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I’m Having Technical Difficulties

Withe the book pimping email, and need to dress and go to church, so book promo after.

Meanwhile, OH MY GOSH, GUYS! THANK YOU:

And thank you, whoever you are who wrote this review. My head is so swollen I go through doors sideways now. This might be the BEST review of my lifetime:

And while I go dress and to church, yeah, yeah, I beat the clankers into a futuristic tavern video and….

Let There Be Memes

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The Strategic Dinosaur

People have been baffled as to why Jimmy Kimmel didn’t just apologize and avoid being fired. Also why a lot of the left is doubling down on what’s obviously the 20% side of an 80-20 issue, like…. Oh, standing for illegal immigration. or the 10 side of a 10-90 issue, like outright standing for more criminality.

What you’re failing to understand is that there is a strategy to it. It’s a defective strategy that no longer works, but it was such a good move for so long that it got deep-embedde...

The Kimmel Nose Under The Tent

Before you freak out, not I’m not doing a “both sides” thing and I’ll confess to more than a bit of glee at seeing Kimmel banished to the outer darkness where there will be gnashing of teeth and pathetic walking around the streets trying to get passerbyes to agree with him. Okay, fine, that’s Don le Lemon, but still. (But he was intending to retire. Yeah, yeah, more on that later.)

But–

Yes, I do know he outright lied, and that his shtick as a comedian is the same clown nose on, clown ...

If This Isn’t Danger, Then WHAT THE HECK IS?!? or Loosening the (Nearly) Impossible Standard-by Alpheus Madsen.

If This Isn’t Danger, Then WHAT THE HECK IS?!? or Loosening the (Nearly) Impossible Standard-by Alpheus Madsen.

This Guest Blog Post started off its life as a comment to Sarah’s previous post from a few days ago, But! It’s Madness! – According to Hoyt, where she expresses the conflict between two very important, and very valid concerns: 

(1) the need to help the obviously mental ill who are on the streets, and who are obviously impacting society in harmful ways, and

(2) the need t...

Careful Times

There was a time in the late seventies or early eighties (I think early eighties because I was in college) when a terrorist group of broadly commie tendencies (Italian) was “fighting” industrialists, which was actually an euphemism for threatening/kidnapping/etc rich people for cash.

Dad wasn’t one (mom and dad did okay considering where they started, but they never went past mid-mid while they had kids in the house) but he worked for one. As in, he managed factories. Which I guess looked...

A Perilous Moment

A friend and I used to joke that when we’re very old — considering she’s much younger than I, but we both come from long-lived families — we’ll be considered raging left wing extremist, while having changed absolutely nothing about our beliefs.

Is she right? I don’t know, but I can tell you I get the feeling she might be. And that scares the living spit out of me. And it should scare the living spit out of you. And I don’t care how right wing you consider yourself to be.

First because ...

Meming The Apocalypse

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Do Not Go Silent! by Todd R. Maxwell

Do Not Go Silent! by Todd R. Maxwell

Charlie Kirk’s courage demands our own

Charlie Kirk was murdered over words.

That is unacceptable, and that should be all there is to say.

Sadly, it’s not.

Political violence is indefensible. Full stop. No matter the ideology, no matter the target, no matter the moment—murder is not debate. Assassination is not argument. And silencing a voice with a bullet is not winning. But let’s be equally clear: political violence cannot be met with pol...

The Wounded Beast

Normally I hold 9/11 for memory and thought and for missing, maybe, that other timeline, where perhaps things would be better. Or at least we’d be more innocent and trusting.

Today I must write this. And the reason I must write this is another reason to miss yet another timeline where I might have been more innocent and trusting. Though perhaps it’s more fair to say: where a lot of us wouldn’t be so angry.

I had a brief dip through twitter, because No Man’s Land hit #3 in Galactic Empi...