Yearly Archive: 2020
Wednesday’s Child: The Grand Reboot
Stalin is said to have told Lenin’s widow, Nadezhda Krupskaya, that if she kept making a nuisance of herself he would “appoint another Lenin’s widow.” Similarly, Bashar Assad is the Kremlin’s exarch in Syria because the Russians have appointed him to this position, and if he continues to make a nuisance of himself he may be replaced with another, better Bashar Assad.
Homer: Episode 5
In this episode of Homer, Dr. Fleming discusses the value of the Greek religion from a cultural perspective, and begins to describe the qualities of the gods.
1000 Years of Jihad
This short but over-the-top video should compel anyone to buy this book, in print or in ebook. Order ten for family members. Order a hundred to give out at church–when you can finally go back to church. Don’t wait until it’s too late. Jihad could be coming to your town next. They’re here already! You’re next!.
The “Deplorable” Daniel Webster by Jerry Salyer
What is perhaps most significant about Daniel Webster is that – like every other remotely interesting figure – he lies beyond the pale of acceptable discourse.
The Corona Constitution, Part One of a Podcast
Stephen Heiner and Thomas Fleming begin their discussion of the political and constitutional ramifications of the “crisis.”
Jeremy Chiaroscuro Explains Advertising
I wanted to ask Mr. Chiaroscuro about some of the tricks he had used to propel faceless nonentities into the Senate and up to the White House.
Cracks in the Quarantine
Two weekends ago the weather was particularly lovely and, while I was out for a Sunday stroll in my neighborhood, what I had already been sensing over the previous weeks became crystal clear: Many Parisians were not abiding by the draconian rules of quarantine that had been laid down in March,
Introducing Jeremy Chiaroscuro by MacMillan Ross
Jeremy Chiaroscuro is one of the most important men in American politics. Not that he is a politician. Jeremy wants to be a puppet master and not one of the puppets whose only qualification is an insipid face and a case of hairspray. Like his one-time rival Carl Rogue, he was a protégé of the legendary Grant Blackpool, who until his premature death pioneered the science of hardball politicking.
Wednesday’s Child: Fringe Benefits
The Kremlin has seized the opportunity to advance the plan of tagging the population – “bio objects,” if the gentle reader recalls my post of July 11 last year, is the official term on the government’s websites – to turn its citizens into what we might call “smartserfs,” eventual inmates of a “smartgulag.”
