What does a Japanese lesbian jumping into a volcano have to do with American mass shooters? I thought you’d never ask! Mount Mihara is an active volcano that sits on the island of Oshima, off the coast of Tokyo. For centuries, Mihara has been an exotic destination for suicidal Japs who believe that by jumping into the volcano their body will be vaporized by the intense heat, thus speeding the soul toward its heathen Nip afterlife. Mihara suicides have always been a thing, but an infrequent thing. Then came February 11, 1933. Kiyoko Matsumoto, a 21-year-old student, had fallen in love with ...
The New York Times seemed to think it was bitterly ironic that some of the students at Santa Fe High School, site of the recent mass shooting, had staged a walkout last month in support of the ...
I"m sure it was just a coincidence that the first issue of my firearms association's magazine to arrive after Justin Trudeau's election came wrapped in an opaque gray plastic wrapper instead of ...
I could see it in my website traffic: Someone in the public eye had said something stupid about Jews and guns. People were trying to fact-check the comment, and they were heading ...
In his recent piece for Takimag ("Gun Control and the Scope of Ethics") Alexander Fiske-Harrison confesses to "complete mystification" concerning the gun-control ...
Weeks after the Sandy Hook shooting, which was blamed on everything from Ke$ha to Mortal Kombat, most news outlets are still in panic mode. One newspaper, though, went “full ...
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