There’s no refuge from the tide of “woke” in entertainment. You’d think the British would have better sense, but apparently that’s not the case. The newest season of the BritBox series Hope Street, which centers on a police unit in a seaside Northern Ireland town, has become drenched with it. Hope Street isn’t a glossy …
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Sep 28 2024
The Frontier Of “Woke”
In case the coverage missed you, Gentle Reader, it’s “minor-attracted persons:” After local outcry canceled a camp for “minor-attracted persons” set for last weekend in Vermont, several organizations are publicly defending those who declare a sexual attraction to children. MAP Union, or MU, which represents itself as “an international organization representing the …
Sep 28 2024
Wishful Thinking Dept.
In a column that reports on a crazy “professor” decrying Shakespeare as a symbol of “white supremacy,” Lincoln Brown deposeth and sayeth: There is no shortage of funds and support for black, brown, or native people to make their own movies. Let us have a new version of “Arrow to the Sun” made …
Sep 25 2024
About That “Reality” Stuff
Two contrasting theses: Go, said the bird, for the leaves were full of children, Hidden excitedly, containing laughter. Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind Cannot bear very much reality. [T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets] …the bird is mistaken. A man can endure the entire weight of the universe for eighty years. …
Jul 31 2024
Triumphalism
The obscenities and blasphemies during the Olympics’ opening ceremonies have apparently galvanized significant resistance to the previously unstoppable march of the LGBTQ forces. Of course, those forces are trying to act as if nothing out of the ordinary has occurred. They must; they didn’t expect that decent persons would rise up on our hind …
Jul 28 2024
A Few Words From Seneca Lake
I’m rather far away from my usual keyboard, so please pardon any typos. The world, or a great part of it, is agog over the grotesquerie committed on the 2024 Olympics opening night. Billions, quite literally, were insulted and demeaned. The odds are that you, Gentle Reader, are one of them. First: Yes, it was …
Jul 24 2024
A Small Victory — Numbers of Warriors Matter
How would you like your purchasing rights restricted by unseen forces putting pressure on your financial institutions? Well, I didn’t. And for now I’ve put a stop to one of mine. It’s a dead certainty I could not be the only customer who complained. I have no idea who or how many, but I am …
Jul 02 2024
Providing The Decent Reason To Speak Up — Continued
My attempts to embed the one minute clip (31-32 minutes of the embedded video at the bottom) would not take. I suggest clicking the link below this paragraph so you don’t need to search for it. https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkx3oS9rls82aUBD1IUBQefxSsGeFoKtYpm?si=X8_ustIrlmzxYE4S What Eric Kaufmann, a rare conservative social scientist, concludes at the end of that minute provides readers who …
Jun 20 2024
Lunatics Have Taken Over No. 2
Appeals Court Revives Lawsuit Against Oklahoma’s Ban on Changing Sex on Birth Certificates. This series originated with the thought that lunatics were being given permission to take over. However, there appears to be quite a few people in black robes who any decent person would rather not have to engage even in casual conversation. Given …
Jun 19 2024
Lunatics Have Taken Over No. 1
Federal Appeals Court Rules Against Middle School Student Who Wore ‘Only Two Genders’ T-Shirt So far it’s affirmed that the title of this post is correct regarding The school The district The local court Some on the First Circuit Court of Appeals There is still hope that the infestation has gone no higher.
Jun 05 2024
Yes, Christians are being attacked by our government
Here’s exhibition one thousand and something. It’s too many to really keep count. The Daily Caller reports that Harlow is 75 years old. She is wheelchair-bound and suffers from Hashimoto’s disease and back pain that requires her to use a wheelchair. She is hardly the picture of a fiery, dangerous activist. Her attorney asked the judge for …
Apr 29 2024
The Status Nightmare
Sometimes I stare at the computer, listening to some meditative music, and wonder why things are so difficult, why it feels like every day is a Herculean battle against all odds, when the real story is just “I’m designing and building some UI for my boring corporate employer.” That’s something I’ve been doing for 25 …
Apr 19 2024
“Give The People What They Want!”
The title is a watchword – the supreme watchword – in the television industry. Or perhaps I should say that it was, once upon a time. Things have definitely changed. You’d think that giving the prospective consumer what he wants would be a maxim for all of commerce. How can you sell something …
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 …
Mar 08 2024
“Let The Bodies Hit The Floor!”
Nothin’ wrong with me… Nothin’ wrong with me… Nothin’ wrong with me… Nothin’ wrong with me… Oh fudge…who do I think I’m kidding? *** Courtesy of Ace’s long and detailed piece of yesterday, I’ve only just become aware of what he’s styled “GamerGate 2.0.” You may recall the original …
Mar 08 2024
What Must Be Said
If we can’t bring back the idea of personal agency and responsibility for one’s actions, along with a societal moral code of right and wrong, we are doomed. — Weird Dave at AoSHQ Bravo. It cannot be said too often or too loudly. But note that the Left, principally through its “DEI” and …
Jan 20 2024
Sports Illustrated is done
The entire staff is getting laid off. I used to read SI on a regular basis, both in print and online. But way back in the first Bush administration I noticed the Leftism creeping in. Reporters are notoriously Leftist, and sports reporters are the worst of the lot. There’s a reason that ESPN is so …
Jan 04 2024
Closing The Escapes, Defiling the Heroes
The Totalitarian Prime Directive is simple: Permit no escape. After all, the evidence is copious that oppressed and subjugated people will flee if they can. Therefore, the totalitarian must block all escape routes, station men with guns at each of them, and shoot those who attempt to breach them as an example to others. …
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 04 2023
Speaking of transitions
I’m old enough to remember when almost everybody thought that grooming young children for sex was a bad idea. A University professor has claimed kids should be exposed to adult genitalia to prepare them for the possibility of seeing a naked trans person, in a shocking jab at swimmer Riley Gaines. Of course it’s a …
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