruit of Salon. Run by Daily Caller opinion editor Jordan Bloom ...

Racists are Everywhere: Piledriver Edition

In 2014, the business model for journalism (so-called) is as follows: manufacture some perceived outrage and let the delicious page views and ad revenues flow forth. The Atlantic, a once-venerated font of American letters boasting such celebrated writers as Mark Twain and Emily Dickinson, is sadly ...

Activists for a Stupider Tomorrow

Arizona State University, perennial favorite for "€œnation's least prestigious school,"€ is showing America why: students can now earn extra credit in a Women and Gender Studies class for being female and not shaving their armpits. One student"€”whose parents no doubt consider this either ...

Creepin”€™ Commie Killjoys

This week, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office cancelled six patents associated with embattled football team the Washington Redskins. The patent office found in favor of five Native Americans (not five grievance groups, mind you, but five people), stripping the trademarks on the grounds that they ...

Varg Vikernes

Varg the Distresser

Louis Cachet, the artist formerly known as Varg Vikernes and the mastermind behind one-man black (apparently now formerly) metal band Burzum, is back in the legal hot seat. He was originally arrested with his wife on suspicion of plotting acts of terrorism, but the pair was released after police ...

Saving the World From Book Clubs

There was a time"€”or so I"€™m told, anyway; it was long before my day"€”when college kids thumbed their noses at authority, fiercely defended the freedom to openly exchange ideas, and demanded something other than more money for booze and weed. Today, however, university students stand ...

Michelle Obama

Witches and Snitches

Watch out, codgers, curmudgeons and crackpots: Michelle Obama is enlisting your kids to monitor your thoughts. In a recent speech before five Topeka, KS graduating classes, Mrs. Obama encouraged young people to "€œask the hard questions and have the honest conversations"€ any time grandpa ...

The Care Bears vs. McCarthy

Catholic libertarian Jeffrey Tucker recently introduced us to the concept of "€œlibertarian brutalism."€ The distilled version: Libertarianism is well and good, but can"€™t we do something to make sure people only use freedom of association in ways that are palatable to progressives?  Now ...

Trevor Blake

The Un-manual to Unman all Manuals: Trevor Blake

At the nexus of Anton LaVey and Robert Anton Wilson lies Trevor Blake. In Confessions of a Failed Egoist and Other Essays, Blake combines The Doctor's brand of deadpan dark wiseacreing with the laughing Irish-Catholic sage of the counterculture's endless questioning. He consolidates and updates the ...