Category Archives: Odds & Ends

The Difference Between Berkeley and NYC is Collapsing

Posted on August 20, 2018 by mupetblast

The New York Times recently published a piece on Wiccans in New York City, “Witchcraft in the #MeToo Era.” Despite the name, the article has nothing to do with #MeToo – there are no tales or even allusions to Wiccan … Continue reading →

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Anti-SJW Sentiment in China

Posted on May 14, 2017 by mupetblast

I say anti-SJW, though it could just as easily apply to plain ol’ regular cosmopolitan globalists, I suppose. Here’s an interesting article at openDemocracy on the use of “white left” in China as a racial-cum-political epithet: If you look at any … Continue reading →

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They Like Murray Bookchin, Not Murray Rothbard

Posted on November 25, 2015 by mupetblast

Here’s an interesting piece on Kurdish Syria, wherein the influence of American far-left thinking on the region’s secular politics is explored. Specifically, its influence on Kurdistan Workers’ Party co-founder Abdullah Ocalan, who is currently languishing in a Turkish prison: One of … Continue reading →

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If I Were a Believing Man…

Posted on April 10, 2015 by mupetblast

…I’d think God was angry with Ohioans. See this amusing story about a lightning strike that pushed gas prices to high heaven: The price of regular gasoline at the station, located in the 2000 block of Shiloh Springs Road, is … Continue reading →

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Claim: unbelief “opens the way to progressive social and political ideas”

Posted on July 7, 2013 by Walter Olson

But now it seems those dreadful secular right types are spoiling everything [Richard Congress, who it appears has also discovered that religious enthusiasm often fuels social movements agreeable to the left]

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Letter from a think tank: Deliver us from deliverables

Posted on April 6, 2012 by Walter Olson

As many readers know, there’s a legal and P.R. battle going on for control of the Cato Institute, the libertarian think tank in Washington where I’m a fellow. The key issues in the dispute, both philosophical and personality-oriented, have been … Continue reading →

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Diversity at the NIH

Posted on September 5, 2011 by Bradlaugh

Heather: Good post on the Columbia "diversity" rackets. On the general issue of racially-proportionate representation in this and that, I’ve done a couple of rounds with the NIH’s Office of Extramural Research at their website. The topic is the recent … Continue reading →

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Benedict & Bruni

Posted on October 16, 2010 by Andrew Stuttaford

Le Canard Enchainé is far from being the most reliable news source, but this story is too entertaining not to repeat (via the First Post): The Pope reportedly told French president Nicolas Sarkozy that his wife, Carla Bruni, was ‘not … Continue reading →

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Won’t Be A Minute

Posted on March 26, 2010 by Andrew Stuttaford

This made me smile. H/t: Massie

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Angelic Upstarts

Posted on March 4, 2010 by Andrew Stuttaford

Here’s an entertaining, if in its implications somewhat depressing, article from the London Spectator on the current popularity of angels. This extract gives a flavor: Angels in My Hair is the autobiography of Lorna Byrne, an Irish woman who claims … Continue reading →

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