Daily Archives: January 2, 2014

The West vs. the Rest: Pt. 3,199,352

When this sort of thing happens in the West, it’s almost invariably committed by blacks: Six Indian men face murder charges after a 16-year-old Indian girl they are accused of gang raping twice in October died Tuesday, a week after … Continue reading

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Ronnie Wood on Jimi Hendrix

Ronnie Wood on Jimi Hendrix:

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NSA Building Computer to Crack All Encryption

Scary shit…. that keeps on gettin’ scarier.

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The Lucky Sperm Club: Jews and M&A

On PBS’s site, John Weir Close writes on “The Lucky Sperm Club: Jews, M&A and the Unlocking of Corporate America“. PBS’s Paul Solman first provides this intro: “Since 1975, the US economy has been transformed in ways that are not … Continue reading

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CA Supreme Ct: Illegal Immigrants Can Get Law License

One step closer to their being absolutely no difference between a U.S. citizen and an illegal alien living in the U.S.: Citing a new state law allowing illegal immigrants to get their law licenses, the California Supreme Court on Thursday … Continue reading

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Europeans United, in Hating Europe

In the NYT is an op-ed by Andrea Mammone entitled “Europeans United, in Hating Europe“. She’s a lecturer in modern European history at the University of London, uses the term ‘Other’, and makes the obligatory ‘Nazi’ analogy, so take a … Continue reading

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Philip Roth

Ian Thomson, reviewing the book Roth Unbound: A Writer and his Books by Claudia Roth Pierpoint, notes the thread through Roth’s oeuvre is “the theme of America and the vagaries of American Jewish life.” Of particular interest have been the … Continue reading

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