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Author Archives: Max West
JYT: 6/22/15
It’s a busy day of talking points promotion at the JYT. Earlier today: Then, in it’s current incarnation: An op-ed about ‘white supremacy’ movements from none other than Morris Dees and Richard Cohen, among the angriest ethnocentric Jews in the … Continue reading
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The Pope & The Planet
Various scientific skeptics that global warming is predominately the product of human activity have been dis-invited from a Vatican conference on the matter. From the Washington Post: The incident highlights how climate-change doubters tried and failed to alter the landmark … Continue reading
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Mark Zuckerberg Donates $5 million to Help Illegal Aliens Attend College
Mark Zuckerberg really, really wants more H1-B visa types to help push down the wages of Silicon Valley tech workers. A $36 billion fortune can’t last forever, you know. And he’s always valiantly trying to do something about making it … Continue reading
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Ain’t Jemima
“Former NAACP leader Rachel Dolezal cried while reading about Caitlyn Jenner, says it ‘resonated’ with her” is a headline that perfectly represents the increasingly hyperactive and histrionic identity-politics machine that is Culture right now. The madness continues, more emboldened and … Continue reading
Posted in Culture Wars, Left, Race
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Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist Forced to Resign
Here is but the latest victim of the vicissitudes of an increasingly institutionalized Political Correctness: LONDON (AP) — A week ago, Tim Hunt was a well-known Nobel Prize winner who was promoting science education throughout Europe and the world. Today … Continue reading
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Suffragette City 2.0
It doesn’t take much imagination to forecast how the Hillary campaign will deploy a series of predictable tactics (e.g., stitched together appeals to the Obama Coalition block, which is essentially identity-politics for everyone except heterosexual white men; the ‘first woman … Continue reading
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Charade (1963)
Filmed in Paris, Charade (1963) is a light, semi-comedic, spy thriller directed by Stanley Donen, and which stars Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn in the leads, with a strong supporting cast including Walter Matthau, James Coburn, and George Kennedy, the … Continue reading
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Delmore Schwartz
In The Nation, Vivian Gornick has a piece on the New York Jewish intellectual poet Delmore Schwartz (who happened to also be a mentor to Lou Reed.) She starts the piece with a reminiscence by Alfred Kazin: In New York … Continue reading
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Chas ‘n’ Dave – That’s What I Like (1983)
I first heard a track from these guys while visiting the Cavern Club in Liverpool, England. I can’t recall the tune, but the uniqueness of their boogie-woogie ‘rockney’ sound playing on the sound system (combined with the thoroughness of my … Continue reading