Lileks at his profound best. While most blogs weren’t deathless examples of great writing, there was the opportunity for individualism, and you don’t get that from a Pinterest page. You don’t get it from a feed of things snipped and reblogged and pinned and shoveled into The Feed. The web turns into bushels of confetti… Read More If Blogs are Dying, We Shall Miss Them.
It appears that the man who gunned down three Muslim students at UNC-Chapel Hill was a Proggy Atheist.The police are now saying that the murder was over a parking dispute. Look, that may have been the trigger, but that was not the powder, if you receive my meaning. You settle parking disputes with passive-aggressive notes… Read More Atheist Violence
Here’s a snarky series of YouTube videos that doesn’t really answer that question: It’s no Mr. Plinkett, but it’ll do. Sort of.
Sound the bugle. View at Medium.com
This will likely go the rounds in the rightosphere, but I would be remiss if I did not pass it along. When a prog accuses you of being racist because you won’t admit how racist you are? Or that your denial of your racism is proof of your racism?That’s a logical fallacy called a kafkatrap:… Read More The Species of Kafkatrapping
I’ve had Joel Kotkin’s The New Class Conflict on my Kindle Wish List for some time. It’s dovetails with what I have long thought about the actual class structure of America for some time. I was rather pretentiously calling myself a “rebel against my class” back in college. But I hadn’t yet found that need to… Read More Mencken and the New Class Conflict
Back in 2011, Charlie Hedbo’s offices got firebombed by Islamists. I remember because I posted the offending cover to my old blog. I was “Je Suis Charlie” before it was hashtagged. This attack was worse in terms of body count, but I haven’t been as attached to the issue. All the usual suspects have said… Read More Blood, Madness, and Charlie Hedbo
In my pre-Christmas book splurge, I picked up Kafka’s The Trial, which has so far reminded me why I wait 1.5 decades between reading Kafka books, and Camus’ The Rebel, which has delicious bits of tasty absurdity. And deliberately so. One cannot be a rebel without a set of values to hold higher than the powers-that-be,… Read More Camus is a Rebel, and Custer is a Hero, and I Read Books
Should Christian Bakers have to make cakes for Gay Weddings? If you think they should, then should Gay Bakers have to bake cakes with messages in support of traditional marriages? Because Gay Bakers seem to think they don’t. This raises more questions. Should Jewish Bakers have to make cakes with Swastikas? Should Muslim Bakers have… Read More On the Cake-Baking Front of the Culture Wars…
Yesterday, Martin’s official Twitter account posted this: On the first day…House Tully came bearing gifts…#12DaysofWesteros pic.twitter.com/I2rll6fR70 — George RR Martin (@GRRMspeaking) December 10, 2014 Which prompted the Internet (and especially Reddit) to lose its damn mind. Because, 12 days from yesterday is December 21st, the first day of Winter. The next book in the series… Read More Confirmed: George R.R. Martin is Screwing With Us.
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