MIGHT BE? “Europe Might be Dying.”
Archive for 2016
March 27, 2016
YOU NEVER WANT TO LIVE IN A COUNTRY THAT HIPSTERS LOVE: Cuba is One Step Closer to Being Less ‘Authentic’ — Cubans seem to be really happy about it.
Related: Please Stop Saying You Want to Go to Cuba Before It’s Ruined.
TO BE FAIR, THEY’RE THE WORST AT VIOLATING MOST LAWS: Walter Olson: Governments Are the Worst Polluters — And, of course, face little or no punishment. Well, I guess we’ve got the “why” part figured out, too.
THE SITCOM FROM HELL? How Friends Triggered the Downfall of Western Civilization. It starts out strong, but ends trivially.
AT AMAZON, Bestsellers in American History.
ROLL CALL: Christ Is Risen, But Campaign Discourse About Faith Has Fallen.
Related: A scene from a very different America.
I think the odds are higher that we’ll see a tribute to Rev. Nehemiah Scudder, who’s due to arrive around now, and bring an end to the Crazy Years.
HMM: This Man Can Save Us From Trump—and Clinton.
Related: Gen. Mattis On Being Part Of Potential Third Party Ticket: ‘I’m Quite Sure It’s Just Idle Talk.’
Well, we may wind up with him one way or another.
#NEWYORKVALUES, Then and Now:
I’M NOT SURE THERE’S ANY SUCH THING: Family Vanning In Style Without Losing Your Mind.
DISPATCHES FROM THE RELIGION OF PEACE: “At least 65 people were killed and more than 300 injured in the suicide attack at [Pakistan’s] Gulshan-i-Iqbal Park, where a large number of families were gathered on the [Easter] holiday evening. The attack was claimed by Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan Jamaatul Ahrar, a splinter group from the original Pakistani Taliban. On Saturday, the Afghan Taliban issued a statement complaining that only Islamic holidays can be celebrated in Islamic countries, specifically grousing about Nowruz (Persian New Year) celebrations in Kabul the past week.”
21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: The Mystery of the Minimal Cell, Craig Venter’s New Synthetic Life Form.
AT AMAZON, deals on Handmade Festival Jewelry.
THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY MATTE PAINTINGS.
The massively-illustrated Matte Shot blog looks at the special effects behind the earlier, funnier, pre-full-on White Supremacist Disney
(Incidentally, shades of the 1992 column the New York Times ran by a pair of college students seeing full-on anti-Semitism at heart of the Michael Keaton and Tim Burton’s Batman Returns.)
TO ASK THE QUESTION IS TO ANSWER IT: WHY NO GOOGLE DOODLE ON EASTER?
Flashback: What Easter? Google Ignores Holiday, Instead Commemorates Cesar Chavez.
PUT THE BATBONG DOWN, DUDE: Neil deGrasse Tyson tries to crap on Batman, beclowns himself instead.
GONE TO TEXAS: As promised on Friday, I have a lengthy post at Ed Driscoll.com on what prompted my move, and all of the synchronicity in the week leading up to it.
AT AMAZON, deals on Cellphones and Service Plans.
21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: Why Microsoft Accidentally Unleashed a Neo-Nazi Sexbot.
BATTLE SITE EXCAVATION REVEALS THAT ancient Northern Europe was less of a backwater than is generally thought.
MICHAEL WALSH: Why Are Millennial Men Such Wimps?
THE MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE: “You are right,” Nietzsche replied, “our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts.”
HAPPY EASTER FROM BHO! Obama Doubles Down on Syrian Refugee Policy During Easter Address.
Because there’s nothing he can’t — and won’t – politicize.
IN THE MAIL: From David Cole, Engines of Liberty: The Power of Citizen Activists to Make Constitutional Law.
Plus, today only at Amazon: 47% off on “Mad Max Anthology” on Blu-Ray.
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