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The Decline and Fall of MTV

In response to I’m Single Because of MTV: At the expense of appearing a codger, I was excitedly camped out in front of the Philco TelePictoPhone for the debut of MTV, and let out a cheer when The Buggles heralded Video’s

420 For the GOP

In response to Virginia’s Cuccinelli Cool With Cannabis?: Jerome, speaking as someone who occasionally experiments with marijuana laws, it’s, um, high time. One doesn’t have to own a tie-dyed ferret and a hackysack to realize the waste of the drug

The San Jose Memory-Hole

When it comes to airbrushing away inconveniences, the San Jose Mercury-News can teach those 1938 Soviets a thing or two. Case in point: their story on suspected serial killer Chris Dorner (complete with handy ‘RACISM’ headline and camo-American flag photo)

Oh, It Is On Like Obi-Wan

In response to At Least I Have Dreams: Thanks to Ace’s incessant backbiting, it appears we have lost our reader. So now it’s time to THROW DOWN. Tease my mullet and mesh jersey and Talledega infield manners all you want, but

Setting Things Right

In response to Iowahawk’s Story is Red-Hot, But… It Ultimately Comes from Infowars: Now that I’ve added an update with caveats to my post (thanks Ace), now it’s time to address his passive-aggressive challenge to the natural Alpha pecking order

Judgment Withheld

In response to Iowahawk’s Story is Red-Hot, But… It Ultimately Comes from Infowars: I bow to Ace’s wisdom, and thus encourage readers to take the story with the appropriate asterisks and grains of salt; I did not follow the provenance

This Round's On You

[update: although the link below is to IBD, Ace points out that the apparent original source is the kook site InfoWars. As such, consider it as unverified. – Iowahawk] Your taxpayer dollars at work: the same President who questions your

Paging Dr. Freud

In response to Cui Bono?: Liz, I’m beginning to suspect a lot of lefties support gun control because they simply are unable to imagine having a gun in their own hands and not going on a murderous shooting rampage. “Save

Concerned Law Enforcement Veteran Speaks His Mind

Via SooperMexican, a progressive former LAPD patrolman makes the case for gun control (naughty word alert): “Who in there right mind needs a f***ing silencer!!! who needs a freaking SBR AR15? No one. No more Virginia Tech, Columbine HS, Wisconsin

If It's Yellow Let It Mellow

In response to A fine rant from Senator Paul: John – I should have noted that the clip of Rand Paul demolishing the DoE twit was from March 2011, but your point remains. This is precisely the line of attack

Flush Twice, It's a Long Way to the Department of Energy

Rand Paul drop a deuce on a toilet-regulating bureaucrat, hilarity ensues (hat tip to Say Uncle and Professor Puppyblender): I like to think some of my Twitter shtick (e.g. “I believe in a woman’s right to choose an incandescent lightbulb”) might

What Can Brown Fart For You Today?

Scared of Texas outlaws rustlin’ all of his cash cows? Not Jerry Brown, beloved governor of America’s financial basket case and one-third of it welfare caseload. Nosirree. Mr. Moonbeam laughed off a new Texas ad aimed at luring California businesses

In Defense of Chris Rock

In response to Our Father, who art in the White House: When I think about it, Barack Obama does remind me of my dad as I was growing up: He comes up with confusing arbitrary rules that I’m not suppose

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

In response to School Disciplinary Actions Over Faux Guns Do More Harm Than Good: After a few months of government-sponsored and media-promoted hysteria over guns, the mass roundup of toddlers and preteens wielding high capacity pointyfingers is hardly surprising.  Lefties

With Apologies to Stephen Sondheim

Isn’t it rich? Aren’t we a pair? You on the ground smoldering Me in mid-air. Send in the drones. Isn’t it bliss? Obama approves. The DOJ now recommends No sudden moves. Where are the drones? Send in the drones.  Just

The Jung and Restless

In response to Psychoanalyzing the Left: Ace – like a lot of cherished lefty ideas,  meritocracy (with wise elders bestowing credentials on the deserving) began with good intentions. Ancient China had civil service service exams as far back as the

Get Hip

Earlier today I tweeted that “conservatism needs more fixie bike Portland hipsters who own boutique cupcake food trucks, and fewer Karl Roves.” I wasn’t being ironic (or meta-ironic). Tweak their pretensions all you want, but nobody has a deeper understanding

Brrrrr

A lot of people have a Super Bowl Sunday ritual. Mine is to bundle up, fill the Thermos, and meet up with Chicagoland’s coldest hot rod show: the annual Bare Bones C.C. Polar Bear Cruise. This year’s edition wended its

Technically Not a Photoshop

In response to No Photoshopping? What a bunch of whiny little spoilsports: I am frankly shocked to see Conversation colleagues like John Hayward and Larry O’Connor encouraging the juvenile and insolent manipulation of official government photos against the expressed wishes

Larry O'Connor, Trouble-Stirrer

In response to White House Warns: Don’t Photoshop Obama Gun Pic: So, in short, you want me to ignore the warnings of people who hunt down and jail makers of crappy YouTube videos. Are you also double-dog daring me to

Cheat Fiercely Harvard

Heartwarming education news from America’s most exclusive institution of higher learning: 125 Harvard students have been implicated for cheating on a class exam, leading to the expulsion of as many as 60. And, to the astonishment of absolutely nobody, the class was… 

Those Crazy, Wacky United States

On the lighter side of the news, a decorated US combat veteran faces 35 years in prison for the crime of Aggravated Not Being David Gregory in the First Degree. By the way, did President Obama get all the necessary

The Game That Dares Not Speak Its Name

Legal question for the editors: I was considering writing something about Sunday’s S**** B***, but according to the ads I’ve seen lately, the broadcast or printing of this term is now forbidden. Apparently it’s a word like “Beetlejuice,” and if

Let Us Heed the Wise Words of Fredo Corleone

Re: Jump the Gun Much? Who’s jumping the gun, Ace? Until we have confirmation regarding all these stories about Senator Menendez, we should be careful not to believe them. As Fredo Corleone said to his own corrupt Senator at the

Let Me Get This Straight

So a United States Senator slated to become Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee strong-arms the U.S. State Department to approve a 20-year, $1 billion federal contract for Dominican port security with a firm owned by a Florida opthamologist

Commies Hack Commie Hacks

Talk about carrying your coals to Newcastle: in what may be the greatest waste of espionage assets in human history, computer spies from the People’s Republic of China have infiltrated the New York Times. What were these inscrutable visitors from

A Tale of Two Cities

  Chicago, IL  Houston, TX  Population   2.7 million  2.15 million Median HH income  $38,600  $37,000  % African-American  32.9%  24%  % Hispanic  28.9%  44%  % Asian  5.5%  6%  % non-Hispanic White  31.7%  26%       A reasonably similar matchup -until:

Your Overnight Chicago Murder League Box Scores

Sub-zero windchill spelled a relatively quiet hump day in America’s gun control capital, with a scant 6 wounded and 0 dead, awaiting this morning’s hospital reports. South Austin led all neighborhoods in scoring with 2 wounded, cementing its lead in

I'm Dave, and I Like Cars

…especially Fords. Among the greatest of all Fords was the ’49 “Shoebox,” the first truly modern postwar car. Dispensing with the bulky pontoon fenders of its predescessors its debut heralded the dawn of the golden age of Detroit auto manufacturing,

A Modest Proposal

Last year I visited a gun shop in Waukegan and applied for an Illinois state firearm owner identification (or, as it’s known around these parts, a FOID card). Not that I’m planning a duck hunt or school massacre; I don’t

Garden State News Roundup

New Jersey state filmmaker laureate Kevin Smith models the latest in New Jersey Escalade-squeegie-ing fashion. In other New Jersey news, FBI raids Florida office of NJ Senator Bob Menendez’s optometrist/BFF/underage Dominican hooker supplier/tax-cheating campaign sugar daddy. On a more positive note

Garden State News Roundup

Shot for Teacher

Heartwarming education news from the brokest state in the world’s brokest nation: in what promises to be the biggest high school production since the Glee season finale, today Cary-Grove HS in suburban Chicago will conduct a mass murder drill, featuring

The Experimental Results Are In

Progressive, forward-thinking, economically responsible California raises taxes. Ignorant slack-jawed anti-science Bible-beater hillbilly Texas legislature lowers taxes.

John Cusack's Bizarre Twitter Musings Really a Cry For… Script Pitches

Jim Treacher reports that former child actor (and pride of the Evanston Township HS English Department) John Cusack has discovered the joys of Twitter, with somewhat predictable results. Crueler folks have already analyzed Mr. Cusack’s 140-character musings and theorized the

I'll Take a Cashier's Check, Mr. Breitbart

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