There have been, and always will be, a handful of people who believe with all their heart and soul that the world is coming to an end. Eventually, someone will nail it, but in the meantime, there will be a lot of people who are determined to re-enact Chicken Little with the utmost gusto and sincerity. And they may not be entirely wrong in their cause or assessment, even if actions are guided by an existentialism that they can see but others can’t. And that makes them crazy.

As a rule, I tend to think sabotage is most effective when it is precise and gritty. When activists from the same group smashed gas stations in April this year, they hit the nail on the head. Gasoline, unlike a van Gogh painting, is a fuel of global warming. There is a whole planetary layer of stations, pipelines, platforms, derricks, terminals, mines and shafts that must be shut down to save humanity and other life-forms. When governments refuse to undertake this work, it is up to the rest of us to initiate it. That is the rationale for sabotage: to aim straight for the bags of coal.

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Sheriff Roy woke the morning of October 16 with a cold sweat across his brow.

Trying to piece together the previous evening left a pit of sickness in his stomach. He could see it all again now. The scooped up fumble into the touchdown that had Vols fans apoplectic. Then the missed field goal by Reichert. Then that son of a bitch Chase McGrath, clad in orange and white, barely making a game winning field goal to make the Third Saturday in October a win for the University of Tennessee Volunteers for the first time in 16 years. Continue reading →

As the star of House of Cards, Kevin Spacey’s career was on fire until Anthony Rapp, another actor whose career was not, hopped on the #MeToo train to accuse Spacey of “the most traumatic event” of his life when he was 14.

The New York natives were both in Toronto working, and Manheim had invited Rapp and his boyfriend over to partake in the beloved theater geek ritual. But for the first time, Rapp — a working actor since he was 9 years old, and most famously part of the original cast of the musical Rent — felt something he’d never experienced before with the Tonys: dread. Continue reading →

There are black holes on the internet where few of us normies tread, And no doubt if we  unwittingly stumbled into 4chan, our reaction would be shock, as the unpleasantness of certain unfiltered humanity would make us question how our species survived. And to be fair to New York Attorney General Letitia James, it can well be a festering, puss-filled sore that any decent person would want cured.

But as much as we may hope and pray such black holes didn’t exist, and that our fellow humans wouldn’t be this way, can it be stopped? Tish James calls for criminalizing the broadcasting and distribution of mass murderers on social media, and civil liability for the platforms that fail to prevent it from happening. Continue reading →

What’s most remarkable about Wayne Hsiung’s description of what he did is that he doesn’t wrap it up in a slurry of empty rhetoric. He basically concedes that he, along with a group of people who shared his views of animal rights, planned and then committed crimes.

We sneaked into the farm one night in March 2017. Inside, we found and documented sick and underweight piglets. One of them could not walk properly or reach food because of an infected wound to her foot, according to a veterinarian who testified on our behalf…Given their conditions, both piglets were likely to be killed and potentially tossed into a landfill outside of Circle Four Farms, in which millions of pounds of dead pigs and other waste are discarded every year. Continue reading →

You accept a job, and your new employer informs you that you will be required to go through training before you begin work. Perhaps that training is to obtain a particular licence, like a commercial driver’s license or a certification that you’ve completed 10,000 hours of eyebrow threading training, or perhaps the training is more a matter of learning how your employer wants you to perform a function, for which you were already licensed or qualified, but their way.

To get the job, you agree to the training, but at some point down the road, you decide that you no longer want the job. Maybe you don’t want to work for the employer, now that you’ve come to know more about the company or people. Maybe you got a better offer along the way and decide that the job wasn’t as great as you thought. Whatever the reason, you decide to quit. That’s your right, of course. Or is it? Continue reading →

There is a curious belief among progressives that they are not merely smarter, righter and better than others, but the majority, because how could any decent person be anything  other than a progressive? This arrogance led a couple of law profs to propose a monumentally disruptive concept: Ignore the Supreme Court.

For American progressives, the Supreme Court has become a maddening institution. The comforting notion of the court as umpire lies in tatters. It is Justice Samuel Alito’s court now: methodologically flexible but ideologically rigid.

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Over the past couple of days, some kids threw tomato soup on a Van Gogh (yes, it was covered in glass, but that doesn’t make this better) and glued their hands to a wall, while other kids poured milk over the floor at Marks and Spencer. The former was to “protest” climate change, while the latter had something to do with animals. There are videos floating around of both, but to the extent promoting themselves as the heroes of the woke is the purpose, I decline to post them here. Continue reading →

To tell you that cops lie is like telling you the sun rises in the east. A generation ago, people wouldn’t have believed, but today it’s so well known that it wouldn’t raise an eyebrow. Then again, it’s so well known that many now believe that a cop couldn’t tell you the time of day without lying, just as ridiculously wrong as pretending cops don’t lie.

And to explain, yet again, that there are false accusations of sexual assault and rape seems too obvious for words. The reason for “believe women” started to blunt the assumption that when a woman accused a man, she was not to be taken seriously. Over time, it’s become that she can’t be doubted. So here we are, pretending women don’t lie. Continue reading →

Pennsylvania Lt. Governor and Democratic senatorial candidate John Fetterman, who is running against New Jersey’s favorite TV snake oil salesman, Mehmet Oz, gave an interview to NBC News that created a shitstorm.

This week, John Fetterman, the Democratic nominee for the Senate from Pennsylvania, appeared in what NBC News billed as his first on-camera, one-on-one interview since he had a stroke in May. The interview went well and was conducted with Mr. Fetterman and the reporter, Dasha Burns, sitting in the same room, as Mr. Fetterman used a captioning system on a computer screen to assist him with his auditory processing, something he has needed help with since the stroke. Continue reading →