I’m a middle-class child of immigrants. I’m told we were poor when my parents emigrated from Scotland to Canada in the 70s, but I don’t remember any of that. All I remember is a bucolic childhood where I was never in want for anything I needed. Everything I wanted, however, was another matter entirely. You see, like most middle-class children of immigrants, my parents were born and raised working class. That means they were never quite comfortable in the new world they created for themselves. It also meant problems. I didn’t have the kind of problems they had. I ...
Let us pray that the next pope is a black man. Better still, let it be a black African born and bred in the heart of the Dark Continent near the source of one of those massive snake-like rivers. The ...
I never used to believe in miracles before I came to live in Italy, but last week I witnessed the resurrection of a political corpse. It was all thanks to a bizarre potion whose ingredients are a ...
Willingly or not, women play a starring role in the death of the West. Women in Europe and America have made one great big fat suicidal error as a result of modern feminism ...
Over a decade ago a young, clumsy college graduate named Roosh started DC Bachelor, a blog devoted to his attempts at meeting and dating women in Mordor-on-the-Potomac. His ...
I admire the great French actor Gérard Depardieu. Not only does he annoy the French left, he has now left France. In so doing, he has given me a great idea: to transform myself ...
If it were not for the Apocalypse which is due any day now I would be the owner at last of a large stone farmhouse perched in the gentle foothills of the Apennines and surrounded ...
Ah, Italia! Such a great place to get your head around great art and great women, but such a shitty little country. How else to describe a so-called free and democratic country ...
About a year ago an Italian judge ordered me, as a condemned criminal, to perform 166 hours of unpaid "lavoro socialmente utile" (socially useful work). I kept putting it ...
The Remembrance Day commemorations in honor of the war dead always prompt even me to think that the Italians" reputation as a nation of cowards on the battlefield is ...
Day after day, Italian newspapers pullulate with deeply disturbing examples of the antics of Italy's judges. But this past week has been a vintage one even by Italian standards. ...
Francesco Schettino, the 52-year-old captain of the cruise liner Costa Concordia, began his pretrial hearing last week in the small Tuscan city of Grosseto. The Costa Concordia ...
They played "The Internationale" at Wednesday's funeral of Eric Hobsbawm, Britain's "greatest historian." No one took offense. Indeed, all felt uplifted. The ...
In Italy"which is the next eurozone domino to fall after Spain, Greece, and Portugal"things are bad and getting worse. The mood here is one of black pessimism and utter ...
One of the reasons the West is in such deep trouble is that it has allowed "rights" to kill off what's "right," as in "that which is right." Rights are ...
In continental Europe, S&M seems to be a northern Teutonic phenomenon rather than a southern Latin one. The Germans, for example, are dead keen on it. Given that Italy ...
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