Apparently, the first teaser for the 5th Avengers movie dropped recently. I haven’t seen it and I really don’t care, since I’m pretty much done with the MCU (unless there is very good word of mouth, as with No Way Home), but a friend of mine, a passionate Marvel fan, was feeling quite upset about … Continue reading Let Them Starve
Modern Cluelessness
Re-Post: Bullying Yard Sale
Typically insightful piece from Joseph Moore of Yard Sale of the Mind: Question: how did we all get so inured to bullying so described, such that probably a good 70% of us just go along no matter what. How did we come to even try to put up with bullying, rather than fighting back at … Continue reading Re-Post: Bullying Yard Sale
Thought of the Day: Power
We keep giving our rulers more power so that they can prevent anyone from having too much power.
Talking Bitcoin at ‘The Everyman’
My latest Everyman article went up last week (I was on vacation visiting relatives so missed sharing it 'out of the box'). This one delves into the topic of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general. The short version is that I think paying actual money for meaningless bits of data that only have value because people … Continue reading Talking Bitcoin at ‘The Everyman’
Tolerance and Totalitarianism at the Everyman
Another post up at The Everyman, here explaining why the diversity, inclusion, tolerance ideology is naturally and inevitably totalitarian. We moderns have a bad habit of not defining our terms. We like ideas that sound good and tend not to dig in deeper to try to pin down what they are actually saying. So we … Continue reading Tolerance and Totalitarianism at the Everyman
Flotsam
1. I am continually amazed, not just at how stupid, incompetent, and immoral our current societal elites really are, but also at the fact that so many of us continue to take them seriously. "Dr. Fauci says so-and-so." Okay, and why do you care what that careerist moron says, exactly? To say "I heard it … Continue reading Flotsam
No Aspirational Heroes, Huh?
Apparently, the star of the latest Marvel film - Shang Chi and the Ten Rings (yeah, I forgot about that movie too) - claimed that this is something he "didn't have growing up," namely an aspirational Asian or Asian American hero. Ahem: "Three weeks top of the US Box Office. I doubt you will be … Continue reading No Aspirational Heroes, Huh?
Friday Flotsam: Consequences
1. We really need to stop using the language of the other side. Among other things, I really hate when people use the term 'divisive' or list 'being divided' as one of the major problems we currently face. See, that implies that the dispute is the problem, not the content of one side or the … Continue reading Friday Flotsam: Consequences
‘Make Mine Freedom’
Allow me to present a startlingly accurate warning from 1948, back in the days when the American system actually tried to defend itself. https://videopress.com/v/GdRUxlfG?preloadContent=metadata You know, I have my own criticisms of the position taken by this short, but my goodness, it's refreshing to see it actually articulated, and pretty well too. Also, note the … Continue reading ‘Make Mine Freedom’
Thought of the Day: The Idiot Elite
It occurs to me that we are in such a strange position: we are, ostensibly, a non-hierarchical society (there's no such thing, of course, but that's what we claim to be), yet we are in fact ruled by a malleable class of 'elites' whose primary goal seems to be supporting each other while openly despising … Continue reading Thought of the Day: The Idiot Elite
Serpent's Den 