Game of Thrones made its mark upon the public consciousness with its mix of fantasy and intrigue but also with its premium-channel willingess to “go there” with sex and violence. Thematically, this has been shown in numerous instances of the Death of the Hero. Not only were Robert Baratheon and Eddard Stark shown to be… Read More Resurrection and Identity in Game of Thrones I – The Man of Ice and Fire
Good. He posted on Facebook that he said so, and reaped the whirlwind of idiot Facebook comments. He re-posts his post on the blog, with edits responding to each genre of protest, and it is a delight. A few delights: WHAAA! NO LABELS! You shouldn’t call people Trumpkins!” Forgive me No Labels Police. Writing out… Read More Larry Correia Won’t Vote Trump, Either.
Who is David Jaffe? A director of the God of War video game series (The director? Co-Director? Wait, I don’t care). And apparently the experience of making a series based on a doomed Spartan warrior bloodily defying the Gods has made him a grumpy feminist who hates prom (don’t they all?) Now, the first tweet… Read More When Did the Left Lose its Goddamn Mind? or, David Jaffe is a Glorious Winged Twit
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Share and Enjoy. So the question becomes, what are Republicans to do with a Republican party that would allow a progressive populist boasting Mondale’s trade policy and McGovern foreign policy — that is, a leftist Democrat that looks for all the world like an angry and retouched Circus Peanut — to carry its flag? And… Read More Jeff Goldstein: Let the GOP Go the Way of the Whigs. Time for a New Party.
Yes, I changed the theme again. I wanted some red. I used to have a Blogger blog devoted solely to politics, Revolutionary Nonsense. It’s been five years since I wrote anything there, but when the primary campaign produces its inevitable disappointment, I occasionally meander over there to see if anything from the time when I pretended I was… Read More And Now, Some Throwback Political Dudgeon
I’m voting for Gary Johnson. That means I don’t care enough about NotHillary to make NotHillary President. That means I’m a bad Republican, a bad patriot, and a dirty cuck. At least, so speaks the voice from the whirlwind of Twitter, right now. My thoughts are thus: And I mean that. I’m not playing the… Read More Observing the Election as a Disinterested Bystander
A kid tries to get him to sign “The Communist Manifesto” under the guise of an “economic textbook”. Cruz signs it with the note “Millions have died because of this.” Then shakes the young man’s hand and thanks him for coming out. Why anyone prefers Trump to this man, I cannot fathom.
There was a news item some time ago about a veteran who wanted to put a flagpole in his backyard and was denied by his HOA. According to Snopes, the political pressure arising from the controversey led to the HOA backing off. But a similar story arose late last year. Gary Pittman lives in Rock… Read More How To Hate Homeowners Associations, Build Flagpoles, and Influence People
The inestimable John McWhorter: It’s been a shoe that had yet to drop. The praise for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical phenomenon has been resoundingly unanimous. There are already plans for a touring production, one in London plus a sit-down production in San Francisco. Miranda has performed for the president. The cast album has won a Grammy,… Read More There are Never Enough Witches for the Witch-Hunters: Hamilton and Race-Flailing
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