Originally posted on According To Hoyt:
I’ve been listening to If This Goes On in audiobook while I clean the house. I still think that Heinlein was right about the coming theocracy – that is he was right about the theocratic impulse that he saw in the American people. I see it too. It’s what…
James Lileks says good-bye to his beloved Jasper, and as someone who still remembers fondly the dog of his youth (McGee, Bane of Moles, Scoffer at Chain-Link Fences), I was moved beyond the capacity to write anything useful in response. And what’s the point anyway? Everyone who’s had a dog understands; no one else could… Read More The Passing of a Dog
This was supposed to be January’s Post, but I didn’t get around to it. There will be a February post as well…sometime in April, the way things are going. I’ve been meaning to address this scene, from Issue #2 of The Star Wars, but I was waiting for it to get addressed. I’m waiting for Annikin… Read More January Comic Book Post: The 70’s Punching You Right in the Face
Care of: The Best Article Every Day. Some of these, worth knowing.
There’s a Democratic Congressman in jail right now. He hasn’t resigned and is basically doing government work from his jail cell. Which is a cornucopia of metaphorical possibilities, but more important is what he’s in jail for: Domestic Violence. I’m just gonna sit here and wait for the calls for his resignation to resound throughout the… Read More Feminism for Thee, But Not For Democrats
I first read Ayn Rand in college, and enjoyed her insofar as she expressed things I had previously pondered but never fully articulated. Her philosophy attempted to wed Aristotle with dialectical materialism, and I’m not entirely sure how well she pulled it off. But she did hit upon some under-spoken truths in her major works,… Read More The Discreet Charms of the New Class
Strategy Games For Change | Bit Creature. There is no better way to understand an historical period than by putting yourself in the center of it. The best way to understand the Middle Ages is therefore to play Crusader Kings II. And that’s what I’m going to tell my wife the next time it keeps… Read More Crusader Kings II Gets the Middle Ages
On the Flipboard. I call it Things to Read. In this issue: Victor Davis Hanson’s “An American Satyricon” Robert Stacy McCain’s “The Columbia Journalism Review is (Still) Decadent and Depraved” Jessica Khoury’s “Is It Science Fiction” An excerpt from Jordan Belfort’s Memoir, “The Wolf of Wall Street” And much much more (well, more anyway)!
Like a Bandit, I made out. Like a bandit. The list: William Shakespeare’s Star Wars – Still reading it, and while i detect clunky moments, when it’s on, it sizzles. Two Gentlemen of Lebowski – A friend of mine summed it up as “so much more spot-on than necessary.” I concur. World War One: A Short History – “In four… Read More The Yuletime Haul of Books: Trenches, Emperors, and the Knave Doth Abide
Sarah Hoyt addresses the elephant in in the doublet: Anyway, so every author agrees Henry VIII as a young man was a true renaissance man, good at everything and so very good looking. And every author wonders what dread disease caused him to turn not just into a murderous tyrant, but a stupid murderous tyrant… Read More Henry VIII and His Desperate Dynasty
