“May it please milord hero, the world is not what we wish it to be. It is what it is. No, I have over-assumed. Perhaps it is indeed what we wish it to be. Either way, it is what it is. Le voila! Behold it, self-demonstrating. Das Ding an Sich. Bite it. It is. …
Category: America
Apr 13 2025
Our Degeneration
First, let’s have a clip from an underappreciated movie: Among the reasons for my admiration of Victoria Jackson is her willingness to accept small, unattractive parts like that and play them to the hilt. But let it rest for now. I am alternately amazed and appalled by the depths to which we …
Mar 16 2025
Concerning “Criticism”
About an hour ago, I saw a Facebook post that consisted of a single graphic. That graphic said: There are 194 other countries than the United States. If you hate America, just leave for one of the others. To which actor Kevin Sorbo replied that “Criticism is not hatred.” Now, Sorbo’s statement is …
Jan 01 2025
A Beginning-Of-Year Summary
There are enough people composing end-of-2024 summaries, don’t you think, Gentle Reader? So let’s try something different: looking forward instead of rearward. Who knows? Maybe, if we summarize 2025 optimistically and enthusiastically, the Flying Purple Shaft will be grounded due to excessively good weather and Murphy will take that long-overdue vacation. Besides, if the …
Nov 25 2024
The COVID Lockdowns: A Remembrance
In the summer of 2020, when the entire nation seemed to have gone mad with fear of the COVID virus, some Long Island retailers gave only lip service to the draconian lockdowns, masking dictates, and “social distancing” requirements. They published the “rules,” but put little or no effort into imposing them on their customers. …
Oct 27 2024
A Questionable Closing
I often find that I agree with a commentator’s main point but am puzzled by one of his assertions. This is most often the case when the assertion at issue is about “us:” the American people. We’re a variegated bunch. Generalizations about us tend to be rather weak and fraught with important exceptions. Part …
Sep 26 2024
Is There Still A Nation Called The USA?
Given the behavior of its “protectors,” you have to wonder. Twenty years ago, I wrote: In mid-2004, there was born a Website which proposed to hold an international plebiscite on the upcoming American elections. The thesis was that since what the United States does “affects” the entire world — yes, those are …
Sep 04 2024
The Sartorial Scene
Do you have a consistent mode of dress? I do, and I’d bet most Gentle Readers do as well. Moreover, I’d bet that your mode, as does mine, arises from the sort of life you lead: what you must do during your typical day. I’d bet further that you seldom “dress up” in conventional …
Apr 22 2024
Disorientation Or Disoccidentation?
The United States of America rose to world dominance for reasons that the bien pensants of academia would like to obscure and efface. Rather simply, it was the ideal of individual freedom, which unleashed the creative and productive energies of men as never before, coupled to Christianity and its ethic, which restrained men’s predatory …
Mar 26 2024
Is it just me
Or is there anyone else out there who reads an article like this and thinks “Nothing I can do about it. I hope they hit D.C.” So what is to be done? Well, we can vote the bums out, but even if we do, all too many Republicans are just as squeamish as Democrats about …
Jan 19 2024
This is being done on purpose
Denver’s hospital system my collapse. Key note: 8,000 illegal aliens counted for over 20,000 hospital visits. TWENTY. THOUSAND. HOSPITAL. VISITS. WITHOUT A SINGLE DIME BEING PAYED BY PEOPLE WHO ARE IN THIS COUNTRY ILLEGALLY. This is being done on purpose. The people running the Biden administration want the system to collapse. It’s part of their …
Jan 03 2024
The Method Remains Unspecified
This recent column from Victor Davis Hanson nicely sets out the major indicators of impending national collapse. He’s also candid about the absence of an evenhanded rule of law when political questions or prominent politicians are involved in a controversy. He leaves no question about the international consequences of such a collapse. I read …
Dec 22 2023
I Can Hear The Anguish In This Man’s Voice
Malcolm Pollack asks a painful question: [I]s there no point at which kinetic war against people who hate you and seek to subjugate you is justified? As stewards of the American nation we inherited from our forebears to preserve and cherish, and now crumbling before our eyes, where does our duty lie? A …
Dec 08 2023
Delusions And Stability
Delusions are often functional. A mother’s opinions about her children’s beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth. — Robert A. Heinlein I’m still on the mend, but a little better, thanks for asking. Maybe I’ll be able to speak audibly by New Year’s Day. It’s ambitious, …
Dec 02 2023
This Is America
Presented without comment: …because it brought tears to my eyes. May God bless and keep you all!
Oct 04 2023
The American Way to Resist
Courtesy of According to Hoyt. I’m inclined to think this method is uniquelyAmerican. ‘Course, I’m also descended from a LONG line of Americans of Scottish Appalachians, on my Daddy’s side. The term, cussed (pronounced Cuss-ed) applies to all of them. Stubborn, to a fault. I remember my Dad telling me of a relation of his …
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