Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Sorry for the downer title, but the news is anything but good, wherever one looks. At the home front we’ve had flat tires, broken bones, and dead phones. (The broken bone belongs to my exchange student, who is disappointed, but not too terribly damaged, thank goodness.) The past few day’s
Continue readingAndrew Klavan tries to sort out the Left’s gender constructs. It’s not easy, but I will say that he can carry a tune:
Continue readingMost people, when they think of Genesis, remember that God created everything, told Adam and Eve to leave the tree of knowledge and, when they didn’t, kicked them out of Eden. What few remember is Genesis’s insistent focus on the importance of naming things. In the first chapter, God no sooner creates
Continue readingI saw my first Gay Pride parade in the late 1980s or early 1990s. I found it revolting, insofar as it reaffirmed my long-held belief that the people most likely to get naked are the ones other people least want to see. Other than that, I found the whole thing
Continue readingIn 1979, the nation was outraged when Dan White, who successfully carried out a premeditated plan to murder San Francisco’s mayor, George Moscone, and first openly gay supervisor, Harvey Milk, was acquitted because his attorneys convinced the jury that White’s excessive consumption of Hostess Twinkies had rendered him effectively (and
Continue readingLast year was a triumphant year for gay marriage in California. That means that this year, for many newly wed gay couples, April 15 was the first time they filed their taxes as married couples. I have it on very good authority that many of these newly nuptialed couples are extremely unhappy now
Continue readingI’m not a Bill Maher fan, but he occasionally shows an intellectual honesty that makes it worthwhile to keep an eye on him. Last week, he exposed Leftist hypocrisy about racism, when he got Leftist guests to denounce “racist” pronouncements from Paul Ryan, only to reveal that he was quoting
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Continue readingBen Shapiro has published a post that perfectly articulates everything I want to say about the Mozilla thought-crime purge. I therefore hope that Ben will forgive me for quoting him at some length. After detailing the way in which Brendan Eich’s outing and subsequent destruction began with OKCupid, and then
Continue readingWikipedia has a working definition of the 1950s blacklist that Leftists to this day use as a banner around which to rally: The Hollywood blacklist—as the broader entertainment industry blacklist is generally known—was the mid-20th-century practice of denying employment to screenwriters, actors, directors, musicians, and other U.S. entertainment professionals because
Continue readingFor an almost 80 year run that ended only in 1972, Playland at the Beach was San Francisco’s Coney Island. Beginning in 1928, and subject to a few minor changes over the decades, Playland settled into the form known to City residents through its final days: it had roller coasters,
Continue readingThere have been a lot of stories lately about hate-crime hoaxes that gay rights advocates have perpetrated. Just to list a few examples, there was the waitress who falsely claimed that a receipt included a scathing gay insult along with a refusal to tip; there was the radio station that
Continue readingAs the picture to my left shows, there is nothing new in the American military about men in what used to be an all-male, or predominantly-male, society still trying to resurrect a simulacrum of their civilian life. Two musicals that emerged during and immediately after World War II make heavy
Continue readingLast week, I posited that gay parenting has a problematic biological component that the Left assiduously ignores — or, more accurately, it has a lack of a biological component that the Left assiduously ignores. In any gay parenting relationship, at least one of the parents is a step parent, something
Continue readingThe “Cinderella effect” posits that, for atavistic reasons, stepchildren tend to fare less well than biological children. That’s not always the case, of course. There are utterly vile biologic parents and wonderful, loving stepparents (as was the case with Abraham Lincoln’s stepmother). The data for the Cinderella effect comes from
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