A lovely old Chestnut by Kate Paulik on the great folly of PC: political correctness in every incarnation I’ve seen is nothing more than lipstick on the Newspeak pig. PC has never – and can’t engage the root cause it purports to be about. Banning “racist” words does not magically make a bigot less bigoted.… Read More You Can’t Defeat an Idea
No matter how much you do, there’s a market that doesn’t. Good Article at the Daily Beast about why hating on the insipdidly-wholesome Netflix-reboot of the insipidly wholesome sitcom is probably more obnoxious than the show itself could possibly be: Was Fuller House ever going to come back with sudden comic intelligence? Razor sharp dialogue?… Read More Hating Fuller House is Like Hating Anchovies
That’s the edited version of this old invitation-to-greatness, which I found a useful tonic this morning: Think a scar (or a tattoo, for that matter) is permanent? It’s not. Your body was literally formed from stardust and will eventually return there. The duration of a scar doesn’t even register on the big time line. In… Read More The Universe Doesn’t Care About You
“Democracy is the principle that the common man knows what he wants and deserves to get it — Good and hard.” -H.L. Mencken Don’t believe the hysterics on Twitter. I predict that fully 70% of the soap-boxers re-tweeting #NeverTrump like they’re changing the world are going to come around. They have to: they care too… Read More If You’ve Ever Voted, or Considered Voting, for a Clinton, Then I Don’t Want to Hear You Moan About Trump
I don’t know who came up with this idea, or why she agreed to it, or why I find it so soothing. But it’s making the rounds so here you go…
Interesting discussion by John C. Wright: It is a meaningful sentence to say that the chance of a balanced coin landing headsup is fifty times out of a hundred because and only because the shape of the coin (it has only two sides) is known, and the factors that determine the fall of the coin… Read More The Meaninglessness of Probability
Step 1: Make money as an established genre fiction author, which is “not a real author” according to sad bastards who write lit fic about their feelings. Step 2: Buy a tank. Step 3: NOTHING. There is no third thing. You win at life. Plus, think about it. You would win every argument after that for the… Read More Larry Correia Discovers the Secret to Life
First, in honor of Pat Conroy’s passing, his own eulogy of his father, the Great Santini. The essence of it: We were raised by the men who made the United States of America the safest country on earth in the bloodiest century in all recorded history. Read the Whole Thing. Second, Ace of Spades reposts… Read More Two Reruns: A Moving Tribute and a Glorious Hilarity
So that’s one thing Trump’s accomplished, as his supporters will doubtless bleat. I will not support Trump if he is the nominee. I will not vote for him. The devil you know is still a devil, and worse yet: you don’t really know him at all. The Whole Thing. Read it.
Now Nick Searcy, hilarious actor from Justified and general-purpose insult machine, has apparently felt the ban hammer. Or maybe not. Twitter’s going Full Kafka on this, explaining its actions in broad bureaucratic generalities when it explains it at all, so who the hell knows. Basically, it’s a bad time to be an outspoken conservative on… Read More Twitter Continues to Do Whatever the Hell it Thinks it’s Doing…
