SOME REFLECTIONS ABOUT AUSTRALIA I have just been reading the thoroughly sensible things that Ambra, a black blogress, says about black English and standard English. She rightly says that being at ease in standard English is essential if you wish to communicate widely and easily with others. I note however that she seems to...
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SOME REFLECTIONS ABOUT AUSTRALIA I have just been reading the thoroughly sensible things that Ambra, a black blogress, says about black English and standard English. She rightly says that being at ease in standard English is essential if you wish to communicate widely and easily with others. I note however that she seems to...
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Stoopidity in Illinois If the Illinois senatorial race isn’t bad enough: a extreme leftist on a pedestal versus a carpet bagger, things are now getting worse. The carpet bagger, Alan Keyes, has just said “I think it has been proven empirically, that concealed carry laws, allowing law-abiding citizens access to concealed carry actually reduces...
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Revealing celebrities for what they are In our beauty and celebrity obsessed world, HDTV is proving to be a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Sweet, sweet justice. It’s no witch hunt, but the show-all, tell-all detail of high-definition television threatens to reveal faces Botoxed, scarred, lined by age, botched by plastic surgery or desperately caked...
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Kerry’s Old Swift Boat Uniform Revealed.
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Today is Wictory Wednesday. Every Wednesday, I ask my readers to volunteer and/or donate to the Bush 2004 campaign.If you’ve already donated and volunteered for the Bush campaign, then talk to your friends and enlist them in this battle for America’s very soul.
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Farewell to Phish. I never followed the band in any way myself but this is a top-flight journalistic report: Phish concerts, especially massive multi-day camping festivals like Coventry, serve as foci for the staging of Temporary Autonomous Zones, like Burning Man or the Rainbow Gathering, where the rules of mundane life are temporarily suspended.
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Media Bias May be Giving Kerry 15 Points at the Polls. Still don’t believe me? Then how about this informal poll of journalists at the Democratic convention, conducted by the New York Times? It reveals that “they favor John Kerry for president over President Bush by 3 to 1, while reporters based in Washington,...
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The Jenna Jameson Story. A new autobiography is out on this most prickly of subjects! I don’t think I’ll be buying it but undoubtedly Yakov will be taking it home with him in lieu of the actual actress. …she insists that porn can be a great living “because you’ll make a lot of money...
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