Category: Culture

Does Ted Williams Deserve A Second Chance?

Posted on by John Hawkins

Ted Williams made the news this week-end — and no, not THAT Ted Williams. This Ted Williams is the homeless guy with the golden voice. If you haven’t seen this yet, you’re probably one of the few that haven’t, Admittedly, that’s pretty cool right? It is. That’s why this video has gone as viral as […]

 

Mark Twain’s Great Works Rewritten to Conform to Political Correctness

Posted on by Dave Blount

Inevitably, the squishy soft form of totalitarianism known as political correctness has reached the point that great works of literature are being rewritten to conform to current ideological orthodoxy: Mark Twain wrote that “the difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter.” A new edition of “Adventures of […]

 

Kathy Griffin Declares Jihad Against 16-Year-Old Willow Palin

Posted on by Dave Blount

Despite the foul language she has used on air in the past, CNN once again burnished its hard core moonbat credentials by showcasing leftist “comedienne” Kathy Griffin on its New Year’s Eve broadcast. This time she refrained from dropping the F-bomb, but she did drop her comparably obnoxious New Year’s resolution on The Hollywood Reporter: […]

 

Planned Parenthood: Corrupting the Kids It Doesn’t Kill

Posted on by Dave Blount

The abortion mill Planned Parenthood is raking in taxpayer money to the tune of $363.2 million per year, but at least it’s performing useful services. In addition to killing inconvenient babies in numbers that would put Adolf Eichmann to shame, it’s launching a new initiative to counsel parents on how to encourage their children to […]

 

Stagehands Extort Hundreds of Thousands From Theater Goers

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

If there never was a story that explains how unions are really little else but a criminal extortion racket, the story by James Ahearn in the New Jersey Began Record helps explain it for us. Ahearn’s piece headlined “For Backstage Labor, Rich Rewards,” informs us that some stagehands in New York theater make upwards to […]

 

Why Won’t MSNBCs Ed Schultz Interview Republicans? Cuz he is ‘Sick of ‘Em,’ of Course

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

t’s funny how lefties always consider themselves the more “logical,” the more civilized,” and more “adult” side of the argument. Why, they just want to have an adult debate to explain how correct their ideas are, right? Well, they might unless they work for MSNBC, apparently. Especially if they’re Ed Schultz. Ed Schultz, you see, […]

 

Readers Choice of My Top Fifteen Posts (on The Lid) For 2010

Posted on by Jeff Dunetz

Since it the end of the year many of my favorite bloggers are making their choice of their favorite posts of the year. For example John Hawkins posted The 15 Most Popular Political Posts On Linkiest For 2010 and The 20 Most Popular Non-Political Links On Linkiest For 2010 this morning. As I will be […]

 

Batman’s Politically Correct European Vacation

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Reality isn’t always very fun, granted. Because of that many people turn to comic books for a little escapism. But there’s escapism and PC indoctrination. Sadly, it appears that DC Comic’s Batman is angling for the latter and not the former. You see, Batman has decided to hire a Muslim to “save France.” First the […]

 

Holiday Reminder: Kwanzaa Was Created by a Rapist and Torturer

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Every year I post a pre-Christmas piece on the farce that is Kwanzaa. This year will be no exception. Note, some of the newspaper articles I quote are several years old so some may no longer be online. Each year, with the onset of Christmas, we are treated to another gauzy, fluff piece about how […]

 

SHOCKING: Soros Funded University Poll Says Fox News Viewers Most ‘Misinformed’ Politically

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A poll conducted by WorldPublicOpinion.org, a “project” run out of the University of Maryland, was the toast of the left-wingers last week for its finding that Fox News viewers were the most “misinformed” during the 2010 election cycle. Sadly, few of the news pieces on this poll mentioned that WorldPublicOpinion.org is funded in part by […]

 

Our Idiotic Courts: Car Gets Stolen, Then Owner’s Held Liable For Theft, Also Trees Get ‘Rights’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

All too often it is an upside down world in our American court systems. Here we have two more stories that really argues for the word “impeachment” to get far more of a workout in our nation than it currently does. In one case, a woman whose car was stolen is held liable for the […]

 

Punishing Moonbat Heresy II: Archbishop Andre-Joseph Leonard

Posted on by Dave Blount

After Galileo Galilei was forced by the authoritarian establishment of his time to renounce his observation that the Earth revolves around the Sun, he’s said to have said, “And yet it moves.” The modern equivalent would be, “And yet homosexuality spreads AIDS.” The new archbishop of Brussels, Andre-Joseph Leonard, is being targeted by homosexualist groups, […]

 

(Video) Proof That British Students are Morons

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Last week thousands of coddled British students rioted because the British government decided that its children would have to… gasp… earn their own way through college. No longer would these petulant brats be given a free ride through higher education says the government. And these punks are not very happy about it. Well, one dimwitted […]

 

The Problem With “Intellectuals”

Posted on by John Hawkins

Intellectualism has become the readiness, willingness and ability to call dangerous things safe, and safe things dangerous. — Morgan Freeberg What’s wrong with “the new elite?” Forget cultural insularity or smugness. The main problem with the “new elite” is that they’re not an elite at all. That is, they aren’t particularly smart, or competent. — […]

 

Having Solved All Other Problems, LA Bans Some Fast Food Places

Posted on by William Teach

Apparently, there’s no more crime in LA, no illegals, and no budget issues New stand-alone fast food restaurants have been banned from setting up shop in South Los Angeles, due to rising health concerns by the city council. How many fast food eateries does one area really need? The Los Angeles City Council thinks South […]

 

You Can Take Your Civility Pledge And Shove it

Posted on by John Hawkins

Come to think of it, that headline’s not very civil, is it? My very, very sincere and civil apologies! Wonder if that would be good enough for Lanny Davis & Mark DeMoss? It’s only 32 words. Yet, only two sitting members of Congress or governors have signed the civility pledge. So what was it about […]

 

British Report: Not Letting Sex Criminals Adopt Children Is Discriminatory

Posted on by Dave Blount

Britain provides yet another example of why the last people you would want advising lawmakers are pointy-headed liberal establishment “experts”: The government could face legal action if it continues to ban sex offenders from working with children, according to research published today. A report by a family law expert argues that some sex offenders should […]

 

TAKE THAT MENORAH AWAY FROM THE CHRISTMAS TREE ! (It’s that Stupid, Politically Correct Holiday Season Again)

Posted on by Jeff Dunetz

Tomorrow night is the first night of Hanukkah, Chanukah and/or Hannuka ,the Jewish holiday that is spelled a hundred ways in English. Along with the joy of the holiday is the sadness that this minor holiday is continually hijacked by the ACLU and other liberal groups who have no idea what the holiday means. It […]

 

Hollywood Lunatics and Other Stories

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It’s a holiday and some might say we should be charitable to the unfortunate. By unfortunate usually they mean those that don’t have as much as you and I. But one might construe “unfortunate” to mean being gut wrenchingly stupid, too. And when one thinks of the gut wrenchingly stupid one often thinks of the […]

 

Obama’s Labor Dept. To Create Gov’t Sponsored ‘Labor News’ Agency?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

What is it called when a government creates a state-sponsored “news” agency, again? Ah yes, it’s called government propaganda. And that is what the Obama administration seems interested in creating if the words of Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis’s senior advisor Carl Fillichio can be believed. On Nov. 19 Fillichio attended the annual meeting of […]

 

Anticommunist Movies Break Through Hollywood’s Iron Curtain

Posted on by Dave Blount

Bleak as things look lately for lovers of liberty, it may turn out that the catastrophic 2008 election was the high water mark for authoritarian collectivism. Even Hollywood could be starting to realize that we’ve swallowed something very harmful and need to have our stomachs pumped. After generations of dominance by the Left, the movie […]

 

Obama’s Socialist-Admiring Medicaid/Medicare Chief Gets Hearing

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Donald Berwick, Obama’s nominee to head up the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, made himself infamous earlier this year when video came to light showing him telling a British audience how much he admired their socialist healthcare system because it “redistributes” the Brit’s wealth. Berwick went all warm and fuzzy over the socialist features […]

 

Amazon Pulls Pedophile Book, HuffPo Libs Lament

Posted on by Dave Blount

Amazon has finally pulled down from Kindle The Pedophile’s Guide to Love & Pleasure: A Child-Lover’s Code of Conduct by a pervert named Phillip R. Greaves, 2nd. The author’s product description, via Geekologie: This is my attempt to make pedophile situations safer for those juveniles that find themselves involved in them, by establishing certian [sic] […]

 

Guardian Moonbat Plots to Escape the Tyranny of Marriage

Posted on by Dave Blount

Liberal establishmentarian Lara Pawson of The Guardian has found herself trapped in the heteronormative bourgeois tyranny of marriage. Fortunately for the cause of moonbat liberation, she knows a way to escape: I want to divorce the man I love and he wants to divorce me. We do not wish to separate — simply to end […]

 

Republican TV Shows Vs. Democrat TV Shows Vs. John Hawkins’ TV Shows

Posted on by John Hawkins

Over at Townhall, they posted the results of a fascinating study that showed Republicans and Democrats have very different tastes when it comes to TV shows: Know what really stood out the most for me? The fact that I don’t regularly watch ANYTHING on either list. So, what do I regularly watch? Here’s the list, […]

 

Transsexual Changes Back, Denounces Sex Change Operations

Posted on by Dave Blount

Finally, a shaft of reason falls on the grotesque if politically correct sex change phenomenon: A man who underwent sex change surgery to look like a woman — then changed back — says the NHS [British National Health Service] should halt all sex change operations. Charles Kane, who spent £100,000 on operations to make him […]

 

Nanny State Republican Upton Wants House Energy Committee Chair?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Light bulb banning Republican Fred Upton (R, Mich) is angling to become the new GOP chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee as the House begins to look to adjusting to reflect the Republican’s tidal wave election. Upton is a perfect example of the sort of representative that the new GOP congress needs to […]

 

Manners Matter: Don’t Excuse Your Child’s Bad Behavior In Public

Posted on by John Hawkins

Courtesy of Red Eye comes this seemingly minor story about flatulence, 11-year-old Christian Summers thinks playing video games is fun. According to his school bus driver, he also thinks passing gas is fun. She didn’t find his flatulence so funny. …For letting it rip on the ride home, Christian was slapped with an hour of […]