As many of you know, my dear friend and fearless comrade in so many battles, Kathy Shaidle, died just before dawn on Saturday. Among the many hats she wore, Kathy was our dazzling movie columnist every week, and over the weekend I rounded up a few favorite moments from her film essays.
But Kathy had plenty more to say on many other subjects, so here are a few excerpts from recent appearances on camera on The Mark Steyn Show. I was particularly struck by an insight prompted partly by being on the receiving end for years of an extraordinary number of repulsive misogynist emails and tweets from pajama boys of the “Kathy Shaidle really needs a good f***” variety: As Kathy saw it, many of the footsoldiers of the activist left are profoundly damaged people. It is perhaps a chicken-and-egg conundrum: Are they attracted to leftism because they are damaged? And does being on the left then damage them further?
