A False Flag on a False Flag on Ukraine
“A false flag operation is an act committed with the intent of disguising the actual source of responsibility and pinning blame on another party,” according to the authoritative propaganda source Wikipedia.
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Platitude of the Day
I am forever seeing posts and columns by conservatives who speak of the need to defend the democracy established by the “founders” of America. The United States were not founded as a democratic nation but as a confederation of republics run largely by educated aristocrats.
Biden’s Trump Derangement Syndrome
Make sure you see all the video of Biden’s 1/6. It’s short, 24 minutes, because they won’t let him give long speeches. The event finally unleashed his raging TDS – Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Carl Sagan’s Endarkenment
On FB and elsewhere I have been reading tributes to Carl Sagan from people who praise him for his prophetic insight into America’s cultural decline. In fact, Carl Sagan was a primary symptom of American cultural declin
White People Fighting
There is much about popular culture I struggle to explain and most of what I cannot understand I do not desire to learn. But I do think I have put my finger on the reason Yellowstone is so wildly popular.
Will there be a Christian World in the Future?
We see hurried people that come and go, avoiding giving the slightest importance to what is happening around them.
Wednesday’s Child: An Old New Order
A university friend of mine, Peter Baldwin, whose book on the pandemic I mentioned here some months back, has just come out with another. The title is Command and Persuade: Crime, Law, and the State across History. Were I a libertarian, it would always sit on my bedside table, next to a tome of Ayn Rand and a sepia print of the Unibomber in a silver frame.
Utopias Unlimited, Conclusion
Gilbert was himself, a man of no particular party. He was as suspicious of progressive levelers as he was contemptuous of the conservative defenders of entrenched interests.
Utopias Unlimited, III: Slaves of Duty
There is nothing wrong with duty, but, under the sinister influence of Immanuel Kant, the public morality of the 19th century was dangerously deontological, that is, duty-bound.
Jerks 01.B: Peter Pans
In learning how not to be a Jerk, the hardest part is to listen to criticism from friends and colleagues who may be bigger Jerks than we are.
