They’re Gonna Need More than One Exorcism

They’re Gonna Need More than One Exorcism

Even Jesuits are starting to realize there's no political solution to America's problems. House Chaplain Pat Conroy has done what somebody should have a long time ago and performed an exorcism on the US House chamber. The House chaplain has staged an emergency prayer intervention in Congress to cast out…
July 19, 201912 Comments
The Alabama Gambit

The Alabama Gambit

Taking the temperature of the room, most people seem burned out with politics these days. It's probably because if the Trump presidency has accomplished one thing, it's to convince most people that there is no political solution to our problems. The lack of urgency is why politics has gotten boring.…
July 18, 20197 Comments
Selling an Image

Selling an Image

I've been asked to compile this Twitter thread, which turned quite a few heads. The topic is newpub marketing, which tends to be popular with my blog readers, so I've reproduced it here. Most folks in newpub unconsciously stumble out of the gate by calling themselves indie *authors*. I know…
July 17, 20197 Comments
Church and State

Church and State

Over the weekend, Team Fedora Tipper got a couple of anti-Christian hashtags trending on Twitter. That's nothing new, since these people define their identity by their hatred of Christians. What is interesting about Christian-bashing on the part of internet atheists, and the Left in general, is how their rhetoric has…
July 16, 201910 Comments

Star Wars Is now Disney Fanfic

YoutTuber David Stewart explains why there is no longer any reason to pay the least bit of attention to the Disney fan fiction masquerading as Star Wars Disney Star Wars - it's not canon guys. It's unofficial. It's fan fiction. View it as such, treat it as such, talk about…
July 15, 201916 Comments
Humiliation Rituals

Humiliation Rituals

People have slowly started to notice a new fad gaining traction among our ruling class. Check your social media feeds or the entertainment news, and odds are you'll see a piece extolling the virtues of eating bugs. As if it had to be said again, you should never take our…
July 12, 201938 Comments
Hecklers vs Critics

Hecklers vs Critics

I've been getting a lot of requests for writing advice lately. Knowing how to recognize and take constructive criticism is among the most important skills a writer can master, so I've dug this post out of the vaults. Writers tend to be introverts. Most of us also crave external validation.…
July 11, 20192 Comments
Policy Rationale

Policy Rationale

Online dissident circles were abuzz yesterday with word that technocleric Mark Zuckerberg had issued a fatwa against the infidels on his company's index of Dangerous Individuals. The uproar broke out when alt-lite journalist Paul Joseph Watson discovered an ominous update to Facebook's community standards allowing threats of "high-severity violence" against…
July 10, 201918 Comments
Green Giant

Green Giant

My crypto-reader returns will a spiritual successor to the tale he shared last time. So, I was just out visiting my cop buddy in Indiana for the first time in two years, and he was regaling me with the backlog of Tales of Rural Police Adventures while we're out target…
July 9, 20193 Comments
Dark Age Fantasy

Dark Age Fantasy

Every religion provides its adherents with an origin story--an explanation for who the faithful are and how their creed came to be. Nu-atheism is no exception. Some would argue that atheism isn't a religion but a lack of belief. Science and logic prove this claim false. Human beings are wired…
July 8, 201911 Comments