Clark Stooksbury lets the ludicrous Stanley Kurtz have it. Kurtz is a prime example of how certain conservatives now display all the traits of the victim mentality conservatives once despised. They find oppression in every piece of pop-culture detritus that doesn't affirm their own worldview.
Kurtz is frequently in hysterics over a television show called [...]
It's not surprising that, as the BBC reports, women are driving the market for on-line music. A quick look at the iPod product line would let you deduce the same thing: the tendency is toward smaller, more expensive, and sometimes more colorful devices. To the masculine mind, paying more money for a thinner [...]
"Islamists using US video games in youth appeal":
Tech-savvy militants from al Qaeda and other groups have modified video war games so that U.S. troops play the role of bad guys in running gunfights against heavily armed Islamic radical heroes, Defense Department official and contractors told Congress.
And Islamists aren't the only ones "Converting video games into [...]
MIM Notes, the Maoist newspaper, has a web page dedicated to video-game reviews. Would Chairman Mao approve of Doom 3?
Who knew that Humphrey Bogart threw Love’s great-grandmother into a lake, or that three generations of the Fox / Carroll / Love line have written books? Probably not very good books — I’m not about to read any — but I had no idea Love had such a tangled and interesting family backstory.
The story [...]
I wasn’t eager to see “V for Vendetta,” but someone who calls his blog the Tory Anarchist can hardly fail to go see the movie that has the Wall Street Journal talking about anarchism. A similar sense of duty — I wanted to popularize Richard Weaver’s idea of the Great Stereopticon by tying it [...]
The song of the day is “I’m Bored” by Iggy Pop. Not a comment on my present state of mind; the Claude Allen story had put me in mind of Iggy’s “I’m a Conservative,” but “I’m Bored” is a better cut.