Category Archives: meme war

I was a punk before you were!

Complaints that when Sarah Palin does a speaking engagement at a conference, she gives a Sarah Palin speech. I find this sort of “it was so much better when it was just us cool kids, now everyone’s into it” sort … Continue reading

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Quadroon

Apparently we aren’t quite a post-racist society yet. First, African Americans vote en masse for Obama – imagine the furor that would have resulted if only 10% of whites had voted for him? It would have been seen as positive … Continue reading

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Repent, unbeliever!

For a comprehensive list of the horrors visited upon the world by all you horrible capitalist pigs / racist agents of the phallocracy and your vilest of pollutants, maaaan, go here. And … what? Then we all stop exhaling or … Continue reading

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What kind of American ARE you?

Brit Stuart Varney vs. some crazy & incoherent Hollywood douchebag. I don’t usually see folks mix it up like this on TV.

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Colour on the Thames (1935)

BFIfilms: This film is tricky to describe: is it a boat study, a film-poem, an experiment, a picture postcard? One thing is certain: it’s a rare colour snapshot of the Thames and London in the 1930s – and it looks … Continue reading

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Paging all baby boomers!

The dustbin of history is waiting. Don’t keep it waiting too long, eh? Sheesh.

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Barack de Bergerac

Dean Barnett, on the difference between Teleprompter Obama and Note Card Obama: What was especially noteworthy about his Virginia speech were the diversions Obama took from the prepared text. Because of Obama’s improvised moments, this speech was different than the … Continue reading

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“Sustainability”

Brian notes that Bruce Gagnon (a political organizer from Maine who lists “shoveling snow” among his interests and who thinks “growth is killing our very finite planet”) is foolish to urge us to “Shop local, eat local, and walk local” … Continue reading

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GB’s war on cutlery

Samurai swords to be banned: The sale of imitation samurai swords could be banned by the end of the year, the Home Office announced today. Importing or hiring the weapons could also be made illegal following a string of samurai … Continue reading

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President Bush vindicated

Chimps Take On Computerized Brain Test, Beat College Students.

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Dude, like, no offense, but your attitude is like, doubleplusungood

So, TJIC reports on a bit of thoughtcrime committed in the presence of university stooge, and, in my opinion (see comments on TJIC’s post), shines his light on the wrong politically-correct cockroach (actually, to be fair, we don’t get to … Continue reading

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Huevos

Rachel Ehrenfeld: Since March 2002, Saudi billionaire Khalid bin Mahfouz has sued or threatened to sue in England at least 36 writers and publishers – including many Americans – who have documented his financial contributions to al Qaeda and other … Continue reading

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Dar al-Harb

Additionally: Almost half of Britain’s mosques are under the control of a hardline Islamic sect whose leading preacher loathes Western values and has called on Muslims to “shed blood” for Allah, an investigation by The Times has found. I predict … Continue reading

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3 hours of Hitch

…if you can stand it. This also ran last from midnight to three last night, and I caught part of the middle hour – it was enough to make me want to watch the whole thing, especially at an time … Continue reading

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Remember that band? “Axis of Evil”? They were awesome.

Since the wild excesses of crazy front-man Hussein broke up the band in ’03, his two bandmates have been reduced to touring as “Kim Jong Ilvis and his Flock of Seagulls”… Word is VH1 is already planning a “Where are … Continue reading

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Remember, all cultures are equal

I haven’t got around to buying Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s book yet, but this is a nice article. Since the AEI’s site seems to be down, I thought I’d scoop it up from Google’s cache and temporarily reproduce it here: Coming … Continue reading

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Never again! (unless I can get some votes out of it)

What an asshole: SUNAPEE, N.H. – Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said Thursday the United States cannot use its military to solve humanitarian problems and that preventing a potential genocide in Iraq isn’t a good enough reason to keep U.S. … Continue reading

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Harry Potter and the trying-too-hard leftists

Slate on Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: Any fan of the books knows the story already, and I don’t want to ruin it for those that don’t, but briefly: In Harry and his pals’ fifth year at … Continue reading

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Our demoralization is complete

Via Pajamas Media: Former KGB agent and Soviet defector Yuri Bezmenov explains how the KGB worked from within American universities to demoralize our society in a generation. Poking around a bit turns up part 2: These interviews are from 1984. … Continue reading

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Send Lawyers, guns and… fuck it, just send guns and money

Our legislators are idiots who couldn’t lawyer their way out of a paper bag*: Omar Ahmed Khadr, a Canadian national, faced murder charges for killing an American soldier in Afghanistan with a hand grenade when he was 15-years-old. In a … Continue reading

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