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January 24, 2018
Semantic Confusion
My problem with the women’s marches, the one last year, and the one now, is that I still don’t understand them. What’s more, the people marching in them don’t seem to understand them.
Go look at that link, I dare you. When asked why they were marching in the … ah, sisterhood of the traveling pussy hats… the enlightened activists gave the following answers:
“So future generations don’t have to.”
“My Mother and Planned Parenthood.”
“My mother, she’s a homeless person.”
“I don’t want my childr...
January 23, 2018
We’re Already That Which Passes
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I used to think my grandmother had seen amazing change in her lifetime. She did, look you. She was born in 1904, in a village that still had iron rings embedded in every wall or pavement near the door, so you could tie your horse, while going about your errands.
She died in 1992, in a world that had not only sent flights to the moon, but where flights to other continents were normal and easy and even (relatively) affordable, compared to the long transatlantic ship travel my grandfather did...
January 21, 2018
The Siege- by Bill Reader
The de facto position of the Democrats in what I’m coming to think of as the annual government shutdown scare is maybe more ridiculous this year than it’s ever been before. This year is criminal hostage-taking at its finest—the Democrats struggling to set up a heads-I-win-tails-you-lose without anybody noticing.
To boil down the essentials—Democrats want DACA. No surprise there. They’ve spent long enough screwing over average Americans with their policies that said Am...
An Announcement and Sunday Vignettes by Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike
An announcement from this blog’s management (who happens to be wearing pajamas and having her first cup of coffee, but you can imagine me in a business suit and looking sharp, if it works better for you.) We have a new address for book pimpage. It goes by the veddy cryptic address of bookpimping at outlook dot com. If you have a book coming out, or a book on sale, or even a book you loved and want to tell the world about, send us the Amazon link at that email, and we’ll put it up on Sunday...
January 20, 2018
On the Psychology of Friendship and Social Media – by Cedar Sanderson
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On the Psychology of Friendship and Social Media – by Cedar SandersonI ran across a paper the other day about the correlation of social media and self-esteem. The study was conducted on people who posted a photo, and how they felt when it got a lot of ‘likes’ versus few or none. The results were not terribly surprising, but still interesting when teased out into a statistical analysis of the human reactions to one another. The takeaway from the paper: “we also predicted that having a sense...
January 19, 2018
Shiny! Let’s be Bad!
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Most humans want to fit in, and will go a long way to fit in. In fact, most if not all dictatorships in the 20th century depended on this impulse. “You don’t want the neighbors to think you’re a bad person” or mutatis mutandi, Jew/Jew sympathizer/wrecker/hoarder/saboteur/running dog of the imperialism/etc etc.
No army in the world can hold even a small mutinous fraction of a large population in subjection, if they are not held back by internal controls and stops, and the ancient social-ape...
January 18, 2018
Lenin’s The State and Revolution – An Introduction – by Amanda S. Green
Last night, I talked with Sarah about today’s post. Unlike last week’s post, or even the series on Clinton’s What Happened, this post simply wasn’t coming together. I finally had to put it aside and tell her I’d get her the post this morning. I needed to sleep on it and, hopefully, inspiration would strike. In the light of day, I’m not sure inspiration struck, but I realized what the problem was. Simply put, the 1933 edi...
January 17, 2018
On Shaking The Dust From One’s Sandals
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Portugal is not a shithole. I think I can say that impartially, since I’ve acculturated long ago, and wouldn’t go back there to live if you sent wild horses to drag me that way.
It feels profoundly uncomfortable to most Americans. I can say that too, because I am an American, because it was built not with the dictates of the free market — I’ll sell you anything so long as you buy it — in mind, but with other dictates, including pride, appearance and a lot of other stuff.
This is why the fa...
January 16, 2018
Telling the Hard Truth – by Dave Freer
Hello. My name is Dave and I came from a shit-hole.
My friend Sarah Hoyt pointed me to a self-righteous fury spewing from the South African ANC (the political party which has governed South Africa since the end of apartheid) about the idea of South Africa being a shit-hole and bad America was. I was born there, and eventually migrated to Australia, of which I am now a proud citizen, and which I love, and try my best to pay back for its enormous generosi...
January 15, 2018
Wrong Battle, Insane Tactics
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So I was reading Margaret Atwood’s article. Yes, I know. What can I say. It’s a very specialized form of masochism.
I wrote a post about it for PJMedia, which hopefully will go live today. It’s about one of the things that truly annoyed me about the article. Just one. Mostly the fact that she doesn’t see the link between her actions and present insanity. It’s like Robespierre stopping at the top of the steps to the guillotine and going “how did things get like this?”
But that’s only a...
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