Humpty Dumpty Goes to Kyiv
The first thing our rulers do, when they want us to approve some act of folly or aggression, is to change names.
Category: Feature
The Ukraine’s Got Electrolytes
The best reason to follow Facebook is the insight it gives you into the American mind, especially the bizarre mind of self-described conservatives.
Happy Joe Biden Day!
Presidents’ Day weekend includes Joe Biden. So Happy Joe Biden Day! And weekend. Do the most American thing you can: Go shopping. Increase the GDP. Or the GNP. Or the CPI. It’s fun!
Art For What’s Sake, Part VIII: The Artist
Are you saying that it makes a difference, what kind of a man the artist is? I mean a difference to his art.
Art for What’s Sake, VII: The Pornography of Violence
I brought up movies only because many of my favorites have a fair amount of violence in them, and you seem to be lumping violence with pornography.
Who’s Sorry Now?
The American ruling class and its frontmen in the media are indulging in one of their periodic orgies of anxiety. How can a known terrorist have been allowed to enter the United States, make his way to Texas, and terrorize a synagogue?
Art For What’s Sake? Part One
An untechnical conversation on the meaning of art, set in a Middle American saloon with pop music blasting over the speakers.
Restricting Self-Defense, III: Our Barbarian Roots
There was no justice for a murder victim without a family to demand vengeance. Before we rush to condemn the Germans as savages, we should recall that even at Athens during its Golden Age, it was the family’s responsibility to bring charges against someone who had murdered one of its members.
Restricting Self-Defense, Part II
Every animal seems to “know” the two commandments of nature: Survive and propagate, and each creature seeks to preserve its own identity and to transmit it genetic heritage through time.
