Resuscitating Oscars one bad decision at a time
I haven’t watched Oscars in probably twenty years, and looking at the declining TV ratings neither have many other people. The Academy has now come up with proposals to make its …
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New Mexico school shooters school
This should be a big news but probably won’t because something: The father of a missing 3-year-old who was arrested at a New Mexico compound linked to “extremist Muslims” last …
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Right-wing censors versus left-wing book burners
Won’t somebody please think of the Constitutional children? By which I mean the Amendments, and especially the 1st one. Free speech is under attack, both in theory and in practice. …
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Lest we forget the press
The closing para from an op-ed by a Notre Dame ethics professor Joseph Holt, published by CNN (“Editor’s Note: The views expressed here are solely the author’s.” Yeah, in a technical …
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We’ve got some pretty unpopular leaders
The current crop of Western leaders is failing to inspire the electorates much beyond their base. Is it just a coincidence, or do we live during particularly polarised and unsettled …
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Museum folds like a cheap t-shirt
Or a $19.97 long sleeve. Yesterday, a journalism website Poynter brought to everyone’s attention that a gift shop at Newseum (“the interactive news museum in Washington, D.C.”) is selling Donald Trump …
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Fear and loathing in Las Vegas
Ten months of investigation leaves a mystery in America’s deadliest mass shooting: Las Vegas police have concluded their investigation into the Oct. 1 shooting with no clear idea of why …
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When ICE came for Anne Frank
The denigration of the memory of the Holocaust continues, courtesy of people who either don’t know history and are therefore stupid or purposefully misinterpret it and are therefore malicious: A …
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The Unbearable Lightness of Identity Politics
I blogged yesterday about “The New York Times” hiring a Korean-American anti-white bigot to their editorial board. Andrew Sullivan now provides the ideological context much better and more succinctly than …
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Brain don’t lie: progressives less tolerant
A fascinating new study from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln: In a new study, University of Nebraska-Lincoln researchers found that self-identified liberals were more likely to notice when candidates deviated from the …
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Not-breaking news: NYT hires another leftist racist
The Newspaper of Record has been in a tiny spot of bother lately, on the account of its decision to bring onto its editorial board an exciting new voice of …
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Jerry Brown’s pants on fire
As California battles numerous fires across the state, Gov Jerry Brown has some scorching criticism: “We’re fighting nature with the amount of material we’re putting in the environment, and that …
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Your party is full of conspiracy nuts, shout people who lionise socialists
Apparently a new menace is stalking the Trump base – though since the media-political complex considers all of them buck-toothed racist white trash, how much worse can it be? Celebrity …
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Hollywood: where men want you and women hate you
An interesting interview with the ageless Jennifer Aniston in the latest “In Style” magazine, which touches on the interpersonal culture of the movie industry and the battle of the sexes …
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