Stooges behaving badly
Is there anything more politically incorrect than the Three Stooges? Doug Mortimer takes a look at the pre-PC era of film.
Is there anything more politically incorrect than the Three Stooges? Doug Mortimer takes a look at the pre-PC era of film.
What is the origin of “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle”?
Doug Mortimer finds that those with a penchant for complaint are not easily satisfied.
The current brouhaha about bathrooms and genders reminds me of an experience I had with same many decades ago. Oh, it has nothing to do with trans people or gender dysphoria, but it is relevant to the discussion. When I was in college I had a summer job at a hotel in a major city. …
Yogi Berra, baseball’s master of malapropisms, once uttered the immortal words, “It’s like déjà vu all over again.” If Yogi were still among the living, he would probably say the same about the big ballyhoo over women in baseball. Last year I posted an article on Kelsie Whitmore (see “Kelsie Whitmore Proves Less Is More” …
According to the feminist sacred texts, the most despised decade of the 20th Century was the fecund 50’s. The birth rate was high, stay-at-home moms were the norm, and domesticity was exalted. Thanks to lingering postwar affluence, shoe sales skyrocketed, as women were pregnant but not barefoot. In latter decades the birth rate plummeted and …
Imagine my shock and horror when I came across an article entitled “Women are drinking more than men to cope with coronavirus due to ‘psychological distress’ and the presence of children in the home during the pandemic” on a web site (www.stationgossip.com). As if there weren’t enough systemic injustice in this world, now we have …
The recent referendum (albeit, non-binding) about admitting trans women to Wellesley College ended predictably. To put it bluntly, the voters overwhelmingly approved admitting chicks with dicks. Paula Johnson, the President of the college, demurred, upholding the school’s official status as a woman’s college. Since she identifies as a black woman (you might doubt it if …
Long before CGI, humans being menaced by giant creatures they had previously dwarfed had great cinematic allure. In particular, the 1950’s were rife with science fiction films involving tiny creatures grown gigantic. To wit: YEAR CREATURE(S) TITLE 1954 Ant Them! 1956 Tarantula Tarantula 1957 Scorpion The Black Scorpion 1957 Grasshopper Beginning of …
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