Tag: The New York Times

The jury is still out as to whether Giorgia Meloni, who may become Italy’s new Prime Minister after Sunday’s elections, is the new Mussolini.

1,408 words

Look out — here comes Hitler in a bra.

On Sunday, Italian voters are expected to propel a “far-Right” coalition led by a saucy and fetching 45-year-old woman into power.

Almost exactly one hundred years since Benito Mussolini took charge of Italy’s government, headlines for both UPI and the Guardian warn, in the exact same words, that Giorgia Meloni could “become Italy’s first far-Right leader since Mussolini.” (more…)

2,158 words

There is good news, and there is bad news. The good news is that Walter Duranty II, aka Nicholas Kristof, is not going to be Governor of Oregon — not soon, anyway. (more…)

Nancy Crampton Brophy, a writer who claims that the fact that she once wrote a blog post entitled “How to Murder Your Husband” has nothing to do with the fact that she actually shot her husband to death.

2,336 words

“Malevolent” Ram Kills African Woman, Gets Three Years in Prison

In a shocking case of ram-on-black violence, an unnamed adult male sheep in South Sudan recently attacked a 45-year-old black woman named Adhieu Chaping, killing her almost instantly. At press time it remains unclear what the ram’s motivation was — it could have been for money, or due to unrequited love, or simply a manifestation of the interspecies hatred and violence that have plagued the sprawling, worthless Dark Continent for millennia now. (more…)

1,180 words

Last month, The New York Times published an op-ed by Emma Camp, a student at the University of Virginia (UVA), describing the ideological conformity among her classmates and the social challenges faced by dissenting students. The article was swiftly met with mockery and derision among the blue-check set. (more…)

Walter Duranty

2,600 words

“The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weaker man with the sponge. First, the criminal who slays, then the sophist who defends the slayer.” — Lord Acton

“There is no famine, nor is there likely to be.” — Walter Duranty, The New York Times

Walter Duranty, a British-born journalist, served as the Moscow bureau chief for the New York Times from 1922 through 1936. (more…)

1,961 words

Expert: “A person who has a comprehensive and authoritative knowledge of or skill in a particular area.”

Begging the question: “The fallacy of begging the question occurs when an argument’s premises assume the truth of the conclusion, instead of supporting it.” (more…)

Nicholas Kristof in Bahrain

3,386 words

Guess who is going to be running for Governor of Oregon? Current Governor-sociopath, Kate Brown, is term limited. Who best to replace the state’s pretend Governor? Why not Nicholas Kristof, a pretend journalist who, until recently, wrote for a pretend newspaper? (more…)

Ross Douthat

1,484 words

A fierce battle is being waged over American history, pitting liberals against conservatives over how to present our past to children. Conservatives argue American history should inspire a civic nationalism within children, regardless of color, and our history should present the Founding Fathers as colorblind liberals. (more…)

1,023 words

Ross Douthat
The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success
New York: Simon & Schuster (2020)

Never-Trumper Ross Douthat is a faux-Christian, faux-conservative writer for leftist publications like The Atlantic and The New York Times. His presence at those publications is akin to that of the house Negro, (more…)

1,165 words

Affluent white female liberals (AWFLs) suffered their own personal 9/11 last week. Their queen Elizabeth Warren dropped out of the presidential race. (more…)

1,422 words

Sleeping area of a PodShare co-living space.

Right-wing Twitter fumed earlier this week over the provocatively-titled essay “The Nuclear Family Was A Mistake.”

The Atlantic essay, written by New York Times columnist David Brooks, wasn’t necessarily an attack on traditional families. But that didn’t stop the deluge of anger that Brooks would dare slander the family. (more…)

Naomi Wu

1,082 words

Recently, Naomi Wu’s story was brought to my attention on Twitter by Hank Oslo of the Myth of the 20th Century podcast. Naomi Wu is a tech adept from the People’s Republic of China (PRC), living in Shenzhen. She does a bit of coding, but mainly focuses on building gadgetry, and she has invented things such as LED display hats that project images over your face to help circumvent the face detection software that has become ubiquitous in the urbanized parts of the rather autocratic PRC. (more…)