This interviewer kept trying to get him to embrace the orthodox, bien-pensant progressive viewpoint on the music industry, and he kept refusing to. And it’s not like he didn’t have fair warning: Is your sense of the music industry these days fairly apocalyptic, or is it mellowing, or…? You seemed fairly skeptical/ cynical about it a… Read More Dave Thomas of Pere Ubu is Awesome
Richard Cohen is beneath contempt. In all the years I read the Washington Post, I never saw a column of his that was not cheap and tedious. Sure, I’ll fisk E.J. Dionne, because Dionne is a Dem apparatchik in journalist’s clothing, announcing the party line. His columns thus rise to the level of argument. Cohen’s… Read More Richard Cohen Calls the Tea Party Racist, But He Used the Wrong Words or Something…
Ace has the details. Because all the stupid things in…mmmph…hehe Sorry. I was making a point…hee hee… oh, do excuse me. heheheheh… Ha! HA HA HA HA HA! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
I’m hearing a lot of this from the sudden victims of Obamacare. Most young, middle-class Americans I know are happy that millions of previously uninsured people will receive free or heavily subsidized insurance under the Affordable Care Act. We just didn’t realize that, unless we had health insurance at work, we’d be the ones paying… Read More Who the &#^% Did You Think Was Going to Be Paying For It?
National Review’s Ramesh Ponnoru and Rich Lowry have attempted the difficult task of finding middle ground between the fighting camps of the Great Republican Civil War. They call it “Against Despair,” and it has been making the rounds in the conservative blogosphere. Instapundit linked approvingly (albeit with a cross-link in praise of Ted Cruz) Erick… Read More Against Complacency
Not even close to making this up. The Westboro Baptist Church was unavailable for comment. In other news, the Onion announced that it is closing, as “reality is impossible to parody any more.”
Victor Davis Hanson calls out the steps, and our progressive New Class masters dance to them: Sometime in the mid-first century a.d., an otherwise little known consular official, Gaius Petronius, wrote a brilliant satirical novel about the gross and pretentious new Roman-imperial elite. The Satyricon is an often-cruel parody about how the Roman agrarian republic… Read More Welcome to Imperial Rome
Ace takes apart the usual wearisome blather from Slate, about how extolling the virtues of quiet fairly overflows with white-privileged patriarchal heteronormative cooties. Because women can’t possibly enjoy quiet, or something. Or it may be true that quiet is good, but YOU can’t say so, Mr. White Male Hetero Privileged Guy. Which is a pretty… Read More Oh, So You Like Silence? SHUT UP!
Paranoia strikes deep Into your mind it will creep It starts when you’re always afraid Step out of line, the man come and take you away. If the threat is accurately assessed, can it be considered paranoia? Bookworm has a solid rant about how the IRS Scandal is the worst Scandal in US Political history.… Read More Breathed There a Tyrant Who Did Not Claim Democracy?
I don’t know anything about the UK Independence party, but Russel Taylor casts it in very Tea Partyish terms. The Tories have responded by insisting UKIP has no real policies, to which I would say that this hasn’t held them back. Their ragtag combination of Keynesianism and liberal dogma doesn’t represent a coherent response to the mess… Read More Russell Taylor – In praise of UKIP
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