A British writer of comic fiction named Howard Jacobson complains in The Guardian that media outlets reporting on the record-setting rates of child casualties among Israel’s civilian victims in Gaza invokes the antisemitic “blood libel” of the medieval era: It says something for the conscience of the Church of England that, in 1955, it putContinue reading “Israel Slaughtering Children, Jews Hardest Hit”
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No Country for Bold Men, Part I
When the State Allied with Anarchists to Outlaw Political Protest in Portland Deeply unpopular Portland District Attorney Mike Schmidt is on the way out after losing an election primary in May; he was defeated by his lead prosecutor, Nathan Vasquez, who ran to the vast right of his radically progressive boss. The win has been hailedContinue reading “No Country for Bold Men, Part I”
Conspiracy Theory, Conspiracy Practice
There’s an episode of the Simpsons where the family buys its first computer, prompting Homer at one point to say something like “don’t worry, the computer will think for us now”. Yet again the show proves prophetic. Science magazine on a recent study looking for ways to make computers think for us via AI: BeliefsContinue reading “Conspiracy Theory, Conspiracy Practice”
Noticing and Nothingness
Steve Sailer’s Lifetime Achievement Award I come to bury Sailer, and to praise him If you’re reading this you probably know who Steve Sailer is, but if you don’t he’s a former marketing executive whose interest in genuine racial diversity (as opposed to the “Diversity” of “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion”) led him into journalism inContinue reading “Noticing and Nothingness”
The Assumption Assumption
Via Steve Sailer, the story of maybe the most egregious Me Too takedown yet, of open software innovator Richard Stallman. From Jack Baruth “Wait,” some of you are saying, “that’s right! Jeffrey Epstein had a rape island! I’d forgotten all about it, what with Epstein’s convenient suicide and some remarkably media-friendly mass shootings occurring right as justiceContinue reading “The Assumption Assumption”
Portland and the Trans-valuation of Values
Via James LaFond’s blog, here’s Portlander Tony on Saturday’s citywide political dispute: I believe your pioneering efforts in the art or crowbar fighting have begun to gain some converts here in Portland. Antifa smashed a guy in the head downtown yesterday with a crowbar. Too bad no video. The boys in black masks are gettingContinue reading “Portland and the Trans-valuation of Values”
The Purge’s Progress; Hell Hath No Fury Like a Sissy Scorned
You’re never going to believe, grandchildren, what it was like under the Tyranny of the Twink. The homosexual bullies of the present test my sympathy for the bullied homosexuals of the past. As well they should. It’s a tired trope to say the past explains the present–and questionable. More often we should look to theContinue reading “The Purge’s Progress; Hell Hath No Fury Like a Sissy Scorned”
A Purge’s Progress
“If you are reading this I’m already dead…” Nick Monroe on being banned from Twitter for the Orwellian offense of “ban evasion”: You’re reading this because I’m gone now. Twitter permanently banned me for a “ban evasion” lasting three-and-a-half years. They say my account – which amassed almost 50,000 followers and has appeared on numerous news websitesContinue reading “A Purge’s Progress”
"Well, ackshull-eee…"
Pat Buchanan, in cataloging the vortex of demagogy that is the still-young 2020 Democratic campaign for the presidency: At the end of a week where he withdrew his nominee to head Immigration and Customs Enforcement and saw the departure of his Secretary of Homeland Security, Trump, referring to the 175,000 migrants apprehended crossing the U.S. borderContinue reading “"Well, ackshull-eee…"”
Portrait of the Current Year
This photograph is the Democrats’ dilemma, distilled. At twenty percent of Democrats blacks punch above their weight. But they’ve earned their group privilege by way of, to put it nicely, screwing up. Black dysfunction–crime, professional mediocrity, poverty–is converted into political power by demagogy aided by the religious commandment that black problems all result from whiteContinue reading “Portrait of the Current Year”
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