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Wright's Writing Corner: Guest Blog by Merry Muhsman

Writing Friend Merry with a delightful article on Encouragement.
http://arhyalon.livejournal.com/129650.html#

When I was young, I hated water-skiing. Everyone in my family could ski. It was some sort of rite of passage. For me, it was downright terrifying. I was scared of the pull of the boat, and I let go of the rope as soon as my Dad accelerated. I suppose I thought my arms would rip from their sockets or something silly. Or my life jacket wouldn’t hold me and I would...

Pity the Cultural Elite by Victor Hanson

I here reprint without comment an article by classicist and gentleman farmer Victor Hanson.
Pity the Cultural Elite By Victor Davis Hanson
I think most of our problems transcend politics, which is increasingly a reflection of an elite, insider culture that is completely at odds with the majority of the country that it oversees.
So what is a cultural elite?
It is a sloppy term that might include the academic class in the university that educates our children in college. The upper echelons ...

America's Ruling Class — And the Perils of Revolution

I here reprint without comment an article from the American Spectator.

America’s Ruling Class — And the Perils of Revolution By Angelo M. Codevilla from the July 2010 – August 2010 issue
As over-leveraged investment houses began to fail in September 2008, the leaders of the Republican and Democratic parties, of major corporations, and opinion leaders stretching from the National Review magazine (and the Wall Street Journal) on the right to the Nation magazine on the left, a...

The Trashed Airbender

As a general rule of thumb, doing the mere opposite of whatever Political Correctors would have you do, is likely to bring you felicity and joy: and so it has for me this weekend.

For me this was no light decision. I was caught, writhing in uncertainty like a fish on a line, in a dilemma between the absurdly high price charged to see the film, my desire to live up the promise I had made my shrieking children we could go see it, and my fear that the film would be truly bad, as all the...

On Racism

The NAACP officially denounced the Tea Party Movement as racist. IN other news, the CAIR backed and supported the NAACP’s denunciation. Here are some links, two of which are from Tea Party members who happen to be Black.

http://article.nationalreview.com/438192/naacp-hurls-false-racism-charge-at-the-tea-party-movement/deroy-murdock

http://biggovernment.com/arachel/2010/07/16/the-fashion-of-reverse-racism-and-victimhood/

New Look

The comments boxes annoyed me, and so with my L33t ninja-wp editing skills, I, um … did something that made them sort of go away.

Let us have a vote. Is this better? Worse? Neither?

Is it more attractive or less attractive than Wonder Woman’s new uniform?

For those of you not familiar with the recent debate on this all important topic gripping the entire free world, I can sum up.

Here is a picture of Linda Carter, wearing the old Wonder Woman uniform. As we all know, it is patriotic to go...

What is a Pantheon and Why is it Mad at Me?

 

This is a re-post of a piece I wrote last year for the fine fellows at Sf Signal.

Q: In a created fantasy world, gods can proliferate by the hundreds. When building religious systems for fantasies, what are the advantages/disadvantages of inventing pantheons vs. single gods, or having no religious component at all?

You can read answers from science fiction authors more famous than yours truly here: http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2009/04/mind-meld-gods-by-the-bushel/

My (typically...

Zen and the Art of Napping on Motorcycles

In a recent discussion of Wonder Woman’s new less-attractive yet also less-patriotic looking 80’s Mall Rat crimefighting gear, more than one reader opined that he did not “get” the whole don-leotards-to-fight-crime shtick. Some wondered why super-vigilantes did not dress in riot police gear.

Allow me to explain. Let us suppose your great-great-grandfather swore an unbreakable oath that he and all his descendants, including you, had to fight the scourge of piracy. Let us suppose you...

Wonder Woman's New Duds are Duds

No doubt the entire free world is wondering about the opinion of obscure midlist science fiction author, John C. Wright, concerning the most troubling and significant issue of our time: Wonder Woman’s new costume.

Wonder Woman's Many Looks

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Can Sarah and St. Elizibeth Fornicate Licitly?

Part of an Ongoing Conversation:

“If your argument is that it is immoral to father a child out of wedlock and leave that child and its mother to their own devices, I do not believe you will find anyone here to argue against that fact. However, what happens if I and my sweetie are both 80, well past child bearing age?

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