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Destroying the Future

Over the last several years, I’ve become aware as a society we’re not just devaluing boys. We’re destroying them and making it impossible for them to grow into productive men. Youth unemployment in general is fairly bad, because honestly not only aren’t preparing kids for work, but older people assume even kids who are prepared aren’t.

We’ve swung from a youth culture, of assuming children were always right, to a culture of assuming anyone younger than, well a little older than me, are m...

All The Memes safe to Steal

Man Was Born To Strive

Recently we were talking about what we would have done if we’d known what was ahead.

By and large we’re okay, and the kids turned out okay, but I have great remorse that I tried to write when they were small, and often prioritized writing over spending time with them. This rather ignores the fact that I’m more neurotic than a shaved cat and would probably have driven them insane(r) if they were my 24/7 job.

But anyway, I said something like “I would not have spent my time beating my h...

Associations A guest Post by David Bock

*I want to apologize for two guest posts in a row. I’m still late on the serializing blog too. So: Dan had hernia surgery in the beginning of the month for multiple hernias. He’s healing slowly, which is normal for diabetics. This means he can’t lift anything. So I must go shopping with, etc. just in case. On top of added responsibilities because of younger son and future DIL being out (Cats, quails to look after) this week and next, things have entered a vortex of crazy on this side. I got up a...

Letter From A Minotaur: Dear Humans, you F[REA]KING MADE IT! by Orvan Ox

Letter From A Minotaur: Dear Humans, you F[REA]KING MADE IT! – by Orvan Ox

Yeah, sure, things looks difficult and maybe even grim, now. But that’s a look down to one of the highest abysses (yes, I know that seems nonsense) from an even higher Really High Ground.  Yes, things are going weird, screwy, and the immediate future is not going to be wine and roses. There are certainly places to not be – downtown in many large cities, even in the First World. All too many supposedly “enlightened”...

That Water Is Not The Fountain of Youth

This is a very funny post for me personally to write. For the record, I’m in beyond complete sympathy with the meme that says “I don’t want to adult today. I don’t even want to human. Today I want to cat” with a picture of a sleeping cat.

Probably this is because my main feeling right now is of being exhausted. Physically, emotionally, morally. It doesn’t matter, mind you, because the burden is right there, and what are these shoulders for if not to bear it. It has to be done, so it’s d...

Coordinated storm of crap

Many of us are amused with how fast the left acquires a sudden mission to propagate the one holy acceptable opinion. How it changes overnight, and how it comes from all of them at once, in almost the same words. And how it gets repeated ad-nauseam, in defiance of all sense, until the message changes.

This has led the least kind among us (eh. Myself, sometimes) to refer to our leftist brethren as “NPC”s who do whatever the programmers put in their heads.

The sad truth, though, is they’r...

How To Write Short Stories

The idea dictates the size of the story.

“I can’t write a short story. I try and it turns into a novel.”

Okay. On the one hand, I understand. The first thing I wrote in English was forty thousand words, and it was basically an outline. When unpacked it became 120k words.

But you see, I had no idea how I broke in. And in the mid 80s, what I could find available on library shelves told me the way to break in was to submit to magazines and get a following and the eye of editors that way, a...

Merit

When we’re talking about the regime of incompetency we live under, there are many causes we can adduce, all contributing to this fine mess we find ourselves in.

Yes, there is reduced competence in teaching, which echoes down the line. Yes, our corporations, largely through aiding and abetting of big government and “management doctrine stupid” have decided that individuals don’t matter. Like publishing, in the last 30 to 40 years, they convinced themselves that you could pick up anyone off...

Zafiil: A Review By Kermit Grenoille

Zafiil: A Review By Kermit Grenoille

Every so often, I run across a book that speaks to me, on levels deeper than the surface storyline.  Stories that hold examples of humanity’s hope and hubris, of innocence and pride, of sin and redemption.  I’m not a fan of being preached at by my reading material, unless I specifically seek out something for this or that purpose, or for general edification.  Usually, I read fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, as sheer escapism and to enjoy a lovely story.

Bu...