Facebook is pretty much dead for social networking but it does fill in something of the role that message boards used to fill, letting people share information about niche interests like (in my case) local fishing and dining. Lately the algorithm has been feeing me information about mushrooms, I suppose because I like fishing and […]
The media is blaming the Republicans for Ukraine losing the war. There are lots of reasons to hate Republicans and maybe their refusal to fund Ukraine without a quid pro quo is one of them, but the fact of the matter is Ukraine has been losing the war for about a year now, and the […]
In late November or early December there was a major vibe shift regarding the war in Ukraine. On social media the pro-Ukraine accounts stopped gloating over Russian casualties and actually started acting as if the grim realities of attrition warfare mattered. Now that the Battle of Avdiivka came to an end there is another shift. […]
I’ve argued that atheism is a zombie ideology, i.e. an ideology that has outlived its usefulness but still runs amuck eating brains, but these guys argue it was never useful even for its own purposes: The context is that atheist apologist Peter Boghossian of Street Epistemology fame has been increasingly realizing that the left is […]
There is a common belief that C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia is a surreptitious effort to get children to accept Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior under the auspices of a Lion. I never quite bought into that, seems too trite. For his part Lewis always insisted that Aslan is not an allegory […]
Is the American Empire weak or strong? The following would suggest it is weak: The following would suggest it is strong: Regarding the last point: imagine you get in a time machine and go back to 17th century Europe. You try to convince the King of France that in order to improve his GDP (which […]
The most right wing movie I ever saw was the one where Tom Cruise went to Japan and became a Samurai. I was shocked but not offended (it takes a lot to offend me, probably a character flaw). Instead of walking out I stayed in the theater to see where this train wreck was headed. […]
By October the bluefish and bonito have taken off for warmer climes in the South and by November the striped bass have headed towards their Chesapeake spawning grounds. That is when schools of fat mackerel come back to the harbors to attack the silversides and whatever longfin squid are still hanging around. So you decide […]
A zombie ideology is an ideology that has long outlived its political usefulness yet continues to run amok eating brains. In this blog I’ve defined Reaganism, atheism, and Progressivism as zombie ideologies. I have no problems with Jews. I have problems with the state of Israel, but no desire to see its collapse. My sympathies […]
I always take Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s descriptions of Islam with some salt, she carries a lot of resentment towards her former faith and I have no way of knowing if her experience is indicative of the whole, but when she describes her youth under the influence of the Moslem Brotherhood you can see some issues: […]
Truth and Tolerance 