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The Vegas Point

“Weebles wobble, but they don’t fall down.”

Well, maybe not.

There was a time when you could get a hotel room in Las Vegas for five bucks and even adjusted for inflation that would be about $40 dollars today.

Of course, there have always been “whale” penthouses and suites, but the lumpen gambler – if they played their cards right – could “Do Vegas” cheaper than any other tourist mecca would cost.

No kids of course, but that was kinda the point then – everything that happened in Vegas stayed in V...

Deeply Intriguing Memo in JFK File Dump

I am indebted to fellow Substack author, Jon Fleetwood, for drawing my attention to a deeply intriguing memo that was part of the JFK files that were just dumped. Fleetwood’s piece on the memo is linked below.

The CIA memo, dated 19th July 1967, opens with a long quotation from an article published in Ramparts, June 1967.

As Fleetwood points out, though the Ramparts piece was already public:

…the newly released CIA files are significant because they confirm the Agency was aware of Underhill’s al...

No War No NATO

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Sacrificing Truth at the Altar of Gender Ideology

On February 5, three prominent biologists and presidents of major biological associations wrote a letter to President Trump and Congress opposing his January 2025 Executive Order 14168, titled “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.” The letter alleges that scientific evidence contradicts the binary view of sex by emphasizing the complexity of sex determination involving chromosomes, hormones, and anatomy, and highlighting variati...

The Consummate Metagelical

Last weekend there was a ceremony held in a little park called Potager du Dauphin in my hometown Meudon. The ceremony marked the completion of the restoration of a small Russian orthodox chapel located in the park. I provide here a short background history of the park and the chapel before introducing you to a particularly interesting life associated with this site.

Consider the partial map of Meudon below. The Av. du Chateau leads up to the Terrace de L’Observatoire, the site of the Château de ...

Time for New Borders Again as Another POTUS Does Yalta

Well, the Trumpian box of chocolates continues to yield its surprises. Just as Forest Grump once averred.

We are referring to the news that Donald Trump may acknowledge the obvious in his peace negotiations with Putin. To wit, that the Russian-speaking, Russian-settled, centuries-long Russian territory of Crimea does not have to be returned to the Ukrainian interlopers as a condition of peace after all—the loud insistence since the Maidan coup of February 2014 by Zelensky, the Bidenestas and the...

Can Trump Control the Golems?

As a New York investor, Trump is probably familiar with the concept of a golem. A golem is a little model made of clay or wood, that somehow godlike, you breathe life into. Your golem is to be your obedient and profitable little servant, and yet it often becomes an uncontrollable nightmare, for you and everyone else.

Golem fables remind us that when imperfect humans play God, things happen.  Sometimes these things are hilarious, as in the tale of The Gingerbread Man, or horrifying and deadly as ...

Invasion of the Killer Karens

I love women. There is nothing more heartwarming than a kind word or touch from a real lady. Or a sincere smile emanating from a beautiful face. What used to be called “the feminine virtues” are timeless qualities that fueled human civilization. Someone needed to tame the brutish nature of males. Females were very adept at that.

In my lifetime, traditional feminine traits have been figuratively drone bombed out of existence. Even something as time honored as cooking. Find the last television sho...

Civil War Inside the White House

From the Tom Woods Letter:

It was bound to happen, but it’s manifesting itself sooner than many people expected:

There’s a war brewing inside Trump circles on foreign policy.

It was obvious that some Trump allies had been uncomfortable about all the antiwar talk, because they do have wars they’d like to wage if given the chance, and because it’s inconsistent with their propagandistic yammering about “American leadership around the world.”

“American leadership around the world,” in case you haven...

19 Reasons Why the Federal Reserve Is at the Heart of Our Economic Problems

Most Americans have absolutely no idea how we got into the mess that we are in today.  The reason why the U.S. government is 36 trillion dollars in debt and our society as a whole is 102 trillion dollars in debt is because the system is performing exactly as it was designed.  We have a system that was literally designed to create colossal amounts of debt.  But if you ask most Americans about this, they cannot tell you what the Federal Reserve is or why it is at the heart of our economic problems...