Oct 20 2022
Over time, one who is surrounded by horrors will become desensitized to them. The effect is magnified by the interleaving of those horrors with the rhythms and practices of “normal life.” It’s difficult to understand why that should be, but the effect has been confirmed by experience. My experience, at any rate. When …
Oct 09 2022
The PayPal version of a Kinsley gaffe, about which I posted Friday, has angered users widely. Apparently, the backlash has been voluminous – too great for PayPal’s managers to withstand and keep their annual bonuses. So they’re trying to walk it back: A red-faced PayPal walked back a shocking new policy announcement that …
Oct 03 2022
If you think for a living – I do – you’re constantly on the lookout for unities: themes that make comprehensive logical sense of what’s happening around you. You desperately want to find such themes, because without them, there’s little chance of making sense of the balls of chaos we call society and politics. …
Sep 30 2022
Whoever is writing Biden’s speeches is letting the truth show through the propaganda, and no mistake: Well, folks, you know — and I mean this sincerely; you’re going to think this is a little out of whack what I’m going to talk about — but, you know, democracy is at stake. Literally, there’s …
Sep 26 2022
“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.” – Vernon Law Winston Churchill’s treatment of World War II included a volume on the antecedents to the war titled The Gathering Storm. It was an appropriate title for an account of those years, as the follies of the …
Sep 25 2022
The following video is a snippet from a 1977 BBC interview of Sylvester Stallone about why he wrote Rocky. It’s both surprising and, to those who doubted his intellect, revealing: Stallone’s diagnosis of the cultural trends is dead on – and even more important for our time. Americans wanted entertainment that would resonate …
Sep 17 2022
The BLM rioters demonstrated that the “forces of order” were unwilling to enforce the law against them to maintain public order. Riots such as the ones that drove sociologist Charles Murray and other prominent conservative figures out of the halls where they were supposed to appear have reinforced that impression and emboldened the Leftists …
Sep 12 2022
If you know of Herbert Marcuse, the following Leftist definition of “liberating tolerance,” from his 1965 essay “Repressive Tolerance,” might be familiar to you. If not, read on! Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right and toleration of movements from the Left. As to the scope of this tolerance …
Sep 12 2022
Scene-setting, stage-dressing, “battlespace preparation,” call it what you will. It didn’t begin with Biden’s fatuous and inflammatory “soul of the nation” speech. It’s been going on for years. It can be traced back at least as far as the November 2000 election of George W. Bush as president. My fear is that it’s …
Sep 09 2022
And it’s no small amount: BREAKING: NY AG Orders Steve Bannon Perp-Walked in Front of Prostrate Media America is now a Purge Country pic.twitter.com/OF48Ep89jf — Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) September 8, 2022 Steve Bannon is no threat to anyone…except as a purveyor of facts and theses. But the vicious, utterly low-minded Letitia James, …
Sep 09 2022
… who, like me, would like to be equipped to defend yourselves in public: this is your “governor:” Everyone needs to do their part to combat gun violence. @AmericanExpress, @Mastercard & @Visa should categorize firearm purchases & flag suspicious activity – just like they do for millions of other transactions. Together we can help …
Sep 05 2022
The title phrase is a reaction, elicited from some, to the most “extreme” news. It’s the verbal equivalent of putting hands over eyes and screaming “Make it go away!” And sane Americans are having it ever more frequently. However, it’s dangerous. What makes it dangerous is the word can’t, which is always a …
Sep 02 2022
No, I didn’t watch or listen to it. I have a very low tolerance for political blather from anyone…well, other than myself, of course. But from the snippets I’ve been reading, it was at least as bad as We the Normals® expected it to be: America, ladies and gentlemen, is under attack and …
Sep 01 2022
If you don’t believe me, believe him: Joe Biden made a bizarre and passive aggressive comment targeting “brave right-wing Americans” Tuesday, during an political rally in Pennsylvania touting his latest gun grab…. Rather than attack Republicans in Congress who might oppose the initiative, Biden mocked all conservative Americans who support the Second …
Aug 28 2022
Joseph Sobran once composed an instructive parable that went something like this: Davis is listening to Jones speak of some injustice done to him by Smith. Davis waits until Jones runs down, and then says, “Oh, that’s all right. I forgive Smith for what he did to you.” How do you suppose Jones …
Aug 26 2022
You know it. If you’re a functioning adult you’ve almost certainly felt it: that sublime sensation when an insight strikes, and something formerly incomprehensible coalesces into perfect sense. I had it many a time when I was laboring in the STEM fields. It was always glorious. Allow me to ease into my subject …
Aug 20 2022
It’s none other than Libs of TikTok: These are the people teaching your kids pic.twitter.com/2xGO1UYM8R — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 9, 2022 This is but an item from the fringe of the transgender-evangelists’ madness. Madness, when both tolerated and celebrated, engenders further madness. The unwillingness to confront madness and label it as …
Aug 08 2022
And it’s Walt Disney Corporation: Walt Disney has been cancelled by Walt Disney. Here’s the back story: When Disneyland first opened in 1955, Walt Disney delivered a speech welcoming people to the happiest place on Earth. To all who come to this happy place: Welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here …
Aug 07 2022
YMCA? Perhaps not for Julie Jaman: Julie Jaman, an 80-year-old woman from Port Townsend, Washington, expressed her discomfort and fear when she encountered a male in the women’s shower area at the local YMCA. The YMCA’s reaction? Jaman was permanently banned from the facility, according to the Port Townsend Free Press. …
Aug 02 2022
A conversation that occurred between great jazz pianist Thelonious Monk and an aspiring musician provides three-fourths of today’s title. The young man played a sequence of notes to Monk, and asked him “What would be the right continuation?” Monk replied, “Wrong is right.” Another jazz icon, guitarist John Abercrombie, provides a similar anecdote about …
