To convince our young people they’re socialists, the left has had to define socialism as everything that is done in a group, from schools to roads, as though those hadn’t worked under every single regime since the Romans, or probably the Egyptians, long before Karl Marx’s misbegotten ...
The one and only tell is that I’m utterly wiped out by being around people too much — the definition of too much being way more than I’m used to — and I either have to get some time away (when I disappear from a con, I’ve usually run to my room to read or listen to mu...
That was because of their bizarre fantasy ideology combined with the strange Islamic eschatology to which they hold. These days if you bombed a mall the developers would probably thank you as they could collect the insurance money and get out of the business. The Hamas and Hamas adjacent types...
First, at whatever time you drag in: Yes, I’ll be finishing Rhodes to Hell (I HOPE TODAY). Yes, I’m up because Indy needed food and every time I ignored him, he’d run downstairs and I got tired of trying to figure out what the crashes and drags were. I’ll tell you someti...
Left alone, the French mimicry would have run through its course, and gone back to a king and stayed that way, though maybe more in the manner of the English monarchy with some French twists. Except the elites installed the Marx patch. No? Oh, please. As far back as you look, you ...
* always exceptions, no such thing as an ideology with no bad people in it Imaginos1892 July 29, 2021 at 2:21 pm That’s one of Niven’s Laws: “There is no cause so noble that a few shitheads won’t follow it.” Ian Bruene ...
Our national moment is mired in sunk costs. And our sunk costs are much worse than normal because humans live longer than they used to, and, thanks to technology (and the technology that started this was poking a stick into the ground and dropping a seed