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Something Wicked This Way Comes

Sorry, today will involve a lot of reading, some of it published on this blog years ago. But if you don’t do it, I’ll seem to be making castles in air and it won’t make much sense.

First let’s get some stuff out of the way. Yesterday I posted this in comments:

I officially declared an invasion at our border because of Biden's policies.

We deployed the Texas National Guard, DPS & local law enforcement.

We are building a border wall, razor wire & marine barriers.

We are also repelling migr...

Nekulturny

One of the perennial accusations from the left against us was — still is — in the term of the left’s beloved USSR that we were “nekulturny.” Which is to say without culture.

One of my favorite books — in fact the basis for the essay that got me into the exchange student program, without which I wouldn’t have known there was a place I belonged — is Farenheit 451. The words “I am Ecclesiastes” sends a shiver up my spine. Because in the context of the book it represents the thin thread of me...

Through The Perilous Night

A couple of nights ago, I got in a weird confluence of ideas.

I have found out recently that when my phone got spoofed, and my email hacked, back in April of 2021, it was part of an effort that involved a lot of people on our side getting that happening to them at the same time. The email was then used to send insulting emails to those people they thought were monetary supporters. At the same time, the emails were rifled for “incriminating” messages, used to bring legal charges against t...

Perseverance by the Balloonatic

Perseverance by the Balloonatic

There is a saying that God does not give us more to bear than we can handle. I think, no matter your religious beliefs or lack of belief we all come to a point where we just cry out “Enough!” I have reached that point many times in my life. One problem arises after another until I’m overwhelmed and feel ready to break or run away or just crawl back into bed and put the blankets over my head and hide.

In the world we live in, this can happen in many differ...

Treason is Never An accident

Okay, it’s on the face of it hilarious, which is why people are responding the way they are.

My friend, Stephen Green makes much hay out of it in this column: The Marines Need Help Finding a Lost Stealth Fighter and Nobody Can Stop Laughing.

However, let’s be real here: there are limits to incompetence. Yes, even the incompetence of our government.

There is also, no shit Sherlock, limits to what you should be willing to swallow. Even if the plane was left on autopilot, it would hav...

Let’s Meme Like we Mean It

By The Pricking Of My Thumbs

Some people wonder if time runs both ways. I mean, if our minds are unmoored in time, and we keep them in the prescribed place by an effort of the conscious thought.

No, I don’t have cites, but are they really needed? Mostly it comes down to I spent a lot of time, in my life, reading a lot of philosophers on the subject of time; reading a lot of researchers on the subject of precognition; reading a lot of science fiction (which might be the most honest speculation of all); and ultimately,...

Fractions vs Integers – a guest post by Maryh10000

Fractions vs Integers – a guest post by Maryh10000

Lots of highly sensitive, averagely masculine boys and men believe they’re feminine. Let’s be clear: sensitive ≠ feminine. – detrans male

Men and women, girls and boys, are being alienated from their bodies. There are many aspects of this. One of them has to do with how we talk about the differences between the sexes.

There are, in fact, meaningful differences between men and women. While they vary on the individual level, in the ag...

The Power of Belief

When the Soviet Union fell, and I was a just-turning-thirty year old, I was very surprised at the sudden flourishing of strange beliefs and bizarre cults in the once state-atheist-nation.

I was surprised because suddenly it was all things that flourished in the west under the influence of heavy drugs, or various “scams” that wouldn’t fool a child of eight, but which got massive following in the newly liberated Russia.

I was surprised because I didn’t understand the mechanisms behind it...

Conspiring

In the last week, I had one of the most bizarre experiences I ever had on Facebook. Bear with me. I speak advisedly.

Yes, in that site which is known for being like the comment section of most crazy blogs, this one interaction took the cake, with a side of ice-cream and a cherry on top.

Someone I’d never heard of before or since, and with whom I don’t remember having a single interaction anywhere, left a post on my timeline out of the blue to say that though I’m a deranged conspiracy t...