This is actually old content, a short story I burped out one cold dark afternoon and self-published in a notebook-collection called World’s Apart (by which I mean, I had the damn things printed at Kinko’s. This was before I had ever heard of Createspace). Since I started a new collection on Medium, I was scouring my… Read More Yet More New Content: In Winter.
I have long been fascinated by the Crusades, the Crusader states, and the military orders. Piers Paul Read’s The Templars is a magisterial book that fits in well with the newer generation of Crusade historians (good-bye, “ambitious younger sons”, hello “pious armed pilgrims”). The Templars, of course, met their brutal end before the Middle Ages were… Read More New Content: Demon-Killing and Caliphates
Discharged from the Naval Reserve after testing positive for cocaine? Regrettable. But to begin disbarrment hearings? That would require conviction of a crime. Prosecute him? For Cocaine? Why would we do that?
Spengler hits his usual note about the dullness of European civilization, post-nationalism: the tribes of Europe had their folly baked into the cake of their culture during the dark ages. In his view, Isidore of Seville and Gregory of Tours are the “Bialistock and Bloom” of Europe, inflating these upjumped Germanics with the desire to… Read More Why Do Europeans Hate Jews? Who Cares?
I’ve never even heard of 90% of this Best of the 80’s list. Therefore, they’re wrong. But they know more about music than I do, because they know and have listened to these albums. Therefore, they’re right. But they’re a UK mag, meaning their judgement only makes sense according to the British 80’s scene. And… Read More Best Albums Lists are Always Wrong. Always.
He switches from praise to insult without skipping a beat or changing tone. Of course, this could only happen at the Clios because advertising execs are entirely comfortable with having the scorn of the chattering class with their dinner. They make illusions for others, and so have none. Whereas the earnest dorks at the Oscars,… Read More Is Seinfeld’s Clio Speech the Greatest Award Acceptance Speech of All Time?
Still waiting on Decider to give us another “Disasterpiece Theater“, so instead I’ll link this cruel fellow beating the dead horse that is Highlander II, a film I haven’t even seen (because I never saw the big deal about the first one, but whatever. Geek does not require explanation). This is what sometimes happens when… Read More Let Us Perform Cruel Postmortems On Legendarily Bad Films: Highlander II
Daddy Warpig has the details. It’s tempting to read too much into this and declare victory. But even if this is as bad as it gets for the SJWs, it’s still far below what they intended to achieve. In any event, this isn’t over. SJW’s maybe lifelong converts to a cause, but gamers are not… Read More GamerGate Scores: Intel Pulls Ads
First, the lovely indictment not just of Senator Landrieu, but of all that she represents: Second, a detail exposition of his poltical conversion: This man is going to be pilloried. He’s going to be called Uncle Tom, Oreo, race traitor, inauthetically black. That has been standard operating procedure on the poltical left for decades. It’s… Read More It is a Good Day to Meet Elbert Guillory
Lists! Lists all the time! Here’s what I have to say in response to this paint-by-numbers men-are-icky listicle: 1. They know how to wire 17 devices through one surge protector… Is that difficult? Put the plug in the socket. This is beyond female ken? Really? 2. But have no idea how to put down the… Read More Oh, Good. MTV is Getting into the Buzzfeed Market.
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