I just stumbled upon this rather revealing bit of dialogue between a company president and a new hire. Please read it. What was the president trying to say to his new hire, albeit without actually saying it? Every workplace possesses a culture of some kind. Newbies are expected to learn what that culture …
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Mar 08 2025
Grok 3 On Trump’s Gordian Knot Moves
I refer you to Fran Porretto’s excellent Knots which fully engaged my own thoughts. It prompted me to seek some deeper thoughts from AIs. Brave’s LEO under-performed. But X’s Grok actually laid out a quite thorough analysis. I asked Grok 3: In what ways could Trump’s moves revive classical liberalism as a legitimate party. Assume …
Jan 23 2025
Another school shooting that the media will ignore
The legacy media, also known as the Democrat-Media Complex, loves them a school shooting that they can use to attack the right. If it’s white people shooting up kids or people of color, the calls for gun control will ring from the Left before the bodies have even cooled. However, I’m guessing that this particular …
Jan 17 2025
Common Scheme: Subtly Introduce Perversions To Naifs and The Unwary
Gentle Readers: In order to revive the best parts of our cultural legacy and protect any of it that still remains, the following summary of behavioral observations must not be shrugged off. I have written, most recently here, about the mechanism social engineers use — specifically induction — to attract small segments of humanity to …
Nov 13 2024
Signposts To A Cultural Restoration?
“Politics is downstream from culture.” – Andrew Breitbart Pastor and writer Paul Anleitner thinks he sees a few: I don’t study politics, but I do study culture, and here are some of the signs that a cultural shift has been brewing for years in America that most of the professional political analysts just …
May 11 2024
Quirks Part 2
I’d hoped to stir up a little mud with yesterday’s piece, but it seems ‘twas not to be. Ah, well. My evening provided additional fodder: an object lesson in the importance of being wary around people who don’t know about your quirks. Among the topics that I’m personally sensitive about is the Christian …
May 10 2024
Quirks
A few days ago, retired SEAL and writer Matt Bracken posted this on Gab: I assented vigorously, which triggered this query: What morals do the 96% agree on? It’s not a trivial question. The use of the word morals, with its sexual overtones, clouds the subject somewhat, so in this context …
Apr 13 2024
The Culture War: Dispatches From The Front Lines
Two years ago, Matt Walsh was still near the beginning of his What Is A Woman? campaign. He wasn’t yet widely regarded as a vanguard combatant in the conflict over transgenderism. Today his name is closely associated with that conflict, and for good reason: he’s absolutely forthright about his position: Note the shocked …
Apr 09 2024
Why The Decent Must Counter The Screams
The Progressive movement has always known the importance of the scream. Conservatives have, for the most part, been identified as the base of the “Silent Majority.” Indeed, we’ve had it beaten into us as a matter of pride that “we are not like them” by high minded voices such as William F. Buckley Jr. Well, …
Jan 30 2024
It’s Been Tried Before
Several times, really…and it hasn’t worked, ever: Days after closing a deal with Albania to hold part of the migrant flood there while awaiting asylum processing, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is trying to limit the number of arrivals in the first place, by a new partnership with Africa. She unveiled a …
Jan 08 2024
Quarter Pound Opinions
Yes, I’m still recovering. (I’m told this whatever-it-is can hang on for many weeks. Something to look forward to! 😒) As my energies are low and the news has been both repetitive and monochromatic, a short while ago I decided to page through my archives in search of something worthy that I could repost. …
Dec 22 2023
I Was Going To Take The Day Off…
…until I saw this piece at Power Line. As I have a huge disdain for “wine snobs,” it immediately elevated Steven Hayward to my Pantheon of Heroes. A brief “tasting:” Talking about wine lends itself to the same kind of silly jargon that has justified the fraud called “modern art” (an oxymoron if …
Dec 01 2023
Omission Statement
There are many in the right who feel we’re not making progress. Given that the political milieu hasn’t budged since the inauguration of the Usurper-in-Chief, I can understand the feeling. But in point of fact, we’re advancing “upstream,” in the battle over the culture: “Entertain first, not messages,” Iger said at something called …
Aug 08 2023
What Remains To Be Seen?
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. – Originator unknown Have you ever heard someone use the phrase “That remains to be seen” to dismiss an argument someone else was making? If you’re above-average eloquent, perhaps you’ve used it yourself. It’s a polite way of doing an impolite thing, much the same …
Jun 16 2023
Homelands Part 2
Everyone is born somewhere. Well, today at least; that might change if we ever become a spacefaring species. But for the moment, each of us has a birthplace in some Earthly land. The majority of us live our whole lives in that land, vacations and business trips notwithstanding. Some striking fiction has been …
Jun 02 2023
Sociopolitical Impossibilities
Many years ago, a wise man named Rev. William J. H. Boetcker wrote these lines: You cannot bring prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You …
May 25 2023
The War And The Bastions
I do like that word bastion. A form of it, Bastian, is also a man’s name, and a most complimentary one at that. A bastion is a stronghold, a difficult-to-assail redoubt that stands athwart the enemy’s campaign. The enemy must be sure to reduce such strongholds completely before continuing on with an invasion, for …
May 16 2023
Chronicles Of The Collapse
Via Arthur Sido: The leader of Minnesota’s Democratic Party says he is calling an emergency meeting this week to “ban individuals engaged in violent assaults” from its ranks after a tense confrontation erupted over the weekend at an event to nominate candidates for a Minneapolis City Council seat. The showdown between supporters …
Mar 27 2023
Undoing The “Not Done”
I hope John Ross, the author of Unintended Consequences, won’t mind the following lengthy excerpt from his book: Joe Columbo was a well-guarded organized crime boss who operated in New York in the ’60s and ’70s. In 1972, a mob rival paid someone to murder Columbo during a New York parade. Knowing that …
Feb 15 2023
I Think I’m Leaving
No, not Long Island. This planet, if possible. But to where? Anywhere else that’s safe from this: In this age of reboots, perhaps it was inevitable: A beloved (by its target audience) and also reviled (by a sizable group outside the core demo) character getting a new look and relaunch. All of which …
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