American Jante
Pop singer Ariana Grande is on the cover of this month's Vogue, and, naturally, some folks have found something to complain about. Apparently, at least a few think that a deliberate effort to darken her skin color was made, presumably to look "black" (she is of...
Whence Morality?
Many times, I've come across arguments positing that morality cannot exist without religion, and variants thereof that assert that the tenets of Western law and civilization are themselves born of religious teachings (aka The Ten Commandments in the Public Square). I...
The Government And The People
Yesterday's blog post, Hating Our Heritage, drew a wide range of responses. Some (notably from people who rather obviously read only an introductory comment and not the post itself) were rather reactionary, arguing straw men and the points that they wanted to make...
Hating our Heritage
With Independence Day looming, Nike designed a patriotic sneaker, with the Betsy Ross flag, and started manufacturing for sale to the public. Colin Kaepernick, who's built a second career as a self-appointed influencer of all things race- and slavery-related, made a...
Eye Pollution, Revisited
San Francisco, the woker-than-thou epicenter of all things progressive, just broke new ground by banning the sale of e-cigarette, aka vaping, products. Ironically, you can still buy actual tobacco cigarettes in San Francisco, and buy them more cheaply than in some...
Ignorance and Fear
A few years ago, I proposed the banning of the spooky-sounding chemical 1,3,7-Trimethylpurine-2,6-dione, which has so infested our food supply that hundreds of millions of Americans suffer daily exposure. Not very libertarian of me, I know, but beyond that, I suspect...
Abandon All Responsibility, Ye Who Are Elected Here
Bump stocks, the mostly irrelevant "gimmick" that most people hadn't even heard of prior to the Las Vegas mass shooting, are back in the news, thanks to a lawsuit filed by the Gun Owners of America (GOA) (hey, NRA, learn a lesson here). That suit, ably discussed over...
Whistling At Dogs
An article that crossed my social media feed this morning highlighted (for me) a particularly insidious idiom that's become popular among some in the culture-politics scrum. The article, a "come to Jesus" exposition of a feminist writer's realizations regarding free...
Movement Corruptors
This month brings us a span of celebrations and events feting the liberation of the gay lifestyle, collectively known as World Pride. These celebrations, coming on the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, a two day demonstration against a police raid of the...
Basic Border Blues
When Donald Trump ran for office, there was nothing unusual about our illegal immigration issue. The height of the problem, such as it ever was, happened in 2005. We had less of an issue with illegal migration when the borders were unenforced. Then, migrant workers,...
Energy Straits
Yesterday, we teetered on the verge of a shooting war with Iran, something that neocons are salivating over, but something that the rest of the country has little stomach for. And, for what? To keep the Strait of Hormuz unmolested, i.e. preserve shipping lanes for...
Born of Sin
The question arises with increasing frequency and alarm: What's with this rekindled love for socialism? Socialism's variants killed over a hundred million people last century, kept billions in poverty, and destroyed liberty and human dignity around the globe. As an...
Do You Cilantro?
Some of my blog-spirations (if I dare elevate them to that level of sagacity) come from seemingly disconnected things that somehow connect themselves inside the labyrinths of my brain. One such occurred yesterday, where several disparate topics came into confluence. A...
Go Ahead, Burn That Flag
It's been often commented, in this blog and elsewhere, that Trump is ideologically untethered, that he shoots from the hip far too often, given the importance and power of his position, and that it's sometimes hard to figure out what he's thinking and wants to do....
An Anti-Vax Inflection Point?
Actress Jessica Biel, who grew from a tween to a Maxim cover girl on the family drama 7th Heaven, and has since put together a respectable television and movie career (and married Justin Timberlake to form a Hollywood power couple), found herself in the midst of quite...
Billionaires and Charity
MacKenzie Bezos, now-ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, made headlines when she got $36 billion as her divorce settlement, and then promptly made more headlines when she joined the Giving Pledge, an initiative whereby the world's wealthiest promise to give a chunk...
Down With OPP
Two bits of governmental action out of New York City serve to illuminate that which many of us already know: that progressivism spits on property rights. First, the (now) Democrat-controlled New York State legislature cobbled together a "strengthening" of the rent...
RTFM!
A modern colloquialism goes: "Read the fucking manual," or RTFM for short. Robert Mueller has given the nation the Bad-Finger, and told us to RTFM!. The book is closed on the collusion/coordination probe involving Russian election interference. But he wrote a manual...
Weaponizing Prison Violence
Paul Manafort, former Trump campaign manager and current federal prison inmate, is being moved from his current digs in Scranton, PA, (low/minimum security, which is typical for white collar, non-violent convicts) to New York City's Riker's Island, at the request of...
A Hamburger Tuesday…
The Mueller report, which some thought would end the "remove Trump" movement, one way or the other (haha, what naive fools we are!), has accomplished precisely nothing on that front. While none but the most slavering of the TDS hordes will continue to assert collusion...
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