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Originally posted in January, after that month’s Muslim atrocity on the streets of France:  The “No True Scotsman fallacy” goes like this: Smith: All Scotsmen are loyal and brave.  Jones: But McDougal over there is a Scotsman, and he was arrested by his commanding officer for running from the enemy.  Smith: Well, if that’s right,Continue reading “Because you have to keep repeating yourself, apparently”

And why stop at the point fixed by the honorable Member for Oldham rather than at the point which would have been fixed by a Spanish inquisitor of the sixteenth century? When once you enter on a course of persecution, I defy you to find any reason for making a halt till you have reachedContinue reading “The Brown Inquisition”

Respectable media has coalesced around a liberal-progressive consensus that brooks no challenge from the right on “social issues”. Social media is dominated by youth and conflict. Maybe this is all we need to explain the trend toward the language of wholly unwarranted hyperbole at lefty sites emphasizing the “viral”–so perfectly, stunningly, adorably satirized in thisContinue reading “The Brilliant, Stunning, Perfect, Glorious and So Cute Mashably Buzzfed Style You’ve Got to See!”

At this rate ¿Jeb? will soon become the greatest leader of all time: Jeb Bush says he’s not reducing his presidential campaign, he is simply refocusing it with an eye toward the early caucus and primary states.“We’ve made an adjustment in our campaign,” Bush said Saturday before conducting a town hall in the pivotal stateContinue reading “Leadership!”

Born-Again Sexuality “Dreams of self-destruction, and probably many cases of suicide, are desires or attempts on the part of narcissistic individuals to give themselves a new birth by attacking themselves and thus bringing about self-fertilization.”–Theodore Faithfull, The Mystery of the Androgyne: Three Papers on the Theory and Practice of Psychoanalysis, 1938We’re not allowed to speculate anyContinue reading “Quote of the Day”

We’re told the migrant wave into Europe is a mass flight from a dangerous war zone. Of course, wrong-thinkers keep pointing out the migration appears to be overwhelmingly male. Young, healthy males at that. National Review is here to reassure us, using the selective sentimental anecdote method, that this isn’t a great “invasion” of Europe byContinue reading “Narrative Inversion, or, Lying Through the Media’s Teeth”

The uppermost idea with Hellenism is to see things as they really are; the uppermost idea with Hebraism is conduct and obedience.(…) The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience.  —Culture and Anarchy, Matthew Arnold The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along linesContinue reading “Trump Agonistes”