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In reply to Suleman Khawaja. I hadn’t even thought of the POW-MIA flag as virtue signaling, but that’s exactly what it is, and it’s far (far) more ubiquitous than any left-wing sort of virtue-signaling (and to my mind, more offensive)…

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In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Yes. I think the point here is, there is a time and place for insistently shouting utter nonsense in other people’s faces, and that time and place is 1985, at a Japanese hair metal band concert. Not 2020, amid an overab…

In reply to cmsciabarra. Looking forward to reading it… LikeLike

In reply to Suleman Khawaja. I do find the insistent ostentatiousness of these Trump supporters one of their most irritating qualities. How many people need constant reminders of what country they live in? Does anyone think that there’s a dearth …

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. By the way, I don’t think a metal riff is accurately represented with “doot doots,” but that’s a minor point. LikeLike

In reply to Suleman Khawaja. I had, indeed, forgotten “Loudness.” But I returned to them, with gratitude for your suggestion. They look like Motley Crue, but sound like the Scorpions. I don’t think I’ve ever heard a drum track q…

Thank you for this, Irfan; an index to all the entries in my annual series is here: https://notablog.net/archives/236 And the newest entry in the series, an interview with “Firefighter Gerard Gorman: Ultimate Survivor” is here: https://chri…

I was recently dining at an outdoor restaurant and a pair of bikers (the Harley kind, not the Schwinn kind) cruised by, horns blaring, with the same banner trailing behind one of the motorcycles. It’s our natural habit to see an ostensible act of…