The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

So if you haven't been following, Isabella herself graced us with her presence in the comments to my post on the blog 'She's a...

Quote of the day, from AL, referencing the case of Oscar Pistorius, the South African paralympian accused of shooting his girlfriend : I...

Like the tobacco industry, you need not want to purchase a product to respect a well-constructed business strategy. Consider the example o...

(Previous thoughts on the psychology of strip clubs  here , and male self-deception in relationships  here  and  here .) The standard comp...

"During the killings I no longer considered anything in particular in the Tutsi except that the person had to be done away with. I wan...

-Mark Steyn gives a rousing defense of free speech following the scandalously underreported assassination attempt on Danish free speech adv...

A fairly robust fact about celebrities is that they tend to date and/or marry other celebrities. The most obvious explanation for this is ...

Jwz recently posted  about this blog called ' She's a flight risk ', which ran from 2003 to 2006 and is diary of sorts claiming...

Apropos nothing, the great G. K. Chesterton, on Don John of Austria at the Battle of Lepanto : Lepanto White founts falling in the cour...

If you're ever with a Limo driver, I recommend asking them to tell you about some of the celebrities they've driven around. I was wi...

In the USA, the portion sizes of nearly every food item are significantly larger than in the rest of the world. Except for sugar packets. ...

Shylock, back in May 2011 : "Guantanamo, the Saudi Secret Police, or a Predator Drone. Pick one." Former head of the CIA Mich...

One of things that Mencius Moldbug likes to emphasise is that most Western countries increasingly aren't democracies in a meaningful se...

Step 1. Go to websites like Healthgrades  or RateMDs  and check out the ratings of doctors in your area Step 2. Read through the reviews, ...

Not forced segregation, mind you. Like so many reactionary ideas (some of which were good, some of which, like this one, were not) it's ...

Okay, as soon as I wrote that I realized that there’s probably dozens of sneakier ones I don’t know about, but this one I have at least ob...

Like anybody raised outside the US, the metric system of measurements seems self-evidently better than the ludicrous imperial system. The ...

One of my hobbies is to try to imitate foreign accents. It's often convenient for humor purposes to be able to portray a generic person ...

My corner solution song of the moment is 'Hyperactive', by the Dollyrots. Imagine everything you secretly like about Avril Lavigne,...

The American/British version, not the Russian/French one. Check it out . It starts here , and is up to part 9 so far. Do yourself a favor ...