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The Memes of Love

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Preserved In Amber

Reality is a horrible foe to fight. You can delay it for a bit, but it always wins.

Have you ever tried standing on one foot? I do it on the regular when I put my jeans or socks on. And it’s fine. However, if I try standing on a foot for more than two minutes or so… well, I can. It’s not a big deal really. Except every minute it gets a little harder, and eventually the other foot is going to come down on the floor.

The left has been standing on one foot since 1991, when the Soviet U...

The Perfect Moment

As we watch the fireworks and the dizzying dismantling of the overgrown, twisted brambles of the deep state, a thought keeps coming up in all our groups and chats: Why hasn’t this happened before?

People have asked why Reagan didn’t do this, even…

Guys, this literally happened the earliest it could. The absolutely earliest it could.

Look, when FDR set the train rolling for the strangling of liberty and the ever-increasing state and power of the state over America — Did he think he’d...

The Lesson of Robespierre – by Charlie Martin

The Lesson of Robespierre – by Charlie Martin

It can be sourly amusing reading what liberals say. Lawrence Tribe is a perpetual source of amusement — this guy is a law professor? Seriously? — but it can be really sort of depressing reading what some conservatives say.
Too often, conservatives don’t think out what they’re saying, and so use fancy words without thinking out what they mean.
Now, one of my pet peeves is “treason”. It’s a tough one for a lot of people because it’s very specifica...

From The Get Go

I had no clue what USAID was. Like perhaps most people, I thought it was a way for the US to do “charity” abroad.

I had a ton of philosophical problems with it, obviously. For one, I don’t know what the purpose of a government, which takes money from is own people via taxes, but foreign charity is not it. I mean, there’s nothing in our constitution that says the Federal government has the right to take our money and do stuff they consider good abroad, for any purpose, including because t...

Assumptions

I have a post about the USAID funding/what it actually did right from the beginning percolating, which in turn might give some clue of what’s to come in the other agencies, but I need time and a clear mind to do it, and today isn’t it.

Mostly because I woke up late, and it’s already been a very strange day, so–

Instead let’s talk about assumptions and PTSD. In this case reading PTSD.

This morning, while sitting and waiting for something, I decided to browse Jane Austen fanfic on my...

In the year 2025 If man is still alive If woman can survive They may Meme!

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Aw, Mr. President, Don’t Do Us Like This!

Or, In Which I Laugh At My Own Unreasonable Hopes.

For the first time in three weeks, today I woke up (late, because apparently recovering, but want you guys to know I’m still improving) and skimmed the news on my phone and had an instant big mad.

I mean, yeah, okay, Trump is trying to abolish taxes on tips, and social security, and bring back tax breaks for the middle class, and–

And excuse me, but this is so much bullshit. SO MUCH FRESH BULLSHIT.

Before I go on, and so you un...

Surreal

What a time to be alive!

If you have missed it, I can’t even track down all the tweets, but let’s say that for the last week or so, Elon Musk has been catching USAID, skinning it, anatomizing it, and hanging its ugly, diseased entrails out for the world to see.

If you miss all of it, you can probably start here and here and poke around to see the rest. As far as I can tell, USAID whom the idiots on the left are trying to protect by saying their budget is only 0.7% of the government’s ...

Feeling Awful? Check Your Thyroid by Holly Chism

Feeling Awful? Check Your Thyroid by Holly Chism

I’ve been fighting my own body for the past decade and a half, now.  Almost exactly, as of the middle of this coming May.  All from one itty-bitty gland not doing what it was supposed to do. 

My son is sixteen, now.  When I had him, I was warned that I’d be exhausted for a long time.  Well, they were right, but it went on a lot longer than it should have: the exhaustion should have passed within about six to eight months, especially sinc...