Mocking treasured liberal slogans is as easy as shooting (bicycle-riding) fish in a barrel. They helpfully print them on T-shirts and bumper stickers, for one thing"although over the years, in this as in all material matters, quality has taken a hit. At least the notion of Pentagon bake sales ...
When 20-year-old Playboy centerfold Dorothy Stratten was raped, murdered, and mutilated by her estranged husband in 1980, she was adopted as a symbol of man's inhumanity to woman by germinal third wave feminists (who would have cut her dead when she was alive). Conveniently mute, impossible to ...
Exposed as I am, even at this distance, to the still-radioactive residue of America's "original sin," I thank God every day for making Canada too cold to grow cotton. Looks like I"ll have to add "watermelon" to that prayer of thanksgiving. L"outrage de la semaine occurred ...
Well before I wrote these weekly screeds, I was"God help us"a poet. One of some tiny renown, in fact. Luckily for everyone, poetry, like smoking and drinking, is among those youthful pastimes in which I no longer indulge. (Had there been national awards for those last two, I flatter myself ...
On February 27, 2013, Canadian historian and (more or less) conservative political operative Tom Flanagan gave a lecture in Lethbridge, Alberta. Driving home without a cell phone, listening to an audiobook instead of the radio, he found out when he reached Calgary two and a half hours later that in ...
Which one is Rose McGowan again? It's a complaint as old as Sunset Boulevard: "We had faces then," and all that. Presumably the same gene that makes new music sound like noise sometime around your 35th birthday also renders you incapable of distinguishing one recently minted ...
Oh, great: another Canadian Muslim on a rampage. Don"t worry, I don"t mean that some self-styled Islamic terrorist is killing our men in uniform again. That was last month. I"m talking about Jian Ghomeshi. For those fortunate few who swerved to avoid this pileup"helpfully ...
"It's been a tough week for Canadian Muslims." I sincerely wish I were pulling your leg, but that's really how the National Post began the somberly italicized deck it stuck on top of what was clearly a hastily arranged interview with career apologist for Islam Karen Armstrong. Because ...
Only barroom bores bemoan the real-life dearth of science fiction's long promised "flying cars." (As I"ve said before, we already have flying cars. They"re called "helicopters.") I don"t drive a normal car, so I have no need of one that's airborne. You can keep your ...
So it looks like I"m not really white after all. Possibly not even female. I"m basing this on the findings of OkCupid, the dating site that's also a data site. A few times a year, they pour some of their millions of user profiles through an analytical sieve and serve up the clickbait-y ...
