Lower Klamath Lake, California

“Experts” Part I: Water on the Brain

As I write this, L.A.’s in the middle of a weeklong superstorm of biblical proportions. We’re being pounded harder than Lauren Boebert on a first date. Twelve inches in one night, which breaks L.A.’s record (though not Boebert’s). Remember the merciless September 2022 SoCal heat wave, when every red-state rightist gyuck-gyucker tweeted “L.A. can’t keep the lights on; they’s a’ havin’ blackouts”—even though we didn’t have a single blackout? And remember what I wrote in my Sept. 13, 2022 column? “If you lived in SoCal you’d know that our blackouts are more often ...

Flooded With Good Intentions

Sen. John Kennedy is upset because Sen. Rand Paul wants to limit federal flood insurance. But Paul is right. In my new video, Paul says, "(It) shouldn't be for rich ...

Rosa Parks

Mirror-Image Racism

Nothing could better illustrate or be emblematic of the earnest suicidal frivolity of the West than the decision of the first female chief executive of the British insurance and ...

Get the Message?

Perhaps I am more sensitive to them than I once was, but it seems to me that hectoring and badgering semi-political public messages (mostly paid for at public expense, of course) ...

When Will Politicians Learn Banning Cigarettes Will Never Work?

One of the most enduring lessons of American history is that the banning of liquor sales and consumption ("the noble experiment") was a colossal failure. Drinking didn't go down ...

Dinner Bell for the Right’s Last Supper

In February 2007, 24-year-old paranoid schizophrenic Holocaust denier Eric Hunt had an idea: He’d kidnap Holocaust survivor/author Elie Wiesel and make him admit that the ...

Donald Trump is Nick Fuentes

Who's the happiest guy in America this week? Nick Fuentes. In a matter of days, he's gone from total obscurity to the most famous person in the country. Everybody's talking about ...

You’ve Been Warned

Yesterday I received a letter from England that bore the postmark “Dog Awareness Week.” It came with a printed paw-mark. Of course, for me every week is Dog Awareness Week. I ...

Sense on the Dollar

Error, says the psychologist James Reason in his book devoted to this theme, is a large subject. You can say that again! And so is stupidity, at least to judge by the more than ...

Learned Stupidity

As I write this, Germany is closing down its nuclear power stations, and I am reminded of a phrase in Shostakovich’s memoirs, including of life under Stalin: “A great cultural ...

Parenthood Has Driven Our Policy Elite Mad

There's a disturbing trend among post-Trump populists to think that just because they've rejected the old GOP ideas about tax cuts and permanent war, they should also reject ...

Contact Highs, Abstract Lows

If racism is the only thing that could possibly account for the problems of blacks in 2021, shouldn’t their troubles be declining steadily? After all, the effects of redlining ...

Elle Reeve

What’s Dumber Than CRT? CNN

As we discussed last week, "critical race theory" is a subtle philosophical construct where the answer to everything is: THAT'S RACIST! Teachers hawking this glop are being ...

Chuck D. from Public Enemy, 1991

The Age of Black Rage

General Mark Milley seems like a guy who’s been able to live a functional life while afflicted with minimal brain damage. Not enough damage to appear retarded; he can do a job, ...


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