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Ignorance is not Bliss By David Bock

Ignorance is not Bliss By David Bock

For those that think high school students protesting things they don’t understand is anything new, back in the mid-1980s I experienced my fellow students protest the forming of a military history club. This happened at one of the most prestigious science high schools in New York City.

We were called vile names, our meeting posters were vandalized or destroyed, and the other members of the club and I were harassed on and off school grounds.  All of t...

The Shape of Our Problems

Before I start this, let me explain that “stupid” is not meant to cover “nonintellectual”. There is a tendency among those of us who are good with words to consider anyone lacking that facility “stupid.”

For years Dan and I joked that each of our colleagues thought we’d married someone mentally deficient. I, because Dan is often not verbally fluent (though fluent in writing. Younger son has same problem), his because I can’t do big math off the top of my head.

But even beyond that, I...

No Post Today

Sorry, was out of pocket all day. Not near a keyboard. Will try to do post tomorrow, but can’t make any hard promises. If all else fails, I’ll do it on Tuesday, I promise.

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Where Do We Go From Here?

I think yesterday some of us got a very bad shock. Not what the left thinks. We knew they were deranged enough to arrest Trump for…. doing exactly — and far less obnoxiously — what Hilary did in 2016. But almost all of us had one person, that remaining moderate leftist in our lives who were suddenly filled with glee and couldn’t stop celebrating, as though unaware that the door they opened leads to destruction and death unless a miracle happens.

Let’s be clear here, this is not about...

Abbreviated Elements of How Democrats Have Ruined Everyone’s Political Prospects by Bob the Fool

Abbreviated Elements of How Democrats Have Ruined Everyone’s Political Prospectsby Bob the Fool

The fundamental issue is that the Democrats have deeply screwed themselves and everyone else over when it comes to dispute resolution.

Succession to a kingship becomes a more fraught issue a) the more power that the old king had b) the more that people fear that one of the potential new kings will be a crazier asshole to them.

The purpose of the American election system and the Americ...

The Fraud Is Afoot

Before I post this, I’ll not that I’m not holding THE OFFICE in Colorado as guilty. Maybe, but this was, at least until recently, the most conservative small suburban town in Colorado. It might have changed, but their elections were scrupulously clean before. In fact, my DIL worked for them in 2018 as a temp and was impressed with how thorough they were, for vote by mail. In fact, our younger son’s signature got flagged while living there because he had done something stupid to his hand and...

Pedophilia And Power

I’ve been wondering about the undeniable prevalence of “pedophiles in high places.” Undeniable because underneath everything there is still the fact that our “elites” not only aren’t interested in destroying networks of trafficking, but are openly hostile to any attempts to expose their existence: as their screams at Sound of Freedom showed. It’s not a good look.

It’s puzzled me, because such a fixation is by its nature anti-evolutionary and it’s a weird thing to be coveted by those who ...

A Clearer Picture

I have good news. And then again bad news.

Because in history there is never unalloyed good news. Or if you prefer, the enemy always gets a vote. And sometimes their vote is stupid, cruel, full of malice and destruction. And when they know they’re losing it’s worse.

The good news, and I’ve said this for sometime, is that we, the lovers of liberty, are winning.

This is so shocking that people my generation and older have trouble seeing it or believing it. You see, for most of our c...

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