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The Cost of Your Self-Image

I’ve already done a post on this. And M. C. A. Hogarth did an excellent post on this. So, why do the third? Well, because we’re talked about the effect of the deeper game in not fighting back against the let’s unrelenting, ceaseless attacks.

But we’ve not talked about the effect on those who fight. Or what you’re doing to them. Yes, you. That the enemy will attack them, is a given. That you choose to condemn them to whatever the other side wishes on them is however on your conscience. An...

Dancing With Memes

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Cat Ladies

I’m going to start with a startling confession: I am a cat lady. There, are you shocked? Running around in circles and rearranging your mental image of me, yet? No? Why not? Could it be because I constantly talk about my cats, when I’m not talking about my kids?

What’s worse, I come by this naturally, having got it from grandma, who was like the platonic ideal of a cat lady, having somewhere between 17 and 30s some named, cared for, clean cats at any given time (To be fair, they were most...

You Don’t Hit A Girl

I’m tired. Maybe the fact that Canada is burning and in the air again has to do with this, or maybe it is the eternal wishful stupidity of the right. Could be either or.

Unfortunately this means I have a fever, which lately happens when I’m having an auto-immune outbreak.

For those of you who are new here, when I get a fever it’s like when other people are on prednisone. I lose what little governor I have. Also, because my head hurts, I become very short on patience.

What does this ...

Dogs, Culture and Fights

Let’s suppose you live with say 20 roommates. (Don’t ask, you just do.) You have a private room, but the common areas include office, living room and kitchen.

You all, by common consensus acquire a beautiful, fluffy puppy, all big eyes and eagerness to please.

The puppy does as puppies everywhere do, and goes on the carpet. You clean it up, but you don’t rub his nose in it, and don’t punish him, because well, he’s a puppy. He doesn’t know he did wrong. He’s just doing what’s natural, ...

whom Do You Serve?

Remember the 2012 DNC? The guy on the street interview? “We all have to belong to something, so why not belong to the government?” while I was screaming at the screen “Some of us prefer to be self-owned and not slaves!”

Funny times. It appears many women — not all but many — particularly the exquisitely indoctrinated ones think they must belong to “women” and that by virtue of being born “female” they owe some kind of allegiance to other people born with a vagina. And that goes double, w...

Getting It Out of the Way

First of all, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa, yes, I did a quick house cleaning yesterday. Forgive me, readers, for I cleaned, and as we all know when I clean things go weird.

Not that this is all that weird, except for the fact that it has all the appearance of a palace coup. As in, one does wonder if Biden knows he dropped out of his campaign. One does wonder, at that, if Biden is alive, or sufficiently compus mentis to know that he has dropped out. And that’s if he knew he was running in...

The Best Part of Valor is Memes

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Aiming the Chilling Effect by M. C. A. Hogarth

*I won’t lie. I have a post, maybe two about this whole thing I want to make. But here’s the thing: I’ve been on the Fight! Fight! Fight! team for a long time. M. C. A. Hogarth though? She’s the nicest person I’ve ever known, always trying to find kind reasons for what the other side does. And yet, she’s now here. These are the times we live in – SAH*

Aiming the Chilling Effect by M. C. A. Hogarth

“I thought not fighting was always the moral choice. But it turns out not fighting is on...

Told By An Idiot

This was not the post I was going to write today, but sometimes — sometimes — an idea comes out of nowhere and whomps you between the eyes.

This morning I woke up to a text from one of you — you know who you are — and suddenly I had this great plot for a thriller in my mind. Yes, I know you’re laughing and of course I’m finishing the mammoth book first. I just want to ask your opinion of how plausible this story is, in your mind, okay?

The names used in this plot are just place holder...