[headsonpikes]

ping

[Renfield]

2 Steyns in one day!! My lucky day!

[Cobra64]

When I was in the steel business, there was a company called Pecker Ironworks." We'd call them once in a while, put the call on speakerphone, and they'd answer, Hello, thanks for calling Pecker brothers." I kid you not.

[goldstategop]

White Rhodesians with bitterness note the British Government sold them and their country out. How are blacks better off in Zimbabwe today? If a black government does the oppressing, its not an issue liberals lose sleep over.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

ping

[Cicero]

Boy, writing a comic article on Reverend Canaan Banana, African liberation movements, and homosexuality, without subjecting yourself to death by the language police, is like doing a sword dance while juggling five oranges.

Steyn pulls it off brilliantly and seemingly effortlessly. What a beautiful piece of work.

[Stultis]

Steyn on Africa Ping.

In fact, Robert Mugabe is much as he’s always been. While Britain and other former colonial powers turned a blind eye to Africa, the likes of Mugabe looted their governments’ treasuries, their countries’ resources, their peoples’ wealth, and western taxpayers’ bountiful “development” funds. To this day, you still hear African leaders demanding to know why America won’t launch a “Marshall plan for Africa”, which conveniently overlooks the fact that since 1960 the west has sunk the cost of the Marshall plan many times over into the Dark Continent with nothing to show for it other than a few extra zeroes on the Swiss bank balances of the dictators-for-life. While the west snoozed complacently, the Afro-Marxist kleptocrats ransacked a continent.

[UnklGene]

Shortly before sentencing, the disgraced leader got wind of a rumour that Mugabe was about to have him killed and so "Banana split": he fled to South Africa in a false beard.

Banana Split. Steyn throws this phrases away effortlessly.

[Snuffington]

Wow, is this guy in good form lately. Everything he writes is a treat.

They even gave him Frum's (formerly Florence King's) spot at the back of National Review this past month. Nothing against Frum (like Steyn, a conservative, Canuck, ex-pat who's writing I enjoy), but here's one guy hoping that's a permanent change.

[Gritty]

While the west snoozed complacently, the Afro-Marxist kleptocrats ransacked a continent.

The west may have been asleep, but the Liberals were ecstatic and enjoying the process. After all, "birds-of-a-feather" and all that.

[irv]

Mr Mugabe has accused Britain of a plot to impose homosexuality throughout the Commonwealth.

The Commonwealth is a bit behind the curve. The plot is currently running out of the Supreme Court of Massachussetts.

[dighton]

Even the 1982 law forbidding jokes about the Presidential name couldn’t help him: who needs gags when you’ve got headlines like “Man Raped By Banana” (The Herald), “Banana Forced Officer To Have Sex” (The Guardian) and “Banana Appeals Against Sodomy Conviction” (the BBC)?

“Hand over Banana, Mandela is told” (The Telegraph).

[paulklenk]

What a bizarre story.

[beckett]

Just an incredibly talented guy. The left has no one who can touch Steyn's virtuosity as a wordsmith. He is quite simply the very best chronicler of the passing scene working today, left or right.