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Worst American Birthdays, vol. 45
Worst American Birthdays, vol. 45
Few actors on the fringes of American politics have been so consistently insane as David Joel Horowitz, who commences his eighth decade of douchebaggery today. Like the itinerant street prophets who descend upon university campuses each spring like an Old Testament plague of toads, Horowitz's ...
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I biffs 'em and buffs 'em, and always out roughs 'em
SteveAudio — I had a bizarre email exchange with David Horowitz a few years ago, detailed here. No real point in re-visiting it now. So I feel a certain kinship with DH, not unlike the warm fuzzies Popeye must feel every time he sees or hears Bluto. D-Ho seems to be having a birthday today, and davenoon at Lawyers, Guns & Money pays him appropriate homage: In his new role as agitator against leftist indoctrination on American campuses, Horowitz has become a one-man Macy's parade, a giant, cartoonish, inflatable fuck-up bobbing goofily ...

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