I need to fight the futility…..
More in a future episode…
~MRDA~
Attack the System- GOP senator apologizes after boos for ‘two sexes’ remarks 18th May 2022by Brad Dress The Hill Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) apologized on Monday after she was booed by a crowd during a commencement address at the University of Wyoming for saying it is a “fundamental scientific truth” that there are only “two sexes.” Lummis said “it was never my […]Keith Preston
- Famously Cheerful Trader Joe’s Workers Are Actually Unhappy and Want a Union 18th May 2022By Paul Blest, VICE The grocery workers are the latest to join the revitalized labor movement, along with workers at Amazon, Starbucks, and Target. Employees at a Trader Joe’s store in western Massachusetts are attempting to form the grocery chain’s first union, they told their CEO in a […]Keith Preston
- Biden Goes Off Deep End, Blames Tucker Carlson for Tragedy in Buffalo 18th May 2022Biden just went completely off the deep end when several reporters started badgering him to blame Tucker Carlson for the tragedy in Buffalo.Keith Preston
- GOP senator apologizes after boos for ‘two sexes’ remarks 18th May 2022
- Samizdata
- How not to convince people 17th May 2022I am an atheist – I don’t even seek any cover in the “foxhole” of agnosticism, or pull the “religion isn’t true but it keeps the plebs in line” sort of argument that I have sometimes come across. Full disclosure: I am a confirmed Anglican but fell away over the years, primarily because I could […]Johnathan Pearce (London)
- Lend-Lease 2.0 explained 16th May 2022An interesting demystification by the excellent Perun…Samizdata Illuminatus (Arkham, Massachusetts)
- “Who said the ‘N’ word?” 16th May 2022Natalie asked, “Can you guess what Lufthansa is talking about here?” For a bonus point, can you guess what word, beginning with ‘N’, the German policeman is prohibiting here? … Jewish passengers were confronted by a layer of armed police who stood between them and the departure gate. In a scene that conceivably would have […]Niall Kilmartin (Stirling)
- How not to convince people 17th May 2022
- Wisdom Dancer
- Systems indoctrinate, deprecate questioning and doubt, produce reactive citizens, and blame them(An extension of a few points I mentioned in this video {link TBA} concerning education.) So-called educational systems teach young students what to believe, how to behave, and perhaps skills deemed necessary—not to question. (To a considerable degree, teaching what … Continue reading →Wisdomdancer
- Excerpt: a chorus of the living, an orchestra of echoesA brief excerpt taken from Book III of Volume I of The Constellation of Man. These metaphors, like others I use in the book, introduce realism concerning the novelty of our personal appearance on preconstructed stages of history and human culture, atop mind … Continue reading →Wisdomdancer
- The Liberating Value of ReconciliationTwo things amaze me, again and again, about American enthusiasm for rancor in politics. I. Vengeance welcomes and relishes any opportunities to humiliate or oppress one’s opponents, but shows no foresight of how this creates a precedent—a legal and cultural … Continue reading →Wisdomdancer
- Systems indoctrinate, deprecate questioning and doubt, produce reactive citizens, and blame them
- Mr. Mean-Spirited
- VISITING THE REMAINS OF BENJAMIN DECASSERES IN TUCSON 31st May 2021by John GrauerholzThere are particular geographic locations that, for one inexplicable reason or another, seem peculiarly enchanting. Certain places resonate with certain personalities. There is, somewhere, a precise scenery that speaks to your soul. No matter how many times I visit Arizona, the city of Tucson has always been an endlessly enchanting landscape. Not a […]Mr. Mean-Spirited
- YOUR OWN MEDICAL RECORD WILL BE USED AGAINST YOU 29th April 2021by John Grauerholz Your medical record is something that will always be used against you. Your medical history only exists to record your physical humiliations. A doctor is not there to cure you, but to cause you as much consternation as possible. A physician’s role is not to heal a patient of your ilk, but […]Mr. Mean-Spirited
- THE FUTURE OPPRESSES US 24th March 2021by John Grauerholz It is the future that persecutes us. The communitarians would have us break rocks all day long to bring forth a better world in the decades yet to come. Activists for the long-threatened paradise will not leave us alone – these advance-men will harass and hassle us whenever we attempt to enjoy ourselves […]Mr. Mean-Spirited
- VISITING THE REMAINS OF BENJAMIN DECASSERES IN TUCSON 31st May 2021
- The Hoover Hog
- In Praise of Delicious Tacos 30th May 2019The writer presently known as Delicious Tacos is responsible for, among other things, a series of short confessional narratives that chronicle his agonizing ordeal with an anorectal abscess. That micro-memoir of butthole affliction – the "Ass Variations," as I have...chipsmith
- In Memoriam! Adam Parfrey 19th May 2018A few years ago I was interviewed by Greg Johnson of Counter-Currents Publishing and I banked off one of his questions to talk about some of the publishers who inspired me to start up Nine-Banded Books way back when. Here's...chipsmith
- Book Journal – "How to Judge People by What They Look Like" 19th May 2018The title cracks me up. I mean, it could have been something vaguely academic -- maybe Physiognomy Reconsidered, or Physiognomy: The Abandoned Science; or it could have been something suggesively literary, like Body and Essence or A Book by Its...chipsmith
- In Praise of Delicious Tacos 30th May 2019
- Wandering Near Sawtry
- A Review of Ed West’s “Small Men on the Wrong Side of History”… 21st February 2020One might think that few people were more annoyed by the 2019 British general election than the conservative author and commentator Ed West. Here he was, preparing to publish his book Small Men on the Wrong Side of History (Little, … Continue reading →bsixsmith
- In Defence of Andrew Sabisky… 16th February 2020The first time I met Andrew Sabisky we walked through central London for hours and neither his energy or my interest flagged. This is a rare combination. There are people who can talk for a long time and there are … Continue reading →bsixsmith
- 2019 14th December 2019I began this decade in London, a physical wreck, mentally ruined, almost friendless and facing the grim realisation that not only was “creative writing” a titanically stupid course to pick but my writing sucked. As bad as all this was, … Continue reading →bsixsmith
- A Review of Ed West’s “Small Men on the Wrong Side of History”… 21st February 2020
- Razib Khan
- War – part 2: the making and unmaking of man 15th May 2022When the engine of human progress has nothing left to give (part 2)Razib Khan
- Nick Patterson responds to Feldman and Riskin’s NYRB piece 13th May 2022Nick Patterson has responded on his Substack to the NYRB piece Why Biology is not Destiny, which itself is an attack on Kathryn Paige Harden’s book The Genetic Lottery. Patterson […]Razib Khan
- War: the making and unmaking of man 13th May 2022The origin story of violent human competition (part 1)Razib Khan
- War – part 2: the making and unmaking of man 15th May 2022
- Entitled to an Opinion
- The Apotheosis of Captain Cook vs How “Natives” Think 13th May 2022The subtitles of the books by Gananath Obeyesekere and Marshall Sahlins are, respectively, “European Mythmaking In The Pacific” and “About Captain Cook, for Example”, which isn’t quite as funny separated from the title. I didn’t title this “Gananath Obeyesekere vs Marshall Sahlins” because I haven’t actually read the earlier works by Sahlins that Obeyesekere initially […]teageegeepea
- Alvara de Menard on social science 2nd May 2022I’ve linked to What’s Wrong with Social Science and How to Fix It before, but as with Sid Jha on Robert Moses, I keep forgetting who wrote it and where to find it. In this case I should give a hat-tip to “The Chaostician” in the comments at Astral Codex Ten for reminding me.teageegeepea
- Prelude to Foundation 12th April 2022The only Isaac Asimov I had read prior to this was his non-fiction essay Not as We Know It: The Chemistry of Life (which I still like to link to) and a critical review of Orwell’s 1984 noting how it should be too dysfunctional to be an effective surveillance state. My plan had been to […]teageegeepea
- The Apotheosis of Captain Cook vs How “Natives” Think 13th May 2022
- Evolutionist X
- To Critical Race Theory, or not to Critical Race Theory? 5th July 2021Like the uncollapsed quantum state holding Schrodinger’s cat in a state of simultaneous life and death, whether a school is “teaching critical race theory” or not seems to depend entirely on whether the inquiring person wants them to. Are you anti-CRT? Then, you may rest assured, American schools most certainly aren’t teaching CRT. (If you […]evolutiontheorist
- Review: Seven Pillars of Wisdom, by T. E. Lawrence 26th June 2021Wisdom has built her house; she has set up its seven pillars. — Proverbs 9:1 T. E. Lawrence is the Lawrence, of Arabia, and Seven Pillars of Wisdom is his autobiographical account of his time spent serving in the British and Arab armies during World War One. If you’ve seen the movie, you’ve got the […]evolutiontheorist
- Review: Lawrence in Arabia 10th June 2021Scott Anderson’s Lawrence in Arabia is, quite obviously, about the famous T. E. Lawrence “of” Arabia. The book ranges significantly wider than Lawrence’s personal account, however, shifting between the perspectives of Ottoman officials, German spies, American spies, Zionist spies, and of course British spies. I read this book concurrently with The Berlin-Baghdad Express, so my […]evolutiontheorist
- To Critical Race Theory, or not to Critical Race Theory? 5th July 2021
- Human Stupidity
- HIgh school teen faces 10 years in prison for sexting female classmate 23rd March 2022HIgh school teen faces 10 years in prison for sexting female classmate Teen sexting case highlights severity of N.C. sex offender laws A North Carolina teenager faces felony sex crime charges after police discovered sexually explicit photographs of a sixteen-year-old girl on his cell phone. Cormega Copening is a seventeen-year-old high school student at Jack […]Human-Stupidy (Admin)
- Vote counting corrupted in USA, infiltrated by dishonest leftist activists 15th October 2021Formerly honest and unbiased vote counting is another institution infiltrated with and taken over by leftist activists. Leftists think deception is virtuous to reach higher goals. Dishonest partisan election officials “cured” problem ballots. This must be exposed, opposed, reversed. Continue at Sincerity.netWait, there is more! This article continues! Continue reading »Vote counting corrupted in USA, […]Programmer
- Afghanistan cannot fit the mold of white Christian democracy 25th August 2021Afghanistan is not Germany nor Japan. Afghanistan cannot be rebuilt like these nations were rebuilt after world war II, with the Marshall plan. To posit insurmountable cultural, religious ethnic differences is taboo to the point that Trillions (one million million dollars) are spent for impossible fantasies of nation building, to turn Afghans into Americans, Germans, […]Programmer
- HIgh school teen faces 10 years in prison for sexting female classmate 23rd March 2022
- Der Geist (Union of Egoists)
- Malfew Seklew Pronounces Proletarians in Purgatory 11th May 2022Sirfessor Malfew Seklew takes on the Social Democratic Federation as reported in Justice Saturday for August 9, 1902. DEBATE, Sunday, August 10, at 6.30 p.m., on “Meadows,” Edinburgh, between GEORGE DOULL (S.D.F.) and MALFEW SEKLEW (the Apostle of Atheogism), on “Why the Proletarians are in Purgatory.” ANARCHISTS IN EDINBURGH. DEAR COMRADE, In your last issue […]Trevor Blake
- Dora Marsden for the Prosecution 4th May 2022SOUTHPORT ELECTION SEQUEL POLICE COURT PROCEEDINGS The Southport Police Court was crowded today when John Aspinall, Peter James Halsall and James Sumner were charged with assault by Miss Mary Gawthorpe, Miss Dora Marsden and Miss Mabel Capper, suffragists, and there was a further summons brought by Miss Dora Marsden and others against Councillor Dr Arthur […]Trevor Blake
- SA1227 | Speakers’ Corner Anthology | ed. by Jim Huggon 2nd May 2022This new edition of the underground work is the first time it has been in print in 40 years. Expanded with an updated introduction, index and illustrations. Speakers’ Corner in London’s famous Hyde Park has been an oasis of free speech, and this collection highlights many of the eccentric figures and philosophies espoused there. Available […]Kevin I. Slaughter
- Malfew Seklew Pronounces Proletarians in Purgatory 11th May 2022
“Wisconsin Death Trip”
I have a book with this same title – about life and death in the frontier days, mostly illustrated with articles from local newspapers. Now I’m curious and must download the song…
Oh crap – sorry, I thought I was updating in MY lj! Will delete & repost…
Oh, it’s no problem. Twas an interesting and substantial post….heheh
heheh…. I’m feeling more lucid than usual this morning, after a rare 8-hour sleep.