The Warmographic Novelist who Got #CO-Tooed
There is, I think, a short scholarly monograph (peer-reviewed, naturally) to be written on the connection between global warming and sex. A decade or so back, you'll recall, shortly after the leaked Climategate emails from East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit hit the Internet, there appeared in the European press the news that Danish prostitutes had sportingly offered their services for free to the warm-mongers assembling in Copenhagen for the big climate beano. I resisted comment - in part because all the jokes seemed too obvious: when you're in a Danish bondage dungeon you have to pay extra if you want a second girl to come in and "peer-review" your submission, etc. Alas, when Andrew Revkin, the Senior Climate Alarmist of The New York ... |
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Steyn's Song of the WeekBye Bye Blackbird
Before the fiasco of the Nevada Democrat debate fades from memory, I ought to declare that, staring at Michael Bloomberg's wan face as the Cherokee Dominatrix flayed him over his mountain of Non-Disclosure Agreements, the following song sprang unbidden into my brain. Step forward, Allan Sherman: Just for the record, I believe the record sleeve lists the title as "Bye Bye Blumberg", but it's close enough for our purposes. Allan Sherman was the master musical parodist, best remembered for relocating Ponchielli's "Dance of the Hours" as a plaint from summer camp, "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah". With non-instrumental works, he lived by the Number One rule of parody that it should stick as close to the original as possible: You gotta have Skin ... Mark's Week in ReviewA Se'nnight of Steyn, February 17-23
In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked to Mark Shaidle at the CinemaLa Grande Illusion
Long before Parasite, Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion was the first foreign film nominated for the Best Picture Oscar. Kathy Shaidle explores how the once-lost film stands up over time. Clubland Q&AThe Weakest Link?
If you missed our livestream Clubland Q&A on Friday afternoon, here's the action replay. Simply click above and settle back for an hour-plus of my answers to questions from Mark Steyn Club members around the planet. This latest edition began with the Democrat Primary, and ended with fleeing Swedes and sodden Aussies. In between came considerations of Bill Barr as swamp-drainer, Boris as bridge-builder, Charles and William as kings-in-waiting, and much more... Clubland Q&ALive Around the Planet: Friday February 21st
Mark answers questions from Steyn Club members live around the world Steyn on FoxNDA Playoffs
Michael Bloomberg spends half-a-billion dollars to get beaten up by Elizabeth Warren Steyn on the AirStand-Up Guy
Mark and John Oakley on Justin Trudeau's response to the Great Canadian Railroad Shutdown - and is Bernie getting schlonged all over again? Laura's LinksSecurity Kabuki
TSA protecting the skies one grope at a time, a British court defends the right to tweet, and a deaf man teaches his deaf puppy to sign - all in this week's Laura's Links Steyn on FoxThe Bloomberg Administration Takes Shape
Will Mini-Mike's veep be Hillary - or Michelle? |
A Clubman's NotesThe Man in the Library
Just ahead of tonight's "Tucker" appearance, welcome to the latest in our series of audio adventures, Tales for Our Time, and Part Three of my serialization of The Power-House by John Buchan. We're always happy to hear from Mark Steyn Club members who enjoy our thrilling radio serials, and this pre-war yarn from the twilight of Edwardian London seems to be proving popular. John Wilson, a First Week Founding Member from Colorado, cheers: "Thank you for bringing us more Buchan! Also,I love the choice of Holst, The Planets: Mars as theme music. So many great themes in The Planets. I keep expecting to hear Jupiter appear in one of your tales. One of the greatest pieces by an English composer, IMHO." Indeed, John... A Clubman's NotesBuchan and Bokhara
Welcome to Part Two of The Power-House by John Buchan, our latest audio adventure in Tales for Our Time. I thank you for all your kind words about this thirty-fourth monthly yarn for our Mark Steyn Club members, and its Buchanite theme of a fragile civilization threatened by globalist elites. Josh Passell, a First Weekend Founding Member of the Steyn Club, writes: "You had me at Buchan..." A Clubman's NotesA Rather Exciting Business
Welcome to the thirty-fourth radio serial in our popular series Tales for Our Time, and it's our third yarn by John Buchan, author of The Thirty-Nine Steps and its sequel Greenmantle, and before that editor of The Spectator and afterwards Governor General of Canada... The Mark Steyn Weekend ShowA Ribband of Red, a Rose of Shame
Welcome to the latest entry in our Mark Steyn Club anthology of video poetry - The Low-Down White by Robert W Service, recorded live on the Mark Steyn Cruise.... Politics & Current AffairsMichael E Mann, Loser and Liar ...and Scofflaw and Deadbeat?
After losing big time in court, will the self-proclaimed Nobel Laureate have to take out a mortgage on his hockey stick? The War on Free SpeechMichael E Mann, Loser
Dr Tim Ball prevails against a fake-o litigant who failed to prosecute his case Mann vs SteynFootball and Hockey
The Corner post that launched a lawsuit... Katz & Blaze TV vs SteynSteyn Wins ...Again
Litigious losers Cary Katz and Blaze/CRTV strike out yet again |
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