It is a slow Friday, and many of us, as we should be, are off the internets and at the lakeside or park. Yesterday we had thoughts of the country, its past […]
Restoration
Diversity Is Our Weakness
Diversity is our weakness. Diversity is the process of giving special consideration to those who have favored demographic or biologic characteristics or who have non-procreative sexual desires. Now you might think it […]
I Defy You To Watch This And Not Smile
Time to lighten things up a bit, if only for a day. First, a palate cleanser, before we get to the main event. This, and a slew of other similar videos, proves […]
The Week In Doom — Killing Ourselves Randomly Edition
Item The two recent mass shootings were by an extreme environmentalist and an extreme socialist. Not sure most of the media has made this clear. https://t.co/UPH7cN4x2Q pic.twitter.com/MhvSmKwSP3 — Matt Ridley (@mattwridley) August […]
The Week In Doom — Scottish Gingerbread Person Edition
Item From the London Times, a quotation from the print edition, 30 November this year, the “arts” section, page 4, on a PR piece about some screen thot who appeared in a […]
In Opposition To Scientism
Bo and Ben Winegard start their Quillette essay (thanks to K.A. Rodgers for the tip) “In Defense of Scientism” by saying “Truth is always provisional”. Is that proposition true, or merely provisional? […]
How’d We Do On Our 2019 Predictions?
A strong no prize this year. Nobody did well enough. Not enough specific predictions, or those that were specific did not come to pass. Doom predictions are too easy: they needed to […]
The Magician and the Cardsharp — by Karl Johnson
This post, which could use some better writing, originally ran on 5 June 2009. But it’s a lot of fun. The Magician and the Cardsharp: The Search for America’s Greatest Sleight-of-Hand Artist […]
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