Tightwad corner. If, like me, you never learned to touch-type; and if, also like me, you work your laptop to death; and if, like mine, your machine is a cheapo model; then you have watched with dismay as the letters get worn away from your laptop keys. By the end of 2013 I had utterly lost several ...
And while Eric Holder is certainly an exceptionally nasty piece of work, it wasn't he who cooked up the evil and innumerate Disparate Impact ...
"The first episode of Downton Abbey‘s fourth season was watched by 10.2 million people in the US on Sunday, a record for a series premiere on PBS.” So says the BBC. That’s a lot of viewers, putting the upstairs-downstairs aristocratic soap opera up there in popularity with ...
It was leftist triumphalism at its worst, seasoned with lavish helpings of racial ...
Look, it's no fun being the designated race reporter at Taki's Mag. When I joined the contributor list I ticked “opera critic” as my preferred slot on the masthead. Then I got into one of those dumb spin-the-bottle games with Jim, Gavin, Kathy, and Mandolyna, lost four times in a row, ...
In a recent edition of Radio Derb I mentioned the advantages of moving to Iceland but added: “The downside is, you have to not mind living on a volcano.” One listener"there’s always one"saw my volcano and raised me a supervolcano, attaching this news clip: A new study by ...
Did I say "common sense"? There's no market for that in the Western world ...
You remember Caligula. John Hurt played him with creepy malignity in the old BBC production of I, Claudius. Caligula was the third emperor of Rome on a strict count (which doesn’t include Julius Caesar), the fourth of the Twelve Caesars written up by the historian Suetonius. At age 24 ...
By comparison with the people Barack Obama hung out with in his pre-Presidential years " people like Bill Ayers and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright " Raúl Castro is practically a country-club ...
Little more than a hundred years ago the modern British welfare state was born in David Lloyd George's 1909 finance bill, the “people's budget.” Hearing of the bill's provisions"old-age pensions! unemployment benefits! land taxes! (in those innocent times it was thought prudent to ...
