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I Meant To Write A Post

But I’m catching up on a lot of postponed scruff and ruff.

Post tomorrow.

AND SO IT’S COME TO THIS

For years now I’ve opposed the term TWANLOC (Those Who Are No Longer Our Countrymen.) I understood why it was used, but America is a nation of belief, and beliefs change, see one Saul of Tarsus.

It took a discussion with a group of friends, where one held out that even our elites have imbibed the essentially egalitarian ideals of America, while the other one said no they haven’t for me to see it clearly.

I have some experience with these elites. I have a disturbing number of still fri...

America Far Away

Most of the rest of the world, but particularly Europe, seem to have a bizarre funhouse vision of America.

Part of it I’ll admit is our fault, or at least “our fault” in the sense that every place in the world has idiots and crazy people, but some we’re the only country on Earth who make those people celebrities and stars. And also that no other country’s movie industry specializes in showing the worst possible about their own country, including making up stuff.

However, it leads to...

We Live Profoundly Unnatural Lives

No, I’m not actually complaining. Most of the time natural means someone like me would have died in infancy if not before. And I don’t dislike wearing clothes, not having to kill my own meat and not being limited to eating what I can grow. (Particularly in Colorado, where I couldn’t grow much of anything, partly because I’m not the best gardener, partly because the soil was like cement.)

But it is important, sometimes, when reading/talking/writing about the past to realize that we live p...

It’s A Long Long Way To Fall

Recently I’ve been doing a deep dive into pre-history, the aceramic period and that stuff that lies beyond the invention of writing, or at least our knowing it was invented, which is not precisely the same.

As a digression: One of the things that has me highly amused is that, having bought a scattershot of books on the subject, as I always do at the beginning of a “reading-crave” I find those even from the nineties are grossly outdated as new discoveries and studies invalidate them. And...

Fisking Anton – by Ian Bruene

Fisking Anton – by Ian Bruene

== BREAKING NEWS: Journalist maintains high word-to-knowledge ratio! More at 11… ==

A couple weeks ago an article was posted by a certain Michael Anton which contains one true and interesting point, drenched in enough manure to solve the coming phosphate supply issues before they ever get started. I meant for this to go up much sooner, but was busy and then caught Xi’s Death Rot.

Let’s dive straight in:

Regime propaganda is so ubiquitous that even if, li...

I’ve Been Trying To Do A Post

I’ve been trying to do a post since 7 am when I woke up with a massive headache, on which NOTHING has worked.
I’m officially giving up and tabling the post till Monday.
I should be working and am being held hostage by a headache. I’m very, very annoyed.

Anyway, try not to break anything. I’ll be back.

This Is The Alarm Bell

I have to explain first that I have no idea where my sudden insights come from, or my sudden certainties. Most of the time — as with “covid-19 isn’t nearly as dangerous as we’re being sold” — I have to do a deep dive to figure out if they’re even justified.

I’m not infallible — by any means — partly because often what I “sense” coming is derailed by oh, law enforcement; a sanity pill to the responsible on either side, etc.

However I’m more accurate than mere chance warrants.

I’d sa...

BE NOT AFRAID

When I was little in the playground, and started interposing myself between bullies and their victims — with the understanding one of those times it was interposing between my elderly teacher and the delinquent multi-times-repeaters boys in the school next door — I realized I was a coward.

How did I know that? Because every time I looked at the bigger foe rushing towards me, and I understood I WAS going to get hurt, perhaps severely hurt, I wanted to puke and run away. I was terrified.

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TELL THE TRUTH AND SHAME THE DEVIL

Richard Fernandez had a post on Facebook in which he talked of the Canadian Truck Standoff as the beginning of a global preference cascade.

It might be. Maybe.

I’ll be honest, turning against the Marxist forms of government that have possessed (I speak advisedly) most of the countries of the world has been going on for a long time. But the powers that be, most of them Marxist and running a script, have managed to tamp down all previous outbreaks of rebellion, show them as something the...