At every post that mentions the vaques, FB intrudes the tag shown in the picture below. While it is impossible to reply to the intruders, a rebuttal has been permitted and it gets copied and repeated. So there are ways to fight back, at least until FB decides to penalize every account that repeats it. …
Category: political combat
Jul 19 2021
No Remedy
It’s easy to castigate men long dead. It’s especially satisfying – for persons of a certain disposition, anyway – when those men have an achievement to their names that their critic could never have equaled. When the achievement is the founding of the greatest nation in history, the castigator has a hard time not …
Jul 01 2021
Today’s Democrats
This was recorded in the Ohio House of Representatives: That’s today’s Democrat legislators for you. No one who opposes their agenda, or who dares to impede the agenda of any of their mascot groups, shall be permitted to speak – or to be heard. I favor expelling them all from every position of …
Jun 23 2021
Everything’s Worse In…
SURPRISE! I shan’t finish the sentence begun in the title just yet. (Caught you lookin’ up in the air, didn’t I?) No, I was just recalling a joke I heard a long, long time ago, the central motif of which was that “Everything’s bigger in Texas.” I’m sure there’s more than one such …
Jun 19 2021
“On Conditions”
Way, way back at the dawn of history, when I was a wee lad and IBM still ruled the computer industry, I was briefly focused on learning a language that has since passed into obscurity. It was IBM’s “everything” language: PL/I. The computer giant had dedicated serious resources to develop a language that would …
May 13 2021
The Dam Is Creaking
Folly, the late Barbara Tuchman wrote in her book The March of Folly, is “knowing better but doing worse.” More lucidly if less lyrically, a fool is one who refuses to learn from his own mistakes. He persists in a course of action that has led him astray previously – perhaps on several occasions …
May 06 2021
Onus Of Criterion
A weird-looking phrase, eh what? I first encountered it in Michael Emerling’s recorded talk on “The Essence of Political Persuasion.” The tactic he described was a real eye-opener – and smashingly relevant to conditions today. The “onus of criterion” tactic relies upon your adversary’s unwillingness to admit that there’s no imaginable evidence that …
Apr 19 2021
Good Ideas Always Resurface
A long, long time ago, back when there was music on AM radio and I was a wee proto-engineer who spent his days correcting other people’s errors in Fortran (Fortran-66, mind you), a colleague commenting on a promotion we in the Computing Center were attempting urged us all to “Think visual.” He exhorted us …
Apr 17 2021
Pushing The Outside Of The Credibility Envelope
Courtesy of Weasel Zippers, we have this literally incredible story about Joe Biden’s “popularity:” Joe Biden approaches the 100-day mark of his presidency with a relatively strong job approval rating and the public continuing to express positive views of the coronavirus aid package passed by Congress last month. Moreover, nearly three-quarters of Americans …
Apr 07 2021
A Giggle To Start Your Day
Here it is, from the irreplaceable Maura Dowling: CAPITALIZING ON DEMOCRAT HYPOCRISY “Last week, our president decided to go on national news and basically disparage our state,” [Georgia State Representative Wesley] Cantrell began. “We have a new election integrity law here that we passed a couple of weeks ago, and our president, …
Mar 16 2021
Getting It Through The Thickest Heads
I have a graphic of which I’m particularly fond: It’s critical not to appear weak. Weakness invites disrespect. Weakness shown to an enemy invites a savage attack. Even if you’re secretly strong behind a facade of weakness, inviting disrespect is bad policy. Tempting an enemy to attack is lunacy. This is hardly rocket …
Mar 14 2021
Some Dark Thoughts
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.” – Originator unknown, though often attributed to Albert Einstein “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.” – Thomas Sowell, concerning the “War on Drugs.” “If what …
Feb 17 2021
A Critical Lexical Shift
Yesterday’s column by Mike Gonzalez illuminates yet another tactical stroke against American conceptions of equality: the substitution of the word equity, a quite different concept. The core of the thing: Equality is the standard of our old Constitution, the one framed in 1787 and amended since then, most memorably in the Bill of …
Feb 13 2021
Forked Tongues Dept.
I didn’t bother to watch any of the “debates” among the various Democrat aspirants to the 2020 presidential nomination. Thus I was unaware of much that took place in those exchanges that would later become items of controversy. Most recently, the following surfaced: Yes, Gentle Reader: Kamala Harris really did say all those …
Feb 11 2021
We Really Can’t Help It…
…we humans have a hard time separating people’s personalities and characters from our opinions of the ideas they espouse. We tend to assess the validity of a Cause according to the strengths and weaknesses of those who promote it: their public conduct, their cumulative reputations, and whatever we can learn about their pasts. The …
Feb 03 2021
Moral Agents And Leftist Strategy
I slept late this morning – that’s right, I snored on until the unGodly late hour of 4:30 AM — so I’m a bit behind on my news-reading. Nevertheless, our favorite Bookworm’s latest piece has stirred my mental cauldron, and I must “write it out” before it can divert me from my other duties. …
Feb 02 2021
Lessons from Fantasy- the wisdom of J.R.R. Tolkien
Many people know of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit;” younger folk are more likely to know his work through the film adaptations of his work, while old fogeys like me read and loved his stories in printed form first, then enjoyed the movies, too. Young or old, however, Tolkien’s …
Feb 02 2021
The Ethic Of The Left
Shamelessly stolen from 90 Miles From Tyranny: In what way is this incorrect? Indeed, the game-show metaphor could be extended: one contestant could cause another to lose points by calling him a fascist, a racist, or (gasp!) a Trump supporter. Hasn’t that happened often enough – and on network television, at that? …
Jan 30 2021
The Real Plague
New York State has suffered badly under the House of Cuomo. Emperor Mario was disastrous. I was glad to see him go even if his replacement was a centrist wimp. But Mario’s son Andrew is deadly and doesn’t care who knows it: What’s that you say, Andrew? It sounded a lot like this: …
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