Monthly Archives: June 2016

Hope & Change

From a GQ profile of Hope Hicks, The Donald’s 27-year-old, easy-on-the-eyes press secretary: As for what arrives in Hicks’s in-box, a typical day brings upwards of 250 media requests. Usually, she alone decides who gets in and who’s kept out. … Continue reading

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NYT: 6/21/16

No sense of irony:

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Muslim ‘Refugees’ & Idaho Town

Twin Falls, Idaho is feelin’ the love the comes with welcoming the Million Muslim March into your community. From FNC: An alleged sexual assault on a five-year-old special needs girl has put a small Idaho city at the center of … Continue reading

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Wacko Jacko – Pt. 24,192

From the ‘Is anyone really surprised by this?’ dept: Michael Jackson hid a sinister house of horrors inside his infamous Neverland Ranch, stockpiling images of pornography, animal torture, S&M and gore in a bid to seduce innocent young boys. Nearly … Continue reading

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The Crisis of Illiberalism

In Commentary, Sohrab Ahmari has a piece titled “Illiberalism: The Worldwide Crisis”. He refers to the spread of nationalist sentiments across Europe and the U.S. as “Planet Trump”: Planet Trump is what happens when liberalism’s capacity to absorb and dilute … Continue reading

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Bulgaria Bans Burqas

From Breitbart: The Bulgarian Parliament has overwhelmingly given the green light to a proposed ban on the wearing of burqas in the country, with only eight Members of Parliament voting against it. The bill’s approval means that Bulgaria is on … Continue reading

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The Neu Jorker

The Neu Jorker is a spot-on parody of The New Yorker. What a tremendous effort to the enterprise, too!

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RIP: Gregory Rabassa

Gregory Rabassa, whose translations of Latin American novels were ubiquitous in the 60s and onward, and whose gorgeous translation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude is a transcendent literary experience, has died at the age of 94.

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Even in Denton, TX

Nothing to see here. However, let’s bring in as many more ‘refugees’ from Iraq as we can. Celebrate diversity!

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‘Honey Trap’ Boys

From AFP, some background on bacha bazi, a practice which Afghani ‘refugees’ into Western Europe and the U.S. bring with them: The Taliban are using child sex slaves to mount crippling insider attacks on police in southern Afghanistan, exploiting the … Continue reading

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