1984
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Don’t ask “Why do they hate us?” ask “Why do WE disgust them?”
Written sexual consent codes, and scoundrel cascades, oh my! “I try to become more cynical every day, but lately I just can’t keep up.” Read more
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Stop watching me!
Oliver Stone and some celebrity buddies want the NSA to stop watching them. Good idea. I stopped watching Oliver Stone years ago. Tip from Drudge, who is allergic to permalinks. Read more
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Vote for ObamaCare?
Looks like the implementation of the Affordable* Care Act is on its way to being all things to all people. The Obamacare exchange website is complicated to use and has seen more than a few glitches since it officially opened on October 1st, but the MacIver Institute has found that once you get through the Read more
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Some people can’t take a joke
The NSA doesn’t want you to have this t-shirt: So buy one here. A$$holes. Read more
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Gasahol is Genocide
American and European biofuel mandates and subsidies are starving the Guatemalan working class. GUATEMALA CITY — In the tiny tortillerias of this city, people complain ceaselessly about the high price of corn. Just three years ago, one quetzal — about 15 cents — bought eight tortillas; today it buys only four. And eggs have tripled Read more
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The Man Who Defected to North Korea
Anyone who believes in something for nothing is already half on the road to being swindled. Fortunately, millions who have defected to the People’s Democratic Republic of California are finding it easier to escape. Update (22 July). And then there’s this poor mook who’s looking for an Islamic paradise. Tip from Via Meadia. Read more
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Gotta be a coincidence, 31 March, 1 April…
Wow, I almost missed it! Tonight is the Greenies’ April Fool’s Eve celebration, EARTH HOUR, wherein folks indulge in a pointless demonstration of energy conservation by sitting in the cold and dark at 8:30 pm* for A WHOLE HOUR, like some kind of stoner mook who took too many downers. I’d be more inclined to Read more
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Wow! Down the (404) Memory Hole
DOTPOTUS Malia Obama and twelve of her friends are vacationing in Mexico (on our dime, no doubt), and it seems that stories about the trip are disappearing down the Memory Hole at an alarming rate. So far the Masters of the Universe haven’t been able to disappear Mexican reports. After all the travel advisories from the State Department and Read more
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Greenies care about the fish, but not the fishermen
Debt slavery is alive and well in the (Korean) commercial fishing industry. And some of our hippest destinations, from P.F. Chang’s to Whole Foods, are aiding and abetting. Tip from Via Mead. Read more
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He’s making us crazy!
First it was Time Tebow, now it’s Jeremy Lin. They’re driving the glitterati crazy, ’cause they won’t Play the Game: As an expression of the collective consciousness of the cultural elite, the media’s memes are nothing less than a kind of insanity; a window into an dreamscape in which everything is inverted; where ordinary people Read more
The Random Texan 