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  • The Left’s War on Comedy Is No Laughing Matter

    By Selwyn Duke If pure-hearted laughter is divine, the suppression of it is demonic. This could come to mind with our Left’s war on comedy, which really is happening. It also really is a campaign common to leftists. Just ask USSR-born comedian Yakov Smirnoff, a man popular during the late Cold War period (the 1980s).…

  • WOW: Disney Nixes “Transgender” Storyline; LGBTQ Lobby Is Livid

                                                                                      Anthony Quintano/Wikimedia Commons By Selwyn Duke Did Hell just freeze over? Some may thus wonder with news that Disney,…

  • What Does Having Grossly Obese and Male Pageant Winners Say About America?

    By Selwyn Duke If “American exceptionalism” now means leading the world in providing comic relief, then we’ve just increased our lead. This is perhaps indisputable with news of a grossly obese Alabama pageant winner and a man — yes, a man — being crowned Miss Maryland.

  • Hollywood Blast: Bursting Our Eardrums in a Background-noise Culture

    By Selwyn Duke “What did he say? Huh? Okay, well, pass the popcorn and put on the sub-titles.” This is not only a common experience people have with today’s entertainment; it also reflects something deeper about our culture. It’s not often that reading a Washington Post article makes me exclaim “Thank you. Thank you!” But…

  • Robin Williams: Death of a Funny Sad Man

    By Selwyn Duke “There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt,” said columnist Erma Bombeck. On Monday, comedian and Golden Globe, Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar winner Robin Williams, finding himself lost on the wrong side of that line, hanged himself after a long bout with depression. It…

  • The War on Men’s Wages

    By Selwyn Duke A market economy is absolutely the worst system in the world — except for all the rest. This isn’t just a play on Winston Churchill’s quip about democracy, it’s also true. Pity that we have to rely on those vice-ridden, flighty creatures called human beings to make decisions about what products and…

  • Influential Beats: The Cultural Impact of Music

    By Selwyn Duke The Devil really is a fellow of wine and song, Playing a tune that trades right for wrong. The tone-deaf man will hear his notes and say, What could be wrong with being festive and gay? And when a sad tomorrow that tune does bring, Few will know that from their own…

  • The Genocide of Dead White Males

    By Selwyn Duke With the way dead white males get vilified nowadays, it almost makes me afraid to die. And with the way true education is being killed off, you may be afraid to send your kids to school. A generation ago we heard the chant, “Hey, hey, ho, ho, Western culture’s gotta go!” And…

  • Trashing Our Culture With Trash

    By Selwyn Duke A long-growing garbage field much larger than Texas is creeping toward the United States’ west coast, and parts of it will increasingly make landfall for quite a long time. And one can’t help but think that it has come to the right place. A new book by writer Charlotte Hays entitled When…

  • Marvel Rolls out Muslim Girl Superheroine

    By Selwyn Duke It must be really exciting being a kid today. Denied the strength that “lies in our diversity,” youngsters languishing in the unenlightened 1960s had to content themselves with banal white male superheroes such as Superman, Spiderman and Ironman. But not only has affirmative action created a Hispanic Spiderman (perhaps a white Hispanic?);…