Monday Night Mashup: The Trooper Believer
Iron Maiden meets The Monkees in one of the better mashups I’ve seen.
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Last night in my international law seminar we discussed obligations towards foreign nationals and the 1994 Singapore caning of widdle Michael Fay for vandalizing cars was discussed. 13mm thick rattan...
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In my Humanities course yesterday we started talking about the Enlightenment… laying the foundation with Locke and Montesquieu which of course lead to a brief presentation on the importance of the...
View ArticleImmoral Relativism
“Child Bride: Through the Looking Glass” by Sharooq Amin Influential (and cultural relativist) early 20th century anthropologist Ruth Benedict once wrote: “Mankind has always preferred to say, ‘It is...
View ArticleBurn, Hollywood, Burn
In the wake of Ms. Knowles’ halftime, er, extras yesterday, figured I’d share an interesting incident on the LA “subway” (quotation marks in deference to my Long Island wife, who mockingly chuckles...
View ArticleAin’t got a thing if ya ain’t got that swing
The Finns apparently still have a thing or two to learn about anti-rape videos. Here’s the latest Taki’s Mag piece from David Cole Stein to tell you more [TRIGGER-WARNING: For those with an aversion...
View ArticleDue Process, what a concept
As if I didn’t loathe the media’s disgusting predilection for steering rush-to-judgement false narratives already, but ESPN’s latest 30 for 30, “Fantastic Lies,” about the Duke lacrosse team,...
View ArticleBy Their Hairdos Ye Shall Know Them
A series of YouTube videos titled “100 Years of Beauty” shows the evolution of a country’s fashions over the last century in about a minute each. It’s a fascinating window into each nation’s history,...
View ArticleNo. Blow Your Horn!
The gods must be crazy in Indonesia. From the BBC: Indonesian police have confiscated a sex toy from a remote village after its inhabitants and some on social media mistook it for an “angel”. The doll...
View ArticleHail To The Chief!
Clarence Louie (pictured above), Chief of the Osoyoos Indian Reservation in British Columbia, has some refreshingly blunt advice for his people. His advice to young men on his home reserve? “Get a...
View ArticleGender Neutered Pronouns
UCLA Law professor Eugene Volokh at the Washington Post’s Volokh Conspiracy blog has an enfuriating/interesting piece on New York City’s plan to fine people for not using the proper pronoun to refer...
View ArticleHere Rests in Anonymity a New Yorker Known But to God
A trench at the potter’s field on Hart Island, New York, circa 1890 by Jacob Riis. Earlier this week the New York Times had a fascinating piece on Hart Island’s “potter’s field” — burial ground for...
View ArticleInnovation Stagnation
Lars and JimmyC wrote today about technological progress. Specifically the progress witnessed by their grandfathers. I too used to marvel at all my oldest, surviving grandmother had witnessed in her...
View ArticleThe 22 Most Conservative Foreign Movies of All Time (Part 1)
Some of you may remember that a couple years ago I posted a list of conservative foreign movies, which was later consumed in the Great Threedonian Apocalypse. In the meantime, I’ve added some more...
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On this date in 1888 the poem “Casey at the Bat” by Ernest Lawrence Thayer was published in the San Francisco Examiner. The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Mudville Nine that day; the score stood...
View ArticlePreach It, Mike!
Mike Rowe tells the special snowflakes graduating from college what someone should’ve told them (and other millennials/Gen Xers) years ago. Also, if you’re not familiarized with Prager U, I would...
View ArticleIt’s Usually Sausage
Ready for smuggling! Mmmm… Is that maple bacon? NOOOOOO: Customs officers at the Hamad International Airport, in the Qatari capital, have arrested a Yemeni man attempting to smuggle more than 12...
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Scene 23 from the Bayeux Tapestry: Harold swearing oath on holy relics to William, Duke of Normandy On this date in 1825 the British Parliament officially ended feudalism.
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