Broadcast Note

Update: No broadcast tonight.Subscribe to my YouTube channel I’ll be livestreaming this evening around 9PM Pacific.Tomorrow I’m going to attempt a live interview on location with James LaFond, “Baltimore’s violence guy, who is in Portland.James teaches fighting techniques and writes prolifically on violence and other things. Here’s Kevin Grace’s interview with James from a couple of yearsContinue reading “Broadcast Note”

Woke is not Funny, Funny is not Woke

“Does anyone remember laughter?”–Robert Plant The Guardian pokes the corpse of comedy to see if it needs bayoneting: Comedy is in a period of extraordinary flux. The past two years have witnessed the reputations of revered comics, such as Louis CK and Aziz Ansari, implode in the wake of #MeToo allegations. Then there is the culture ofContinue reading “Woke is not Funny, Funny is not Woke”

After social justice, all comedy is barbaric

Is there a future for comedy? For culture?Louis C.K. insists on plying his trade as if there is Protestors gathered in response to Louis C.K.’s arrival at the San Jose Improv on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019, and a man was punched in the face, as the controversial comedian began his first West Coast appearances since hisContinue reading “After social justice, all comedy is barbaric”

Gaseous Nationalism

For a bought-and-paid-for Russian agent, Trump sure isn’t acting like it Nord Stream 2 is the 1,222-kilometer pipeline being laid in the Baltic seabed which will greatly increase delivery of natural gas from Russia to Germany. It will double Germany’s import of Russian gas when complete. But the Trump administration has repeatedly voiced its objection toContinue reading “Gaseous Nationalism”

Pozzland Dispatch: Boys Will Not be Boys

The instantly notorious APA “Guidelines for emasculating Psychological Practice with Men and Boys” (full PDF here) is a concern-trolling operation, claiming to address the crisis of men not seeking help because of their own toxic masculinity. I mean, if you can’t trust a coven of gender theorists, guys, who can you trust? “Though men benefit from patriarchy, they are also impinged upon byContinue reading “Pozzland Dispatch: Boys Will Not be Boys”

White Westerners as the Eternal Other

Nationalism is trending globally. It isn’t just manifesting in elections, it’s expressed, without self-recognition, in western identity politics. Minority groups within nations are beginning to identify as separate ethno-nations, albeit confusedly (and mostly obliviously) using the language of liberalism or globalism. What passes for a civil rights movement in America now is in fact vociferousContinue reading “White Westerners as the Eternal Other”

YouTube FUBAR

YouTube has suspended livestreaming on my YouTube channel, probably for a copyright violation, after terminating a broadcast mid-stream last night (“due to a copyright match, your stream was interrupted”). Restrictions can last 90 days. No further word from YouTube. The appeal process around that appears limited to getting permission from copyright holders. It’s all vagueContinue reading “YouTube FUBAR”

Things come together; the fringes cannot hold

The question looms silent over the caterwauling and self-congratulation: how will the ascendant coalition of the fringes manage things once they’ve run out of white men? Aside from losing the focus of their demagogy–as long as one Pale Male breathes, they’ll manage–there is the problem of just who is going to run things once the onlyContinue reading “Things come together; the fringes cannot hold”