Saturday, March 15, 2003

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THE VANISHED “UNION JACK” For as long as I can recollect, the British national flag has always been known as the “Union Jack” -- a Jack ...

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CRICKET AND USING NOUNS AS ADJECTIVES Grammatical purists are a dying breed in these days of “Ebonics”, “postmodernism” and the like ...

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ANTI-ZIONIST “LOGIC” In case anybody has missed it, the last item on today’s Best of the Web is a brilliant spoof of the logic used ...

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ELSEWHERE Useful Fools has had an amusing thought: He wanted to boycott the U.N . -- but since he could not think of anything useful t...
Friday, March 14, 2003

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FALSE CHILD-ABUSE ALLEGATIONS For some years now Britain has seen an absolute rash of false accusations of child abuse which have caus...

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ANTI-AMERICANISM Australia’s Miranda Devine has some trenchant observations: It's not just about Iraq. Bush faced the same prot...

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SAME-SEX "MARRIAGE" Jeff Jacoby has a good commentary on current attempts by homosexuals to institute same-sex "marria...

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ELSEWHERE Professor Bunyip has an hilarious but sensible article on the folly of making recreational drugs illegal here . Hello Bl...
Thursday, March 13, 2003

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CENSORING VIOLENCE ON TV Calpundit has a post on the hoary old contention that kids who watch violence on TV grow up to be violent ad...

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BEING "WRONG" ON RACE CAN SEND YOU TO PRISON "It is my understanding that Americans are currently being softened up for...

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NEW BLOG Peter Cuthbertson thought that a blog devoted solely to documenting the many idiocies of political correctness (which gener...

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“LA BELLE FRANCE” There is a HUGE Anti-French diatribe here . It IS very hard to see anything excusable in current French policy. The...

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The latest “Carnival of the Vanities” is now up at The Daily Rant .
Wednesday, March 12, 2003

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DENYING STALIN I am still having a bit of a chuckle about my Leftist correspondent here (post of 6th March) who denies that Stalin wa...

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MODERN TABOOS In the past, many of the the strongest taboos regarded sexual matters. One can read almost the entire body of Victorian ...

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ADAMS LIKES AMERICA! Amazing! Australia’s best-known Left-wing pundit, Phillip Adams has just said that he is not anti-American. And ...

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ELSEWHERE This heading gave me a laugh: BLIX HIDES SMOKING GUN Chris Brand looks at the explanation for black backwardness given ...
Tuesday, March 11, 2003

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AUSTRALIA IN THE THICK OF THE WAR A lot of the world seems not to have got the point that the US/UK moves against Iraq are defensive a...

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THE U.N. "More than half a century of experience shows that the UN is a theater of hypocrisy, a sink of corruption, a street market...

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FRENCH NAZIS The amazing things you read when you take an interest in history: The defenders of the last Nazi perimeter in Berlin, ...