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Curse of the Ghetto Golems

Golem tales always follow the same template: A Jew builds a monster of clay to destroy his enemies, but in the end the golem turns on its creator. In 2019, in a piece that generated unintended national controversy, I wrote about immigrant golems. This week, I’ll examine the homegrown ones. George Soros is a golem […]

Chuck the Chalkboard

A lesson from my casting director years: An actor’s instincts are more important than talent when it comes to landing a part. At an audition, you have to be able to read the room. If the room is loose and jokey, joke along. If you sit there like a cadaver, you won’t get a callback. […]

A Pro-Life Poll Up the Ass

You people, I swear. For months I’ve been longing to write my magnum opus about the superb 2021 post-Covid Taiwanese zombie film The Sadness and its impact on Sino-U.S. relations. Sure, that column would be of no interest to you, and sure, it would only be one sentence long (“The superb 2021 post-Covid Taiwanese zombie […]

L.A.’s Black Spoilers

Thirty-five-year-old Nicole Mokeme was Portland, Maine’s BLM superstar. She founded “Rise and Shine,” a woodsy retreat where “BIPOCs” could gather and rant about whitey. As Mokeme stated on her website, “as the awareness of white terrorism began to rise, black youth suggested the need for sacred Black space.” So she founded a black prideaway hideaway […]

They Who Smelt It…

You’d think saving babies would be enough. Dobbs saved the babies. What more does the right need? “We won; pop the bubbly.” But that’s not how the right’s wired at the moment. Sure, saving babies is great and all, but the MAGA right’s too distracted to appreciate the victory. They’ll never admit it, but MAGAs […]

Their Damned Lies, and Yours

Remember the Dhaliwal brothers? No? Good. Like yesterday’s bowel movement, they don’t deserve remembering, let alone an encore. That said, I’m gonna reluctantly invoke them, because even the worst of mankind can offer lessons for the rest of us. Christmas Day 2007, brothers Kulbir (23) and Amritpal (19) Dhaliwal, their friend Carlos Sousa (17) in […]

Calamity of So Long Covid

You didn’t think you could just walk away from Covid hysteria, did you? You didn’t think it would just end, right? In fact, “Phase II” is about to begin. And I’m not talking about more masks ’n’ jabs. I’m talking about a new iteration, a mutation. Not a viral one, but a metamorphosis in terms […]

Dysgenic Supremacy

California State Senator Steven Bradford (Compton, Watts, Inglewood, and the dead rapper district of Long Beach) is the blackiest black in the state’s Democrat machine. Bradford so black, every time he visits Long Beach port, the vessels get sickle cell. As a legislator, he’s single-mindedly focused on California’s dwindling black minority (roughly 5.5% of the […]

“New Shooter New Shooter New Shooter!”

Regarding the Uvalde school shooting, most of us have already cycled through the Seven Stages of Vicarious Grief. That’s the process that follows every mass shooting, when we pick our “why” from the list of seven approved mass shooting causes, and we criticize everybody who picked a different one. Here’s the list; feel free to […]

Happy Friday! Dave Answers YOUR Questions

Dwarfs, Movies, Nazi Baddies, and OF COURSE the Damn Holocaust

Your Questions: Holocaust, Hollywood, Zombies, Coffee, & Racists

Holocaust Can Wait: This Week It’s All Movies!

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The Curse of Aaron

If you ask a casual Shakespeare fan to name the Bard’s most villainous character, odds are the answer will be Richard III. And that’s not a bad response. Richard is indeed a murderous scoundrel. But the thing is, from the very first scene, Richard tells the audience exactly who he is, what he’s planning to […]

The Radicalization of Black America

Following last week’s somewhat nostalgic column, several of my younger readers reached out to me expressing surprise over my positive recollections of attending majority-black L.A. public schools in the late 1970s and early ’80s. A few of them shared their own personal, intensely negative experiences. One reader sent me a recent Slate advice column in […]

The War Against Instinct

This week, I’m goin’ anecdotal. A little less “facts and figures” and a little more “Mark Twain after three whiskeys.” Here’s the story of Little Robert and the Crip. Little Robert (so nicknamed because I had another, taller friend named Robert) was a fat kid who lived up the street from me. He was almost […]

Yellow Imperil?

Operation Slippery Slope has hit a snag: too many casualties from friendly fire. From its official launch in January, Slippery Slope was an ill-conceived aktion with a smoky objective. The plan was fairly simple: Scour local news for all instances in which an Asian person was assaulted by a stranger. Present those incidents with no […]

Spicy White and Urban Blight

L.A.’s criminal underclass has only just realized that the county’s Covid-mandated outdoor dining lends itself well to grab ’n’ go robberies (amazing the revelation didn’t occur earlier, but low IQ leads to terrible R&D). The MO is simple: Case the patrons from the sidewalk—look for purses, watches, wallets on tables. Then just reach over the […]

Which Way White-Enough Western Man?

Remember that wacky wagon train known to history as the Donner Party? Eighty-seven souls stranded during a particularly nasty winter while making the trek from Missouri to California in 1846. Party members starved, froze, and some resorted to cannibalism. Of the 87 who began the journey, only 48 finished it. But if there was a […]

Tea and Racial Sympathy

Hey, white people! Have you had your “racial sympathy index” measured lately? Or ever? No? Nazis! Well, whether you know it or not, the “racial sympathy index” is a thing. Is it a good thing? Take a wild guess. Jennifer Chudy is an assistant professor of political science and the Knafel Assistant Professor of the […]

Feet of Clay Stamping on a Human Face

In last week’s column, after months of being stonewalled I finally confronted one of the authors of a “scientific study” that purported to prove that last summer’s BLM riots actually made the Covid pandemic better. Last year, that study was paraded around like a victorious quarterback atop the shoulders of a cheering media grateful to […]

BLM and Covid: Dissecting a Questionable Study

“Scientists” don’t impress me. I’m the progeny of one of the best of ’em, and I know how the sausage is made. A smart enough “scientist” can finesse any study to reflect a predetermined conclusion. Scientists go where the grant money is. And they go where the government and corporate jobs are. And nowadays, in […]

Follow the Science…Off a Cliff

Meet Paul Goldner. Paul Goldner is a jerk. Paul Goldner is also a teacher, which makes him a dangerous jerk. He’s a high school physics teacher in Newbury, Mass., and a Triton Regional School District Committee member. Paul Goldner wants to keep schools closed. He’s an obedient leftist who thinks in-person learning is genocide, because […]

The Con Is (Back) On!

Back again like a boomerang Same old stand, same old gang Back in business with a bang Let the good times roll! —“Back in Business,” from the movie Dick Tracy Stephen Sondheim’s less-than-classic song is employed in a less-than-classic movie for a music montage portraying the unbridled joy of the crime bosses and petty hoods […]