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Mean Girls Versus Western Civilization Versus Savages – by Kate Paulk

Mean Girls Versus Western Civilization Versus Savages – by Kate Paulk

I’m quite sure I’m not the only person who finds the whole spectacle of waving bits that ought to be kept between oneself and one’s significant other(s) rather off-putting, just as I’m sure that one’s genitalia is not where one stores one’s moral compass. Whether said genitalia are damp and somewhat salty or rise to the occasion to point the way to the nearest boobies… ahem… moral decision point is irrelevant.

Quite simply...

More Prizes For Good Girls or a Letter from Sarah to the Political Goldfish

More Prizes For Good Girls or
a Letter from Sarah to the Political Goldfish

Yesterday I kind of lost my temper.  It was Facebook.  I got just one too many reminders that we were celebrating International Women’s Day.  And didn’t I want to show solidarity?  And celebrate women?

Look, it’s not my fault.  I was bit by International Socialism as a child and it’s the sort of thing that causes an allergy for life.  Oh, yeah, and International ANYTHING day is a socialist thing, because they never fu...

The Dose Makes the Poison – Orvan Ox

The Dose Makes the Poison – Orvan Ox

Cyanide is a poison. On that there is no real argument. A biochemist could explain how it messes up a deep level of a key system and is thus a very nasty poison. And yet there are foods, intentionally eaten even by the non-suicidal, that contain cyanide. But people aren’t dropping dead due to eating spinach or even lima beans [Are you sure about lima beans? – Ed]. What gives? What gives is that while spinach and lima beans and other foods do indeed contain...

Race And Racism

There is one thing in which liberal activists are right: everyone is racist.  There is one thing in which they’re wrong: everyone is racist.

Racism is not confined to white people — and the idea that it equals prejudice plus power is an interesting (and stupid, as usual) Marxist distortion we’ll deal with later — it’s a characteristic of being human.

Why?  Oh, like most other things because it was evolutionarily sound.  I.e. those who had it survived and had more kids.

The thing is it’s not s...

Healing from Toxic Whiteness- Alan Miller

 

Healing from Toxic Whiteness- Alan Miller  

This is the title of an online course from the good people at EveryDay Feminism. Here’s a few selections from the description. Feel free to mock (or weep) as the mood strikes you:

So with Trump’s policies starting to roll out, you know you want to be fighting alongside people of color. But you also know that you may feel frozen in place by the feelings of shock, confusion, denial, and guilt that many white people have been dealing with since the e...

Sunday Vignettes by Luke, ‘Nother Mike and Mary Catelli and The Promo It Is Aflying by Free Range Oyster.

Sunday Vignettes by Luke, ‘Nother Mike and Mary Catelli and The Promo It Is Aflying by Free Range Oyster. Sunday Vignettes by Luke, ‘Nother Mike and Mary Catelli

So what’s a vignette? You might know them as flash fiction, or even just sketches. We will provide a prompt each Sunday that you can use directly (including it in your work) or just as an inspiration. You, in turn, will write about 50 words (yes, we are going for short shorts! Not even a Drabble 100 words, just half that!). Then po...

The State of The State of The Writer

Looking at that title, I want to emphasize that this is NOT  a post on Colorado which, in this fine morning, seems to be warm (yesterday we got to 70 though that might be urban isle effect, since it was not supposed to get that hot) and rather rosy.  Or at least the sky is rosy.

At six am I got up too late to see the city lights outside my sunroom as I had breakfast.  Or at least they were rather pale and wan.  It’s the beginning of summer, and in a way the beginning of a new phase in my life...

Life, Liberty, Reasonably Priced Love

This is a quick throw away post.  I’m not dead, but I am very busy.  However, younger son pinged me on FB and said “Do the dems really think that the right to Healthcare INSURANCE really is a universal human right?  What part of unalienable and natural did they fail to get?”

I told him the left side of the isle DOES indeed believe so.

And hence, this post.

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness are the rights listed in the declaration of independence.  And they’re so listed because they’r...

Blanketed

Yesterday someone asked about my post “upside down” and why cheap data processing and storing and communication would affect our social structure.

What I answered with was an example from my field and I’m going to repeat it here, and then we’re going to explore some other things.

My field is,  of course, the area I know best how this worked.

If I am to believe memoirs, the field was fully taken over by the left in the forties.  This would explain the rather gratuitous (and quite mind-twisting...

The Great Realignment by Nitay Arbel

*Nitay had sent me this post before I did yesterday’s, and he thought it had been rendered obsolete by yesterday’s post.  I think rather, it is a good complementary post, showing I’m not air-dreaming. The symptoms are there.*

The Great Realignment  by Nitay Arbel

“Masgramondou” shared a most interesting article: http://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/02/theresa-mays-new-third-way/ about Theresa May in the UK, about whom he is about to post on his blog https://ombreolivier.liberty.me

[UPDATE: https:/...