Here, available online for the first time, is a brief excerpt from a 1999 interview with the late great Lou Thesz on Tony Cecchine and his place in catch wrestling. Mr Thesz, who died over half a decade ago now, remained close with Tony until his death. And though the two never engaged in any business dealings, Thesz endorsed Cecchine — and testified to his expertise in hooking (a rarity

Go up to a traffic cop and smack him across the face with a rolled up copy of one of the suburban Yellow Pages. Then, when he claps the bracelets on you, keep breaking off fingers and sliding your increasingly diminished hands out of the cuffs. Repeat until he gets so frustrated that he lets you go with a warning and $20 for Chinese takeout.

That is, if you can believe such contrived, loaded polling. Alternate explanation? Older whites, rather than being “racist,” aren’t particularly taken in by a guy who promises everything and says nothing. Too, they’re old enough to remember the Weathermen, Alinsky, Community Organizing, BLT, etc. — and they, being the bourgeois Democrats of the sixties and seventies, aren’t particularly drawn to the “new leftists” who have since taken over the Democratic

From the WSJ: “You can’t be a rational person six days of the week and put on a suit and make rational decisions and go to work and, on one day of the week, go to a building and think you’re drinking the blood of a 2,000-year-old space god,” comedian and atheist Bill Maher said earlier this year on “Late Night With Conan O’Brien.” On the “Saturday Night Live” season

A couple years back I talked about a kind of bloodless civil war happening in the US, the idea being that a logistical reshuffling could bring back into the national discussion federalist principles and arguments. It was an offhanded comment made in the course of a longer post, but it was nevertheless carefully extracted and excerpted by, among others, Hilzoy and Mona, to argue that I had called for a