All I can say is that the selfish git had better hang in there, or else I’m going to be very miffed with him. Or, to take another line, I’m a bit worried, but I’ve known people who’ve gone through worse and lived and thrived for a very long time afterwards. I can’t hit the right note here.
Mark Steyn
The Long Term’s Express Check-In
My great compatriot Kate McMillan says that the “one bright spot” in yesterday’s Canadian election was that Trudeau cabinet minister Maryam Monsef lost her seat. The current “Minister for Women and Gender Equality”, Ms Monsef was discussing the fall of Kabul a week or two back and referred to “our brothers the Taliban”.
Tucker Carlson, Mark Steyn roast the new ‘pregnant man’ emoji
Tucker Carlson and frequent guest Mark Steyn lit into the new proposed additions to the emoji keyboard, namely, the “pregnant man” emoji. Yes, that’s an emoji of a person with short hair and a mustache clutching their stomach much the way a pregnant person would, or a person who had eaten too many nachos.
Steyn Live on Fox News Primetime All Week!
Happy Post-Independence Day – if that’s the word I’m looking for. I’ll be spending the week on American telly screens for a rollicking hour of Fox News Primetime at 7pm Eastern, starting today and running through till Friday. Please do dial us up if you are in the presence of the receiving apparatus.
There are only 2 shows I would watch on Fox – this and Tucker Carlson.
Shaidle on Speech and the Unhappy Left
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?