Monthly Archives: July 2020

#OrcLivesMatter

     Nothing is immune to Social Justice, it seems, with more “geeky” hobbies and pastimes often getting hardest hit, particularly since “geeks” and “nerds” tend to have more formal education from Leftist-dominated institutions. This has been the case, also, with Dungeons … Continue reading

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Cancel Culture Is About Imposing Privilege And Power

     It has been noted that “cancel culture” (or as George Orwell might put it, “unpersoning”) is arbitrary and capricious since there are no generally understood rules of what is or is not acceptable, which is especially pernicious when not only … Continue reading

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News of the Week (July 12th, 2020)

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Firing Line Friday: How Does It Go with the Black Movement?

     In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.      Racial animus has long been a topic of debate. A discussion with Huey P. Newton, along with Patricia … Continue reading

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Quick Takes – When All Lives Don’t Matter: Non-Woke Dean’s Lives Don’t Matter; Hate-filled Cambridge Professor’s Life Does Matter; White Lives Don’t Matter

     Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.      The focus this time: All lives matter… except for THEM!      First, a little mood music: … Continue reading

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When Everything Is Racist All Anti-Racism Is Arbitrary And Capricious

     The usual rejoinder to “when everything is ______” is usually “than nothing is”. However in reality, the actual response is far more insidious. In reality, when everything is racist, just as when everything is a crime, actual enforcement based on … Continue reading

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Mandatory Wokeness In Academia

     Ah Academia, what was once (and in many ways still is) the repository of civilization and society’s achievements is increasingly the faunt of poison that is slowly killing America (and Western Civilization, more broadly).      We have already seen how college … Continue reading

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George Floyd As The Queen Of Diamonds

     One of the gravest errors of much of the conservative movement was to see a disconnect between the Gramscian marched institutions and the “normalcy” of society, at least as they experienced it. With that came the foolish idea that “it … Continue reading

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News of the Week (July 5th, 2020)

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When in the Course of Human Events…

Action of Second Continental Congress, July 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America WHEN in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them … Continue reading

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