The theory of stochastic terrorism classifies some public rhetoric as terrorism if it has the potential to incite political violence regardless of intent, specificity or even subsequent violence. While it did not originate on the left it was taken up and developed by leftwing theorists after the rise of Donald Trump. The term gained popularityContinue reading “Will No One Rid Us of this Counterfeit Theory?”
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Stochastic Fantastic
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Re-run
This is from 2020. What started out as a story about a certain virus and the insanity it produced became a story about virality and the insanity it produces. It parodies another story by a familiar American author. Day of the Red Eye In the meantime it was folly to grieve, or to think. RapperContinue reading “Re-run”
The Etiquette of Imperial Failure
It’s inadvisable to weigh in late on these things, when so many have weighed in so much already, but regarding the recent New York Times feature “The Partnership: The Secret History of the War in Ukraine”; first, what the Times gets (half) right, albeit by questionable pro-war premises: In the great-power contest for security andContinue reading “The Etiquette of Imperial Failure”
Bad Poetry Saturday
this will not do not without you no: without your eyes to alight color no more dances morning won’t vanquish night music no longer entrances what’s that you say? this soft night gleaming this city teeming with all those who just like you cry “this will not do” (this we call vanity) this too willContinue reading “Bad Poetry Saturday”
Bubba’s on the New Bowden Book
Giving up Israel for Lent; Dutton’s Bowden biography https://news.gallup.com/poll/657404/l… https://www.unz.com/ghood/the-prophet…
Bubba’s, 2-23-25
Live at 11:00 AM Pacific Flags, Rags and Fags A bill to redesign the Washington state flag, which features a portrait of the state’s namesake George Washington, failed to make it to the floor of the state legislature. House Bill 1938, sponsored by Rep. Strom Peterson, D-Edmonds, would create a committee to come up withContinue reading “Bubba’s, 2-23-25”
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Talking to Kevin Michael Grace. Kevin broadcasts on Rumble here.
The Digital Revolution: How it Started, How it’s Going
That Donald Trump will fail or betray his conservative white American supporters is a better bet than its opposite. But as it remains only a probability for now, at the moment I wish to praise him, maybe for the last time, for his under-appreciated destruction of “Barack Obama”—put in quotes here to indicate the failedContinue reading “The Digital Revolution: How it Started, How it’s Going”
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