Giving Away the Gender-Bending Ending

If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my 53 years on this earth, it’s to never interrupt a good mania. Because you can’t. Manias simply have to play themselves out. In 2020, the mania on the right about how Covid came from a Chinese lab was so intense that when I pointed out that there was ...

Ignoring Reality, Courting Irrelevance

As a youth, I was privileged to personally observe Willis Carto in his prime. For those too young to remember, Carto was the QAnon/Alex Jones of the pre-internet era. His newspaper, The Spotlight, was a wide-circulation “conspiracy blog” in hard-copy form. Carto catered to those on the right ...

Doom and Groomer

“Hey, conservatives: I present to you a no-lose issue with broad-based appeal. Schools are teaching that biological sex doesn’t exist, ‘women’ are a social construct, and small children should be told they can swap genders. You can ride this one to victory!” Establishment conservatives: ...

Leftist Can-Do vs. Rightist Voodoo

Don’t Loughner me, bro. Remember Jared Loughner? He’s the nutbag who shot Congresswoman Gabby Giffords and killed (among others) a federal judge and a small child. Loughner was a schizo lost in his own head, his sanity drowned in a sea of byzantine “theories of everything.” He was ...

The Left vs. the Gag Reflex

Comedy was on my mind last week, for three coincidental reasons. Reason No. 1: Jowly failed 1980s stand-up “comedian” Dana Gould called me a Holocaust denier. I was commenting in a Twitter thread about how Gould is the guy who killed The Simpsons (he took over as executive producer in the ...

The Trans-Continental Railroading of America’s Girls

This week’s column might come off as mawkish, but I’ll take that risk, as I want to revisit last week’s theme from a more personal angle. I’m writing this on what would’ve been my mom’s 91st birthday. And next week will be the seventh anniversary of her passing. So she’s very much ...

John Wayne vs. Cat Ladies (Spoiler: Wayne Loses)

I don’t care for kids; that’s why I never had any. That said, in my early 30s I did have one brief episode of dealing with children. I dated a Dominican woman who had an 11-year-old daughter. The absentee father was white. The kid was strikingly intelligent. It surprised me that I could carry ...

Words That Kill

How is “cancel culture” different from a boycott? It’s a question asked by leftists who think the whole “cancel culture” thing is rightist bunk. After all, in the 1980s and ’90s didn’t conservative Christians pioneer the concept of advertiser boycotts? Yes they did, and my first ...

Andrew Breitbart

Reappraising Breitbart

As this week’s column will post on the ten-year anniversary of Andrew Breitbart’s passing, I thought it would be appropriate to examine the man’s legacy. I’ll start with a personal anecdote, because I don’t want to be hanged! That could use some explaining. In August 2015 a rightist ...

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The Cults That Are Killing Us

I’ve devoted a lot of text to George Soros, the one-man army behind the U.S.’s catastrophic rise in violent crime, the obsessed, inflexible ideologue who personally funds the “progressive prosecution” and decarceration movements to the tune of billions annually ($18 billion in 2017 ...