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Truth Bombs

It is a truth universally acknowledged that while the Left has rats in their heads, (Marxist rats, at that. No rat that could survive in the real world, even), they come up with pretty catchy phrasing.

Not that they use the phrases right, of course. I mean, we could tattoo “I don’t think this word means what you think it means” on their foreheads (backwards, so they could read it in the mirror) since that problem is pretty much constant. Because as usual they mistake form and function, co...

Kith And Kin

I would like to talk about finding your place in the world, loving it, fitting in and being ousted by it by politics, and political insanity and resentment.

I do this at the risk of being told to cry you a river, and in full understanding that at least I can still earn a living. It could, and for a lot of people it is, worse. You wouldn’t be wrong. Except…

Except that the left is a deranged cult, affirming things on fiat that have no contact with reality and demanding more and more tha...

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Across The Ages

Years ago, I came across someone a little older than my kids who refused to read Heinlein juveniles because “they’re dated.”

Uh… note this was someone in his thirties. There might be some legitimate claim that the language, being dated, would be difficult for new readers, but even that, surely not with a mere fifty years difference.

Meanwhile my kids grew up reading Heinlein juveniles, and Enid Blyton books most of them taking place just before or during WWII in an England that no long...

Truth

Tucker Carlson first public appearance after leaving fox hit me very hard, the ones about truth. (Ignore the ancillary stuff from WSJ, but there’s a video here.)

It hit me hard because I’d been thinking along those lines already: how powerful the truth is. How suddenly telling even a grain of truth can dissolve a river of lies.

First I want to say for the rest of you, who simply aren’t sensitive to the feel of professions and places that no, none of this muzzling and cancelling is rec...

Farewell to Childhood – a guest post by the Balloonatic

Farewell to Childhood – a guest post by the Balloonatic

Even though I am in my early fifties, I have still clung to parts of my childhood. To the things which brought me joy and happiness, through good times and bad. To the love that I passed on to my son, and which has been a big part of his childhood. I am speaking of my love of Lego.

Lego has been an iconic part of many childhoods throughout the world. I remember when my parents bought my brother and sister and I our first sets – hu...

20th Century Puzzle

About ten years ago, someone pointed out that for wars and governments massacring their own people, alone –leaving aside changes in the way things are made and done that meant great dislocations for people, perhaps as high as what took place throughout the three centuries of the industrial revolution — the 20th century was as “bad” as the 14th.

Not exactly wrong, except that the 20th century also saw a marked standard of living worldwide. (So did the 14th, but that’s mostly because for a...

It’s Time to Start Again a guest post by Holly Frost

It’s a truism in homesteading and prepper forums, or was back in the early aughts, that TEOTWAWKI–The End Of The World As We Know It–happens to someone every single day.  Sometimes it happens to a lot of someones: things like The Fall of the Berlin Wall, 9/11, the world as we knew it ended.

In March of 2020, the entire world ended.

Not uniformly, as best I can tell quite a few places noticed very little beyond the end of tourism and a few corrupt fat cats getting even fatter and smugge...

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Cosplaying Decay

I don’t think it came across on my Seventies post that it wasn’t “real”. The point is not that the seventies are returning, but that the people that be are hard forcing a replay of it, in appearance.

It doesn’t work with the people on the ground because “we’re running out of oil” is now seen to be a blatant lie. We remember when they shut down the pipeline and fracking. And we saw that both under Reagan and Trump prices and availability of oil came back, which means it’s not “we’re runni...