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. "Submitted for your approval": if you live in Canada, don"t argue on Twitter, or you might find yourself in court looking at ...
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 ...
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 ...
Arizona State University, perennial favorite for "nation'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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 "ask the hard questions and have the honest conversations" any time grandpa ...
Catholic libertarian Jeffrey Tucker recently introduced us to the concept of "libertarian 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 ...
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 ...
